This newly updated book (Third Edition) is a great resource for teachers of all grades looking to support their students’ reading comprehension. It’s particularly helpful for instructing students who have learning difficulties, but is a valuable read for all educators. The book includes chapters on […]
Talk Moves are sentence starters and gestures that teachers and students can use to invite everyone into the conversation and encourage academic thinking. Learn how to create a classroom culture of talk and incorporate talk moves in your class through this Talk Moves PD Series. […]
Whether using something new, successful implementation takes intentional planning and time. Implementation is not an event but a process involving multiple decisions and actions. Although implementation can take longer than we hope or anticipate, its process and trajectory can be predicted and shaped using a […]
These posters highlight a decoding strategy adapted from the IES Practice Guide Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4–9. Two versions are available – a double sided 8.5 x 11 copy with sample educator language for modelling the strategy, and a larger 24 x […]
Fluency is essential for skillful and motivated reading, but is often misunderstood. Fluent reading is NOT fast reading! Jan Hasbrouck defines reading fluency and clarifies the link between fluency and comprehension.
This printable template, with boxes for each syllable, can be used to support students in spelling multisyllabic words.
This webinar unpacks key recommendations from the IES Practice Guide Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4 – 9.
In this brief video, Nancy Hennessy shares insights into the elements of comprehension and how educators can facilitate comprehension for students through Structured Literacy instruction.
With each week’s episode of Reading Road Trip, host Kate Winn recommends a picture book created by an Indigenous author or illustrator. Catch up with the books recommended from Season 3, and consider adding some to your library today!
Season 3 of Reading Road Trip wraps up with a jam-packed episode featuring Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden. Kate and Amanda have a wide-ranging conversation about the science of learning and human behaviour – how do children learn new things? From the instructional hierarchy to incremental rehearsal, […]
The Instructional Hierarchy is a model of skill acquisition. The hierarchy has been researched for decades – when we learn something new, we move through a series of predictable stages. Educators need to be aware of the instructional hierarchy since we are most effective when […]
This spiral-bound book is a collection of formal and informal assessments covering phonological awareness, phonics, decoding and word recognition, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension, including the CORE Phonics Survey, often recommended as a diagnostic tool to be used after universal screening to help identify gaps. Assessments […]
