Reading Road Trip: Ask Us Anything!
In the Season 1 finale of Reading Road Trip, Kate Winn and Una Malcolm answer listener questions, sharing their thoughts on everything from sound-spelling walls to structured literacy in older grades.
IES K-3 Professional Learning Community Facilitator Guide
This facilitator’s guide is designed to assist professional learning communities (PLCs) in applying evidence-based strategies to help K-3 students acquire the language and literacy skills needed to succeed academically. This document is a support for educators watching the IES videos of foundational language and literacy instruction.
Stratégies et régularités orthographiques
Cette ressource présente des stratégies pour apprendre l’orthographe des mots. Elle comprend également plusieurs astuces permettant aux élève de connaître les régularités orthographiques les plus courantes.
Teaching Spelling: An Opportunity to Unveil the Logic of Language
Moats emphasizes the importance of spelling knowledge and language understanding in literacy development in this article. It highlights that spelling is not just about memorizing letters but involves various language aspects like pronunciation, spelling, meaning, and grammatical structure. Good spellers possess comprehensive mental images of words, while poor spellers may lack accuracy and completeness. Moats…
Phoneme-Grapheme Frequency Chart – Vowels
Curious about how sounds are represented in print? Not sure about what the most common spelling is for a phoneme? This handout provides the most frequent spellings for the vowel phonemes in English.
Using Elkonin Boxes
This is a handy guide that explains how to use Elkonin boxes in instruction, with the helpful addition of word lists for teaching.
Phinder
free website designed to help educators generate lists of words
Structured Literacy in Kindergarten: 5 Key Changes That Made All My Students Readers
IDA Ontario webinar outlining 5 key changes that educators can make in their Kindergarten classroom.
How Spelling Supports Reading
Comprehensive article outlining the key principles for making sense of the English spelling system.
7 Mighty Moves: Research-Backed, Classroom-Tested Strategies to Ensure K-to-3 Reading Success
Reader friendly book for educators outlining 7 changes to classroom instruction to improve literacy outcomes.
The Art & Science of Teaching Primary Reading
Written for teachers by a teacher with a strong understanding of reading science, this title supports both the foundational skills and language comprehension components of reading.
Implementing Structured Literacy In the Classroom-Part 3: Putting it Together
Third webinar in the IDA Ontario structured literacy in kindergarten series.
