ONlit Team

To support Ontario educators in the intermediate grades, ONlit has created two new resources to support fluency instruction. In the Fall of 2024, the Grade 8 Changemakers series was released.

In August through October of 2024, ONlit hosted an eight-part book study for Ontario educators. Following Deb Glaser and Susan M. Smartt’s book, Next STEPS for Literacy Instruction: Connecting Assessments

This winter and spring, ONlit hosted a dynamic six-part book study designed specifically for Ontario educators teaching Grades 3–8. Centred on Dr. Heidi Anne Mesmer’s Teaching Skills for Complex Text,

Nellie Caruso has been a French Immersion teacher from 1999 to 2015 with the York Region District School Board and since 2015 with the Toronto District School Board. At her

Melissa Monette Smith currently works with the York Region District School Board. Over the last 17 years, she has held many positions, teaching grades 3-8, Special Education, Regional Literacy, and

Congratulations, Ontario educators! This week marks the completion of Ontario’s first-ever beginning-of-year early reading screening window, a crucial milestone for literacy in our province. This early screening initiative follows the

Leigh is a Grade 4 French Immersion teacher at the Trillium Lakelands District School Board (TLDSB) in Muskoka. She has been a strong supporter of the shift towards evidence-based literacy

Meet the dedicated educators of ONlit, driven to empower their peers with evidence-based, systematic, and explicit instruction that supports Ontario’s new Language and Français Curricula. In this series of blogs,

To help principals share important literacy information with parents and caregivers, we’ve prepared ready-to-use content that can be easily copied and pasted into a school newsletter. These short, engaging pieces

This school year, Catherine Shawana, a member of Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory, continues her commitment to First Nations education as a Grade 8 teacher at Lloyd S. King Elementary School on