Break the Fake: What’s real online?

This tailored instructional content guides educators in facilitating a lesson where students confront the challenges of discerning genuine from false online information. Through structured steps, students learn to verify online content and then creatively synthesize their understanding by designing a poster that underscores the importance […]

Girls and Boys on Television

This tailored instructional content guides educators in facilitating a lesson where students discuss children’s television programming and its portrayal of gender roles. Through discussions, students identify unfavourable aspects in these portrayals and craft their TV characters that challenge these negative representations. The lesson draws from […]

Printable Cards for Irregular “Heart” Words

Contrary to popular belief, students should not be taught to memorize irregular words by sight. In most irregular words, only one or two letters do not conform to their usual sound correspondence. This means that most irregular words are at least partially decodable. This is […]

Kate Winn Vocabulary & Comprehension Lesson 2: Hana’s Hundreds of Hijabs by Razeena Omar Gutta

In this vocabulary and comprehension lesson, Ontario Teacher Kate Winn provides a step-by-step lesson designed to increase and enhance vocabulary and comprehension. Using the picture book Hana’s Hundreds of Hijabs by Razeena Omar Gutta, this lesson plan provides detailed, explicit instruction on using vocabulary from the book and includes the blackline master for a follow-up writing activity.

French Alphabet Strips

This strip allows learners to practice writing the letters of the alphabet. Two versions of the bookmark are available for download: one containing the soft c/g and the other, the hard c/g. This resource respects the criteria for creating a pictorial mnemonic alphabet, and conforms to the principles of literacy science.

Leçon de phonétique: introduire un nouveau graphème

Ce document nous montre l’ordre d’une leçon phonétique qui inclut un bref description de chaque étape. Adaptation de la méthode utilisée en anglais par The Reading Clinic, Kingston Ontario.

“Lorsque vient le temps d’introduire un nouveau graphème, il s’agit de commencer la leçon avec une révision des cartes des leçons précédentes (voir l’exemple). On continue ensuite en introduisant un nouveau graphème qui sera ajouté au paquet de cartes”.
Graphème : la lettre écritePhonème : le son d’une lettre