AMDSB Indigenous Education Cards
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.
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Fluency in Perspective: Grade 6
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).
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Purposeful Play, Intentional Talk: Inclusive Oral Language Practices for Kindergarten – Recording
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…
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Implementing Structured Literacy In the Classroom: Part 2: Moving to print
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…
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Effective Language and Literacy: Diagnostic Interventions in French Immersion – Recording and Slides
This presentation focused on the essential practices and interventions needed to support effective language and literacy development for students in French Immersion programs. It began by establishing a foundation of high-leverage language and literacy practices that support successful learning. The presentation then addressed evidence-based screening, assessment, and intervention practices tailored to the French Immersion context….
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Handwriting: The ABCs of Explicit Instruction and Assessment -Recording
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.
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Intensifying Reading Intervention: Session Recordings
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…
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Kindergarten – Flow of the Day: Structured Literacy and Play
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.
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QRcodes for ONlit Embedded Picture Mnemonic Alphabet Videos
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…
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Teaching Writing with Self-Regulated Strategy Development using thinkSRSD – Recording
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…
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Grade 3 Guide
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….
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The Science of Reading: Defining Guides
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…
