This is a resource created by the Speech-Language Pathologists working in the Sun West School Division. We are all in uncharted territory right now with school closures and finding the best way to support students to ensure that their needs are met during this time away from school.

We thought the easiest way to connect with all of you would be to make this general website that includes information about what exactly speech and language includes and how we can work together to support your children at this time. This website includes the basics of articulation (speech), language, fluency, and AAC. It also includes some general ideas for ways to work on these skills at home.

If you would like some specific handouts, worksheets, or have any questions you can contact the SLP who works at your school directly by email.

There are a wealth of downloads available on this site that are very useful for Structured Literacy in Grades 3+
You will need to provide an email to download the resources.

Scroll down to find:
*Interactive Text Experience Planning Template - maximize shared reading and read alouds
*Strategic Thinking Moves - for language comprehension
*Reciprocal Teaching Tips & Grid - 4 key moves
*Lesson Template for Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
*Lesson Template for Morphology Instruction
*Example of Morphology Multi-Year Plan
*Phonics Template & Skills Progression
*Routine for Big Words
*Word Mapping Tools
*Fluency Self-Assessment Tool
*Decoding Inventory
& More!

Overview: There are a wealth of downloads available on this site that are very useful for Structured Literacy in Grades 3+
You will need to provide an email to download the resources.

Scroll down to find:
*Dialogic Conversation to Develop Oral Language
*Phonemic Awareness Skills Development Tools
*Phonemic Awareness Progress Records
*Sound-Spelling Charts & Frieze Cards
*Sound Pronunciation Videos
*Short Vowels, Blends, Digraphs: Decodable Word Lists and Sentences
*Long Vowels: Decodable Word Lists and Sentences
*Phonics Lesson Template
*100+ Word Chain Lists
*109 Power Words List
*Look Before You Leap Routine for Word Solving
*Science of Reading resources

Materials include:
Teacher guides
Student workbooks
Decodable readers
Assessment and remediation guides
Videos
Flip books
Many other supports

This 1 hour webinar looks at tools and intervention strategies for students between grades 4-12. These are things you can use right away!
*Word Reading
*Fluency
*Background Knowledge, Vocabulary, Language Structure
*Comprehension

Slide Deck (copy and paste this web address into your browser) https://drive.google.com/file/d/101wp9pG1KyP6Ualr5SjXalgGI_qOxNKj/view

This process and template provide teachers with a structure to infuse structured literacy cross-curricularly. This includes a 9 step process, as well as a template to plan on, and an example. 

These short videos (about 5 minutes on average) teach all about how words and reading works!

There are videos for:
*Phonemic awareness
*Syllable types
*Blending words
*Grammar skills
*Vocabulary
*Story elements

I suggest you click "playlists" as well to find playlists for: fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, syllable types, etc.

This is the supporting document for Structured Literacy at Sun West School Division. This document was developed by The Success for All Learners Team (SALT). 

This site offers several online decodable books covering different letter sounds while introducing phonetic and sight words. Reading prompts and discussion points are imbedded throughout the book, with discussion questions at the end.

The document attached below is a summary of Equitable Education for Students With Reading Disabilities from the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. 

Grab these free syllable clip cards today! Great for preschoolers and early readers.

The good reasons this skill of counting syllables has shifted down to pre-readers as they begin to make sense of the world of literacy:
- When kids can chunk words into syllables, they can read longer words more quickly, accurately, and fluently.
- Beginning spellers do better when they can break words into pieces.

An overview of how our brains learn to read and the connection to morphology. This resource contains a short webinar outlining the background of morphology and strategies for the classroom.

Download this free phonemic awareness today!

Recent discussions occurring online, in journals, and at conferences are creating uncertainties about what phonological awareness instruction will be most effective with which children. This guide addresses some of these questions by using what we currently know from the scientific research, from teacher experiences, and from observations in clinical teaching environments for children who struggle with reading.

The outline of the resource includes:
Section 1. Reading Research, Instructional Practice, and Phoneme Awareness
1.1 When should reading research influence instructional practices?
1.2 What is Phonological Awareness? Why is it Important?
Section 2. The Who, When, What, and How of Teaching Phonemic Awareness
2.1 Who needs to be taught phoneme awareness?
2.2 When should phonological awareness instruction begin?
2.3 What phonemic awareness skills should be taught?
2.4 How should phonological awareness instruction begin?
2.5 How much phonological awareness time should involve phonemic awareness activities?
2.6 Is there any value in beginning phonological awareness instruction with larger units, such
as syllables?
2.7 Do onset-rime activities have a role in early phonemic awareness instruction?
2.8 What are manipulatives and how can I use them when teaching phoneme awareness?
2.9 Is it important to teach phoneme awareness with tasks like phoneme deletion and
substitution?
Using sound chains to teach phoneme awareness

" Translate the current research on reading into classroom practices that teachers can deploy tomorrow. We know that reading is an active process that is impacted by the text, task, and sociocultural context in which the reading occurs."

This website is a great place to find resources (that need to be purchased) to support the development and implementation of a sound wall in your classroom.

These videos were created to help you implement UFLI Foundations, a systematic and explicit program for teaching foundational reading skills.

Learn how to implement the 8 step routine. "Steps 1 through 4 serve as a warm-up and review of previously taught concepts. Step 5 is an explicit introduction to a new concept including guided practice reading and spelling words. Steps 6 through 8 are opportunities to apply concepts through reading and writing activities at the word and text level."

*Implementation overview
*Slide Deck Tutorial
*Day 1 Lessons (phonemic awareness, visual drill, auditory drill, blending drill, new concept)
*Day 2 Lessons (new concept review, word work, irregular or heart words, reading & writing connected text)
*Progress Monitoring & Implementation

The UFLI Foundations Toolbox contains all the lesson resources to accompany the lesson plans provided in the UFLI Foundations manual. Every lesson has companion resources that will help you implement the lessons efficiently, effectively, and consistently.

Some of the companion lesson resources you will find below include:

Lesson slide decks
Decodable passages
Home practice activities
Games and activities for additional practice

112 excellent lessons and supports!

There are great tutorials here to support teachers on using a variety of activities from UFLI, including:

*Word Work Mats

*Phoneme & Grapheme Activities (blending, elkonin boxes, manipulative letters, counting bead string, say it-move it, sorting game)

*Decoding & Encoding (morpheme trees, syllable types, heart words, word chains, practice)

The Virtual Teaching Resource Hub was developed to assist teachers as they explore new ways to teach foundational reading skills using technology. This site has tools for reading instruction and intervention with children in the elementary grade levels.

*Lesson structure
*Instructional activities
*managing behaviour
*tech tools and tips
*webinar series

"The Virtual Teaching Resource Hub was developed to assist teachers as they explore new ways to teach foundational reading skills using technology. This site has tools for reading instruction and intervention with children in the elementary grade levels.

The materials here are designed to be used with video conferencing platforms for distance education and with interactive whiteboards in the classroom. The activities can also be used if you are creating video lessons for asynchronous lessons."

Resources include:
*Lesson templates, sample lessons
*Instructional activities
*Tips for managing behaviour
*Tech tools and tips
*PD - for Teaching Reading Online - 6 part web series
*Tutorials
*FAQs