Next STEPS Summer Book Study – Recordings and References

Keen to learn more about using assessment to drive structured literacy in your classroom?   Catch up with our Next STEPS Summer Book Study. Resources related to this ONlit event series, hosted by Jordan Sloan, can be found here. Each session in the series tackles a […]

How Learning Happens

Passionate about integrating the science of learning into your pedagogical practice? Catch up with the materials and recordings from Jim Hewitt and Nidhi Sachdeva’s series, focusing on selected chapters from How Learning Happens by Paul Kirschner and Carl Hendrick. The series focuses on six theoretical foundations […]

IES K-3 Professional Learning Community Facilitator Guide

This facilitator’s guide is designed to assist professional learning communities (PLCs) in applying evidence-based strategies to help K-3 students acquire the language and literacy skills needed to succeed academically. This document is a support for educators watching the IES videos of foundational language and literacy […]

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

Why Explicit Instruction?

Explicit Instruction expert, Dr. Anita Archer, provides the rationale and overview of explicit instruction and its benefit for students. Archer provides a quick 5 minute overview of what Explicit Instruction is and isn’t, with concise and kind language.  This resource can be used to for professional development and to begin discussion between educators on Explicit Instruction. 

Focused Oral Reading Practice: A New Approach

This webinar will support educators in determining oral reading fluency goals, specifically for accuracy and rate, and how to provide instruction for these goals in a small group setting.  Michael Hunter provides examples of assessment with a focus on accuracy, error tracking using decodable texts, and how to provide small group instruction to first improve accuracy followed by rate. This webinar will support educators of all grade levels working with students to improve oral reading fluency with connected text.