These Five-Minute Focus slide decks were designed with busy staff meetings in mind. Each deck highlights an important literacy topic and follows a practical, easy-to-use structure: Complete with speaker notes to support presentation delivery, these short slide decks are an effective way to build educator knowledge, strengthen instructional capacity, and spark meaningful professional learning conversations….
Learn practical, evidence-informed approaches for teaching students how to read and decode multisyllabic words with confidence. This Five-Minute Focus slide deck explores instructional routines and strategies that support word reading, fluency, and overall reading comprehension. These Five-Minute Focus slide decks were designed with busy staff meetings in mind. Each deck highlights an important literacy topic…
Explore how Partner Reading and Paragraph Shrinking can strengthen fluency, comprehension, and student engagement through structured peer collaboration. Because this topic includes multiple routines, this Five-Minute Focus slide deck is larger than usual and will require more time to work through. These Five-Minute Focus slide decks were designed with busy staff meetings in mind. Each…
This is a collection of passages designed to be used for fluency instruction in grade 6. The passages are purposefully written to flexibly support a variety of different instructional routines (Quick Fluency Routine, repeated reading, partner reading/paragraph shrinking).
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 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….
Learning Through Literacy is ONlit’s approach to integrated structured literacy instruction aligned with the Ontario Language Curriculum. Each grade level includes a selection of connected practices that show students how language, literacy, and curriculum areas work together through engagement with meaningful, Canadian content. Across the resource, educators will find features such as high-quality mentor texts,…
This Google sheet can be used by Grades 3-6 teachers who are using Acadience paper/pencil materials. The sheet will calculate median wc, accuracy, and adjusted maze scores based on the embedded codes. It will also convert the accuracy to the RCS value for correct calculation. Conditional formatting of colour bands and a self-populating donut graph…
This resource is a digital tracking sheet designed for teachers using the Acadience Reading 7–8 assessment with Grade 7 and 8 students. It automatically calculates gate scores based on raw data, saving teachers time and reducing the chance of error. It’s especially helpful for Special Education Resource Teachers, Literacy Leads, or classroom educators who support…
