Text Selection Criteria
This printable tip sheet for educators is designed to help you select the most appropriate text for your learners.
Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension
This download includes a set of 6 graphic organizers designed to support students in building their reading comprehension skills.
Reading Tiered Fidelity Inventory 2.1
School Leadership Teams need to know how well their MTSS for reading is implemented in their schools. The Reading Tiered Fidelity Inventory (R-TFI) Version 2.1 is an assessment leaders can use to assess the fidelity of instruction across all tiers of instruction.
Comprehension: Helping English Language Learners Grasp the Full Picture
In this 45-minute webcast from Reading Rockets, Cynthia Lundgren & Kristina Robertson explore the role of vocabulary in reading comprehension and provide practical strategies for improving reading comprehension for Multilingual Learners.
The Power of Text Sets
In this 2-page handout from Achieve the Core, you will learn all about text sets: what they are, why they are important, where to source some, and how to build your own.
Teaching Text Structure
In this overview from Reading Rockets on teaching text structure, you’ll learn about the 5 most common text structures (narrative, descriptive, expository, procedural/instructional, and argumentative/persuasive) and their features and how to help students learn to identify and use text structures in their reading and writing. The article also provides downloadable printables that can be used…
Syntax: Somewhere between Words and Text
In this International Dyslexia Association Perspectives article, Nancy Chapel Eberhardt discusses instructional practices to teach grammar and syntax with a focus that will increase the reader’s understanding of complex texts. This article will give educators examples of how to use a Function-Based Instructional Approach in their classrooms, including sentence expansion, using because but so, and…
Reading Comprehension Development and Difficulties: An Overview
In this International Dyslexia Association Perspectives article, Kate Cain explores the topic of reading comprehension and how language skills develop. The article explains how vocabulary acquisition, understanding of sentence structure and how sentences work together, the ability to infer and integrate information, and building a mental model of the text’s meaning while you are reading…
Supporting Reading Comprehension Development
In this International Dyslexia Association Perspectives article, authors Jane Oakhill and Kate Cain explore the factors supporting reading comprehension beyond basic decoding and suggest critical skills that should form the core of literacy instruction and interventions to support poor reading comprehension. The article outlines which skills are critical, such as teaching specific vocabulary words, how to…
Debout comme un grand cèdre
On apprend le nom des animaux ainsi que les enseignements qu’ils ont à nous offrir. Tissées à même la culture et les enseignements liés à la terre, ses histoires mettent en valeur les notions de respect, de persévérance, de guérison et de réciprocité. C’est un livre lu à voix haute. On vise la sensibilisation à…
Les bas du pensionnat
Les Bas du pensionnat raconte la vie d’une petite fille inuvialuit de l’île Banks, âgée de huit ans, qui a fréquenté le pensionnat. Malgré les brimades des autres filles qui fréquentent l’école et le racisme des enseignants, Margaret réussit à apprendre à lire. Elle aime lire et se promet de ne pas se laisser intimider…
Voici Tom Longboat
Tom Longboat a été nommé au Panthéon des sports canadiens et la journée. Un texte accessible, des illustrations en couleurs, des notes historiques et des chronologies qui fournissent encore plus d’information sur le parcours de Tom Longboat (1886-1949) et sur ses incroyables réalisations. C‘est un livre lu à voix haute. On vise la sensibilisation à…
