Try a recipe from Thailand ... inspired from the September 23, 2020 Read Aloud of "Never Trust a Pelican."

During the 2019-2020 Professional Learning Communities in Sun West, the Early Learning/Phonological Awareness PLC created this recourse to help Teachers in their ELA programming with an overview of learning to read.
This continuum may also be helpful to parents, Educational Assistants, and other people in a student's educational team!

These charts will allow you to easily compare and integrate different Structured Literacy resources. The charts align UFLI and RazPlus, QPS, Phoneme & Grapheme Mapping Book, Silver Moon, SPIRE and Natlie Lynn Readers. 

A learning app for kids 2-7 years old.

Focussed on the whole child, interactive, fun, engaging, and free.

An adaptive path or independent learning path are available.

Language arts videos for young learners from TVO including silly songs, and full episodes of some shows.

Calldecott winning author Laura Vaccaro has compiled a free set of literacy resources to go along with her books which educators are free to print and share. These resources would support literacy in both reading and comprehending, as well as creating and responding to text. Most of the books are available to read online, or could be read aloud as part of a video shared with families. The resources to accompany the books are printable, so may be supportive of those families with less access or familiarity with technology

The Legacy of Hope Foundation is a very comprehensive site that offers lots of great resources that help to promote healing and Reconciliation in Canada. The Legacy of Hope Foundation's (LHF) goal is to educate and raise awareness about the history and existing intergenerational impacts of the Residential School System (RSS) and subsequent Sixties Scoop (SS) on Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) Survivors, their descendants, and their communities to promote healing and Reconciliation.Check out each of the sections to see the great resources they have to offer. 

Libby, by Overdrive is a books app that allows kids to browse and borrow ebooks and audiobooks from public libraries for free. Kids will need a library card to download or stream the books they want to borrow. The app connects users to their local library's ebook and audiobook collection. Users can link multiple library cards from different branches to access a wider collection. Kids can sample books before deciding to borrow them. If they're not immediately available, they can put titles on hold, and the activity tracker lets them track what they've read. Search for a specific title or explore different collections, including Kids, Teens, What's Popular?, and Subjects. Little kids can access picture books with read-along audio, making some books more accessible to early readers. Even though Libby, by Overdrive gives users access to a wide range of books, grown-ups can activate a juvenile or young adult filter in order to limit kids' access to the entire collection.

DON'T FORGET YOU CAN ACCESS BOOKS ON SORA AS WELL ALL YEAR LONG (if your school has Sora)!

This website provides short support videos by grade level for:
*readers have different voices
*readers make inferences
*readers retell/summarize
*readers question and predict
*readers track details
*readers juggle multiple texts
*SEL

Plan and deliver effective Reading Comprehension mini-lessons with this downloadable PDF that outlines the lesson in a 4-step lesson architecture:
- Step l: INTRODUCTION: You (re)introduce the skill.
- Step 2: INSTRUCTION: You explain and demonstrate the skill.
- Step 3: INTERACTION: They experience the skill.
- Step 4: CLOSURE: You crystallize the skill.

Use the template to create effective reading comprehension mini-lessons in your classroom today!

The link offers information about how to purchase "The Comprehension Playbook" for various grade levels.

This PDF is a downloadable lesson to accompany "A Monster at School" by Amanda Huneke.
The lesson includes the following literacy focuses:
- Reading comprehension (making predictions, making connections)
- Phonological awareness (rhyming words)
- Fluency (read with expression)

Consider following the author on Facebook for other ideas @ https://www.facebook.com/richards.lovingliteracy/

This document map is meant for students to use and interact with as they move through their ELA courses. It enables them to keep track of the outcomes as they meet them on their personalized journey through the courses

Newsela provides high-interest, printable news articles from a wide range of subject areas. Teachers can adjust the reading level of news articles to meet the needs of students. Within each article, power words are identified. Students can click on these and see the definition in student-friendly language. Newsela also provides writing prompts and questions about the articles. You can sign up for free access to the end of the 2019-20 school year. Although the site is American, there are lots of applicable news stories that align with Saskatchewan curricula and context.

Free use of this fabulous site is extended (again!) through the 2022-2023 school year.

Here's how it works:
- Click on on any book cover offered to begin reading.
- Use the book’s homework button to open a downloadable homework packet.
- Use the book's SMART Board button to download SMART Board files that are designed to assist you in the delivery of Flyleaf’s Foundational Skill and Close Reading Guide instruction.

Table of Contents:
- Emergent Reader Series - Part 1: VC, CVC Words
- Part 2: CCVCC Words (Blends)
- Part 3: Compound Words
- Part 4: Multisyllabic Words
- Part 5: Words with Endings
- Reading Series One - Part 6: Foundational Skills Consolidation
- Reading Series Two - Part 7: Consonant Digraphs
- Part 8: Long Vowels with Silent e
- Part 9: Single Long Vowels & Patterns & Soft c and g
- Part 10: r - Controlled Vowels
- Reading Series Three - Part 11: Vowel Digraphs
- Part 12: Variant Vowel Digraphs
- Part 13: Diphthongs
- Part 14: Advanced Letter-Sound Correspondences

library2go helps keep students reading. Students can access ebooks and audiobooks from the provincial library system if they have a library card. This is an opportune time for students to develop fluency and stamina for reading independently. Invite them to explore titles in different genres and to find nonfiction titles that build on their interests. If students don’t have a library card, they can check out their regional library’s membership tab. Many libraries have an online application option so that students can gain a temporary library card number to borrow materials

PBS has created and shared tons of media rich, engaging, digital lessons for a wide range of grade levels and subject areas.

Find FREE videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for teachers like you. Choose from lots of filters that will customize your search so you can find exactly what you're looking for.

ReadWorks assists teachers in differentiating reading instruction with high-quality texts and lessons K-12.

*decodable passages, article of the day, differentiated passages & much more!

Sign up for free and use ReadWorks in 3 Ways:
- Digital Classes - Students can highlight, annotate, and complete assignments online. Teachers can access progress reports & automatic grading.
- Print - Easily print any of our content and curriculum to share with your students.
- Projector - Project or use your smartboard for classroom instruction or online learning.

Find passages for the topics you’re teaching (STEM, Poetry, Social Studies, Literary Fiction, Arts, Holidays & Events)

Select "Resources" and then "Webinars" or "Teacher Guide" to help you get started. Many live and recorded webinars are available.

As part of the Reading League - the Reading Buddies YouTube videos are focused on the Science of reading with a Scope & Sequence that follows the alphabetic principle.

What do a dog, a girl, and a robot have in common? First and foremost, Dusty, Dott, and Alphabott are best friends. But they are also reading buddies! Dusty loves to talk, learning to read is a new skill. With the help of Dott and Alphabott, he discovers that it can be so much fun! Along the way, the friends practice letters, sounds and reading words, improvise stories, get letters from their globe-trotting friend Otto, practice social skills, and so much more. Become a Reading Buddy today!

Have you ever had a student who reads out loud beautifully, but struggles to understand the meaning behind what they just read?

Science of Reading research has uncovered key insights that help explain this behavior, and can help your students bridge the gap between decoding and comprehension.

Download the free infographic to understand the missing link in reading comprehension and learn how to incorporate comprehension processes practice into your instruction.

Download the free infographic and you will learn:

Why students may struggle with language comprehension.
Why mental modeling is key to understanding text.
Types of comprehension processes and how to practice them in the classroom.

The Reading League (TRL) is a national education nonprofit led by educators and reading experts dedicated to promoting knowledge to reimagine the future of literacy education and accelerate the global movement toward reading instruction rooted in science.