Why Reading Screening?
Why do we need to screen – don’t we already know which students are having difficulty with reading? Watch this brief video that unpacks how screening data help us build systems the set all students up for success.
Partner Reading in Laura Bross’ Class
Learning a new skill or strategy follows a predictable sequence known as the Instructional Hierarchy. As students build proficiency with a skill, it’s important to consider how we can build purposeful opportunities for practice. In this video, learn how grade 2/3 teacher Laura Bross uses partner reading in her class.
Fluency: Key to Comprehension with Dr. Jan Hasbrouck
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.
Spelling: Visible Language to Inform Instruction and Intervention
This recorded webinar highlights the importance of spelling to literacy development and how it can be analyzed to inform instruction and intervention. The integration of phonology, orthography, and morphology can be used to analyze student spelling inventory results. Dr. Pam Kastner analyzes classroom and individual student spelling to determine the types of errors students made.
Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4-9: What Research Tells Us
This webinar unpacks key recommendations from the IES Practice Guide Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4 – 9.
Thinking About Comprehension
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.
Early Reading Screening and Comprehension
While Ministry-approved early reading screening tools may not measure comprehension directly, we learn a lot about students’ comprehension with the Oral Reading Fluency subtest. Learn more in this brief video!
Screening: What Principals Need to Know Webinar Recording
On the recommendation of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Ontario will be starting early reading screening in Fall 2024. This webinar clarifies the important role principals play in screening: the who, what, when, why, and how of early reading screening – and, most importantly, how we can use these data to improve student outcomes.
Next STEPS Summer Book Study – Recordings and References
Keen to learn more about using assessment to drive structured literacy in your classroom? Catch up with our Next STEPS Summer Book Study. Resources related to this ONlit event series, hosted by Jordan Sloan, can be found here. Each session in the series tackles a foundational reading skill, unpacking what it is, why it’s necessary for…
Conscience phonologique et morphologique pour l’élève plus âgé
Dr. Michèle Minor-Corriveau présente les facteurs à considérer lorsqu’on intervient pour développer les habiletés de conscience phonologique chez les élèves aux cycles moyen et intermédiaire.
Acadience Reading Français
Découvrez notre série de courtes vidéos dédiées à Acadience Reading Français avec Alain Desrochers, professeur titulaire à l’Université d’Ottawa. Ces vidéos détaillées apportent une définition du dépistage universel et son utilité dans le guidage des interventions préventives ou ré éducatives. Un cadre d’analyse est proposé pour évaluer les caractéristiques d’une instrumentation servant au dépistage et…
Grammar on the Go
Grammar on the Go is a playlist of some foundational grammar concepts covered in the new Ontario Language Arts Curriculum (2003) for Grades 1-9. The video series focuses on nouns (common, proper, singular, plural), verbs (past, present, future, progressive, perfect tenses), pronouns (first person, second person, third person), gerunds, adjectives (common, proper, comparative, superlative, pronoun…
