Learn how the GIST summarization strategy helps students identify key ideas and synthesize information in a clear, concise way. This Five-Minute Focus slide deck provides practical classroom tips for teaching the GIST across a variety of texts and subject areas. These Five-Minute Focus slide decks were designed with busy staff meetings in mind. Each deck…
Explore the power of Tier 2 vocabulary in strengthening students’ comprehension, communication, and academic success across subjects. This Five-Minute Focus slide deck offers practical strategies for teaching, and reinforcing high-utility words in everyday instruction. These Five-Minute Focus slide decks were designed with busy staff meetings in mind. Each deck highlights an important literacy topic and…
Discover how embedded mnemonics can make letter-sound learning more memorable and engaging for students. This Five-Minute Focus slide deck provides practical strategies and classroom-ready examples to help educators strengthen early literacy instruction with ease. These Five-Minute Focus slide decks were designed with busy staff meetings in mind. Each deck highlights an important literacy topic and…
The Indigenous Education Team from the Avon Maitland District School Board has created three tools to help students develop their ecological literacy and knowledge of the land.
Hosted by Angeline Humber and Melinda Hinch, this webinar supports kindergarten educators in providing play-based instruction to develop language skills. Angeline and Melinda highlight effective practices particularly well-suited for students who are multilingual learners, or who may have Developmental Language Disorder or language delays. Together, they explore: The session pairs joyful classroom practice with explicit…
This webinar is the first in a 3-part series hosted by IDA Ontario. In this webinar, Emily Moorhead demonstrates and discusses ways to support young learners as they begin to use letters to blend and segment for reading and spelling. She models how this leap from oral to print can be explicitly taught, guided, and…
This webinar was hosted by Dr. Shawn Datchuk. Participants learned how handwriting supports both writing and reading, examined evidence-based approaches to explicit handwriting instruction, and gained guidance on administering and interpreting brief handwriting assessments.
This series explores how strong core instruction lays the essential foundation for all readers, while recognizing that some students will still require intensified support through tier 2 and tier 3 intervention. Hosted by Ines Bijl and Dr. Una Malcolm, the series examines what it means to provide meaningful intervention beyond the core, and how educators…
This poster outlines two ideas of how to structure the day in a kindergarten classroom. Flow of the day considerations and reflective questions are also included.
These QRcodes allow teachers to foster a home school connection when introducing or review letter sounds with the ONlit Mnemonic Alphabet. Send home a QRcode each time you teach a letter. You can print them on labels (such as Avery 5160) or on plain paper and cut them up. The first time, you may want…
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…
The Science of Reading: A Defining Guide offers educators, leaders, and other stakeholders a firm definition of the “science of reading” and the research foundation that informs effective literacy instruction. The guide clarifies what the science of reading is — a vast, interdisciplinary body of scientifically based research about how reading and writing develop, why…
