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…
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…
Maya’s Book Nook is a website created by Speech-Language Pathologist Dr. Lakeisha Johnson. The Behind the Book section houses a bank of materials to accompany a diverse, culturally relevant children’s book. Equally useful for both parents/caregivers and educators, these handouts include target vocabulary words, as well as questions to support dialogic reading to build language comprehension.
It is of critical importance that educators learn as much as they can about students’ home language in order to provide both effective and culturally relevant and responsive instruction. ASHA maintains a list of phonemic inventories that support educators in learning more about the structure of languages student speak.
Tier 2 words appear in many different contexts and are often subtle or precise ways to say relatively simple things. Since these aren’t words that will typically be used in a student’s conversations and they aren’t domain-specific, they should be given more focus than Tier 1 and Tier 3 vocabulary. The Academic Word Finder produces…
This infographic highlights how students unlock the power of reading to learn. In the early years, children gain vocabulary, knowledge, and understanding of their home language through listening. This can be boosted by engaging in meaningful conversations, listening to stories read aloud, and exposure to knowledge and vocabulary-building media. While this is a powerful and…
Intensive intervention helps students with severe and persistent learning needs, including students with learning disabilities. Data-based individualization is an approach to intensive intervention. This website provides an outline of the steps of data-based individualization, walking educators through each step.
In this overview from Reading Rockets on teaching text structure, you’ll learn about the 5 most common text structures (narrative, descriptive, expository, procedural/instructional, and argumentative/persuasive) and their features and how to help students learn to identify and use text structures in their reading and writing. The article also provides downloadable printables that can be used…
