Just the Facts
These brief videos are short and sweet – giving you “just the facts” on a variety of topics. From decodable text to the instructional hierarchy, these videos dig into what you “literacy” need to know to get started on your learning!
Grade 1 Planning: From Data to Instruction Webinar Recordings (Parts 1 & 2)
In this webinar, Melissa Monette Smith demonstrates how she uses screening and diagnostic data to plan and organize her Grade 1 literacy block. She walks through her processes for building small groups, using a scope and sequence to guide instruction, and setting up her long-range plans.
Printing Like a Pro!
Printing Like a Pro was developed by Sunny Hill Health Centre out of British Columbia. Printing Like a Pro! is a cognitive approach to teaching printing to primary school-age children, at home and in the classroom. The website includes free, downloadable resources and printable worksheets.
Strand B Guidance Videos
This series of videos was developed by Dr. Robert Savage from York University. The video series unpacks elements of Strand B of the revised Language Curriculum, building educator knowledge. Stay tuned for more videos to come!
Morpheme Cards
These morpheme cards can be used with the Multisyllable Word Reading posters to highlight prefixes and suffixes when breaking down longer words. With both black and white and coloured options, these cards can be printed 4 to a page for easy assembly.
Building Competent and Engaged Readers in French Immersion
The Building Competent and Engaged Readers in French Immersion resource presents educators with supports to provide an equitable, inclusive, responsive and comprehensive literacy program, based on the Science of Reading, that utilizes assessments and instructional practices to ensure every student has the fundamental right to learn to read. This resource includes planning for literacy instruction…
Spelling Pattern Reference Guide
English has a reputation of being overly complicated. It is complex – but there is a predictable structure! This reference sheet gives an overview of some of the “tendencies” in English that explain why words are spelled the way they are. Note that this chart is not designed to be used directly with students –…
Empowering Young Readers by Using Assessment Data
This resource features a set of flowcharts that can help Kindergarten, grade 1 and grade 2 educators identify student skill reading needs in phonological awareness, phonics, and fluency based on universal screening data. Once the needs are identified, the flowcharts direct educators toward evidence-based instructional practices that can be used to provide reading acceleration targeted…
Spellbound: Teaching Tricks to Make Spelling Stick!
In this video series, Martha Kovack highlights tips and tricks for teaching spelling, including orthographic conventions like -ck, -tch, and -dge.
Decodable Phrase Cards (UFLI aligned)
These decodable phrase cards follow the UFLI scope and sequence. They can be used for accuracy and fluency instruction at the sentence level. They include both PDF and Google Slides formatting. They include two versions with different list lengths for easy differentiation.
Decodable Sentence Trees (UFLI aligned)
These sentence trees follow the UFLI scope and sequence. They are formatted on Google Slides with animations to reveal one word at a time. They can also be printed on cards. This resource can support instruction and practice with sentence reading accuracy and fluency.
Intensive Intervention Practice Guide: Explicit Morphology Instruction to Improve Overall Literacy Skills in Secondary Students
This Intensive Intervention Practice Guide describes morphology and explains how teaching morphology can improve the reading skills of secondary-age students with reading and writing difficulties. In English, the spellings of words include information about both meanings and sounds. As a result, learning about morphology can help readers with word recognition (knowing the pronunciations and meanings…
