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Learning through Literacy

By ONlit Last updated 2026/02/17

Description

Learning Through Literacy is ONlit’s approach to integrated structured literacy instruction aligned with the Ontario Language Curriculum. Each grade level includes a selection of connected practices that show students how language, literacy, and curriculum areas work together through engagement with meaningful, Canadian content. Across the resource, educators will find features such as high-quality mentor texts, explicit vocabulary routines, structured writing supports grounded in the thinkSRSD approach, fluency practice, and contextualized syntax lessons drawn from authentic texts.

The collection is growing, so not every grade includes every element. Additional components will continue to be added across our project year.

Curriculum Connection

Learning Through Literacy supports the Ontario Language Curriculum (2023) and content-area curricula by embedding structured, explicit reading and writing instruction within meaningful disciplinary learning.
Grade(s): 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Topic(s): Explicit InstructionFluencyLiteracy Block PlanningVocabularyWriting

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