Designed for Grades 4, 5, and 6, ONlit’s Learning Through Literacy resources brought together literacy and content learning through ready-to-use instructional materials. In this Camp ONlit 2026 series, Laura Bross, Erika Chesnick, and Jordan Ingola shared practical classroom examples, instructional ideas, and considerations for using the resources across the junior grades.
These Five-Minute Focus slide decks were designed with busy staff meetings in mind. Each deck highlights an important literacy topic and follows a practical, easy-to-use structure: Complete with speaker notes to support presentation delivery, these short slide decks are an effective way to build educator knowledge, strengthen instructional capacity, and spark meaningful professional learning conversations….
Learn practical ways to use sentence combining as a writing strategy to help students create more complex, varied, and effective sentences. This Five-Minute Focus slide deck provides examples that support stronger writing fluency, clarity, and overall composition skills. These Five-Minute Focus slide decks were designed with busy staff meetings in mind. Each deck highlights an…
Explore how ONlit’s Learning Through Literacy writing resources could come to life in primary classrooms. In these recordings from Camp ONlit 2026, Laura Bross, Erika Chesnick, and Jordan Ingola shared classroom examples, practical instructional ideas, and considerations for using the resources to support explicit writing instruction and help students develop increasingly independent writing skills.
Catch up on this ONlit recording featuring Ontario educators Erika Chesnick and Jordan Ingola. In this session, Erika and Jordan provided a high-level overview of the thinkSRSD approach to teaching writing, along with real-life examples from Ontario classrooms. This webinar offered educators an opportunity to deepen their understanding of thinkSRSD and shared practical strategies they…
L’aperçu d’ONlit du Continuum des apprentissages linguistiques B3 offre au personnel enseignant une explication claire du rôle des conventions linguistiques dans un enseignement efficace de la littératie. La ressource présente les éléments essentiels de ces conventions linguistiques et décrit comment ils soutiennent une lecture fluide, une expression claire et une communication écrite précise. L’introduction met…
The Introduction to Grade 3 guide provides educators with a clear and comprehensive foundation for understanding the instructional priorities and literacy expectations of Grade 3. It outlines curriculum expectations and explains key components of literacy learning, including vocabulary development, increasingly complex comprehension strategies, consolidation of reading and writing skills, and the integration of media literacy….
The Introduction to Grade 1 guide is a comprehensive starting point for educators navigating the foundational year of literacy instruction. It clearly outlines the Grade 1 curriculum expectations, explains key components such as phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing development, and highlights practical research-supported strategies educators can use in day-to-day instruction. The guide…
The Introduction to Grade 2 guide is a comprehensive foundation for educators as they navigate the instructional priorities and literacy expectations of Grade 2. It clearly outlines curriculum expectations and explains key components. The guide provides research-supported approaches and practical strategies educators can use in day-to-day instruction to strengthen students’ literacy skills and promote confident,…
ONlit’s Kindergarten Welcome Page provides educators and school leaders with a clear introduction to how early literacy is supported across the Kindergarten years. The page outlines the focus of literacy learning in Kindergarten, including oral communication, emergent reading and writing behaviours, and vocabulary development, and explains how these components are developed through everyday classroom experiences….
ONlit’s Overview of the B3 Language Conventions Continuum provides educators with a clear explanation of the role that language conventions play in effective literacy instruction. This resource outlines the essential elements of language conventions and describes how these components support fluent reading, clear expression, and precise written communication. The introduction highlights how understanding and teaching…
Le Survol de la littératie en 1re année constitue un point de départ solide pour le personnel enseignant qui accompagne les élèves au cours de cette année charnière du développement de la littératie. Il présente clairement les attentes du programme-cadre de la 1re année et explicite les composantes clés de l’apprentissage, notamment la conscience phonologique,…
