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…
With chapters covering the science of reading, effective literacy teaching (as well as mathematics), cognitive load theory, and knowledge-rich curricula, this book can inform and inspire all educators, and with its focus on improving instruction at the school level, it’s particularly valuable for school and system leaders with decision-making responsibilities.
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 –…
Catch up on our Strive for Five book study! Hosted by Melissa Monette Smith, this book study explores a framework for extending conversations with students from Kindergarten through Grade 8 to accelerate language comprehension and support academic growth.
The tracker is a spreadsheet that calculates all the Acadience Screener Results after educators input their data. It displays them in an easy to read format so that educators can analyze a class set of data to inform planning for reading interventions.
These labels were created for SyllaSense Decodable Texts. The labels include the grapheme/phoneme correspondences (from their Scope and Sequence) which are introduced in each title. These were created to aid teachers in finding the decodable texts needed for students who may need extra practice aligned with the skills taught in a Tier 1 program.
This newly updated book (Third Edition) is a great resource for teachers of all grades looking to support their students’ reading comprehension. It’s particularly helpful for instructing students who have learning difficulties, but is a valuable read for all educators. The book includes chapters on Vocabulary, Promoting Content-Area Literacy, Supporting English Learners, Intensive Interventions, Multicomponent…
Talk Moves are sentence starters and gestures that teachers and students can use to invite everyone into the conversation and encourage academic thinking. Learn how to create a classroom culture of talk and incorporate talk moves in your class through this Talk Moves PD Series. Starting September 2024, a new module will be available every…
This template can be used for daily review of alphabet formation and weekly progress monitoring. This can be used as a tool for students who to review phonics skills and practice sky, ground, grass letter formation.
Whether using something new, successful implementation takes intentional planning and time. Implementation is not an event but a process involving multiple decisions and actions. Although implementation can take longer than we hope or anticipate, its process and trajectory can be predicted and shaped using a stage-based approach. The Implementation Stages Planning Tool supports identification of…
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.
Laura Bross, a grade 2/3 teacher in the Avon Maitland District School Board, maps out sample literacy blocks for a grade 2, 3 or 2/3 class. In the document, she highlights different possible configurations, and links to additional resources that she uses to plan effective instruction in her class.
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