Elections come with their own vocabulary, jargon and challenges. They can be intimidating to a learner who is not familiar with the process. Elections are also a great opportunity to build literacy skills.

This Election How to Kit includes literacy activities that you can do with adult learners around the election. There are suggestions for activities that will:

• Inform learners
  
  
• Help learners realize that their voice and vote count
  
  
• Develop vocabulary used in elections
  
  
• Encourage learners to take an active role in the upcoming election

There is also a section on Learners Take Action for Literacy that gives suggestions for ways that learners can lobby candidates around the issue of literacy in their community and constituency.

Have fun!