Joan Sedita, founder of Keys to Literacy, explains the two key steps students need to learn in the revision process when writing: thinking critically about what they have written and how they can make improvements and proofreading.
Joan Sedita, founder of Keys to Literacy, talks about how using “mentor texts” — short pieces of literature students can read and reread for specific learning purposes — can help students become better writers.
Motivating young writers is not always easy, says Joan Sedita, founder of Keys to Literacy, but some strategies include giving students opportunities to work collaboratively, encouraging students to write about topics that are meaningful to them, and teaching students the power of writing to an […]
Joan Sedita, founder of Keys to Literacy, talks about the four main stages of writing: thinking, planning, writing, and revising and the fact that the more time and effort students put into the first two stages and the last stage, the better their writing will […]
Passionate about integrating the science of learning into your pedagogical practice? Catch up with the materials and recordings from Jim Hewitt and Nidhi Sachdeva’s series, focusing on selected chapters from How Learning Happens by Paul Kirschner and Carl Hendrick. The series focuses on six theoretical foundations […]
This video demonstrates how to pronounce letter sounds when teaching reading. When children are learning to read, they need to blend sounds as they decode. Teachers need to ensure that the sounds they are modelling are sounds that can be blended. Blendable Letter Sounds Song […]
In this brief video from Reading Universe, Morgan Walton highlights a quick teaching tip to remind students to « clip » the schwa sound off phonemes when pronouncing sounds.
Vidéo appuyant le Geste 2 du livre 7 Mighty Moves. Trouver, à l’oral, les voyelles des mots.
Le mapping orthographique est un moyen de créer des empreintes ou des représentations mentales de l’orthographe des mots.
À l’aide d’un gabarit, l’élève se pratique à écrire les mots fréquents.
The wonderful Jenni vanRees created this brief video, highlighting how to access the books used in ONlit book studies in the OCT Library. Thanks, Jenni!
Dr. Lakeisha Johnson, Speech-Language Pathologist, highlights the importance of shared book reading with diverse, culturally relevant texts in this PaTTAN webinar.