IDAO – French Science of Reading Workshop: Part 1

Cet atelier met en évidence des progressions explicites, systématiques, cumulatives, multisensorielles, multimodales, multilinguistiques, structurées et adaptées, afin de pouvoir accéder au code écrit dans les milieux de l’immersion ainsi que du français langue première. Pour débuter, Michèle Minor-Corriveau, Ph.D. décrit les fondements du langage oral essentiels pour accéder à l’écrit en fonction de la science de la lecture.

IDAO – French Science of Reading Workshop Part 2

 Lise L’Heureux, M.A., orthopédagogue et formatrice à La faculté de Lexie & Graphie, présente sur la phonologie et la morphologie du français, un besoin important chez le personnel enseignant en immersion et en français langue première. Elle nous aide à mieux comprendre le rôle des sons, des syllabes, des familles de mots et des conventions linguistiques et orthographiques qui les régissent. Mme L’Heureux termine en élaborant la formation qui préparera le personnel enseignant afin de devenir efficace dans leur enseignement du français dans un modèle de conception universelle, où tous les élèves bénéficient d’un enseignement phonologique et morphologique efficace en lecture-écriture.

AlphaGraphe: Une progression des apprentissages basée sur la science de la lecture (vidéo)

Qu’est-ce qu’on y trouve ? • AlphaGraphe : la progression d’enseignement du principe alphabétique, expliquée. • Les Affiches-Classe de l’Alphabet mnémonique intégré (ami) • Le napperon de l’élève (ami) • Les cartes à découper • Des lettres à tracer (portrait et paysage), majuscules, minuscules, ami, avec et sans trottoirs ou guides ciel/eau/sable; ciel/herbe/terre • Les…

Focused Oral Reading Practice: A New Approach

This webinar will support educators in determining oral reading fluency goals, specifically for accuracy and rate, and how to provide instruction for these goals in a small group setting.  Michael Hunter provides examples of assessment with a focus on accuracy, error tracking using decodable texts, and how to provide small group instruction to first improve accuracy followed by rate. This webinar will support educators of all grade levels working with students to improve oral reading fluency with connected text. 

Why Explicit Instruction?

Explicit Instruction expert, Dr. Anita Archer, provides the rationale and overview of explicit instruction and its benefit for students. Archer provides a quick 5 minute overview of what Explicit Instruction is and isn’t, with concise and kind language.  This resource can be used to for professional development and to begin discussion between educators on Explicit Instruction. 

Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read

Put Reading First is a comprehensive guide to evidence-based reading instruction. Intended for educators and administrators, this guide aims to improve reading outcomes for children in the early grades.Chapter 1 provides an overview of the essential components of effective reading instruction, such as phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Chapter 2 focuses on the critical early stages of reading development, emphasizing the importance of explicit instruction in phonological awareness and phonics.Chapter 3 highlights the significance of developing automaticity and prosody in reading to enhance comprehension.Chapter 4 delves into the importance of vocabulary, teaching word meanings and strategies to foster word learning.Chapter 5 explains techniques for enhancing understanding, including active engagement, monitoring, and metacognition.Practical strategies for classroom instruction include using explicit and systematic phonics lessons, providing ample opportunities for guided oral reading, incorporating vocabulary-building activities, and promoting meaningful discussions to enhance comprehension.

The Connections Between Writing, Knowledge Acquisition, and Reading Comprehension

In this International Dyslexia Association Perspectives article, Judith C. Hochman and Natalie Wexler discuss why writing is challenging and how educators can teach these skills effectively to their students. They discuss sentence-level activities, embedding writing instruction in content knowledge, and how to prepare students for lengthier writing.  

Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching

A key component of the 2023 Language curriculum is explicit, systematic instruction. In this book, experts Anita Archer and Charles Hughes share the foundations of explicit instruction, how to design lessons based on subject skills/strategies as well as vocabulary/concepts, organizing for and delivering instruction, and providing appropriate independent practice – going from I do, to we do, to you do. This book is incredible learning for classroom educators as well as special education teachers/interventionists, and can be applied to any subject or grade level. Helpful lesson templates/checklists can be downloaded and reproduced. 

Etymonline: Online Etymological Dictionary

Etymonline is a free online etymology dictionary that provides information about the origins and historical development of words in English.  It offers detailed explanations of word origins, meanings, and changes over time, often tracing words back to their earliest recorded usage. This resource can help educators and students understand how words have evolved and diversified throughout history, as well as help understand the orthography and morphology of words.