This resource will help you determine a student's progression in reading and spelling skills. Remember to always start with the lowest skill not mastered.

As awareness of dyslexia in early literacy grows, more and more questions have emerged about the learning challenge and how to better identify and support students at risk.

This new toolkit offers explicit answers for educators looking to learn about dyslexia and how to effectively screen for it to ensure students are supported as early and as effectively as possible.

With this toolkit, educators can better understand topics like:
- Dyslexia: What exactly is it?
- How to screen for at-risk students (and what actually works)
- Dyslexia legislation enacted in recent years

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The Language Literacy Network (Wasowicz, 2021; 2024) highlights how spoken and written language processes work together to support reading and writing.

Based on 30+ years of research, it focuses on key areas like reading comprehension, writing, and word-level decoding.

Building on Dr. Hollis Scarborough’s Reading Rope model, it updates and expands the original framework to reflect recent findings, emphasizing the link between decoding, spelling, and the reciprocal nature of reading and writing.

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Wasowicz, J. (2021, December 9). Re: The Language Literacy Network: Move over Reading Rope, make room for your better half…! [Electronic mailing list message]. SPELLTalk Listserv. https://lists.learningbydesign.com/mailman/listinfo/spelltalk

"The activities are designed for students to practice, demonstrate, and extend their learning of what has already been taught, sometimes with teacher assistance and sometimes independently. Students can complete the activities in small groups, pairs, or individually.

Accompanying these Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the Student Center materials."

Activities for: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension

This collection houses resources that support teachers in implementing research and evidence-based practices in the instruction of reading. This collection is being added to and developed and is a "work in progress!"  Please continue to check back as we add more resources and links!

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!

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)

This resource includes the assessment materials for spelling for the primary level, the elementary level and the upper level.
*forms
*word lists
*recording sheets
*administering directions

*Sask DLC see interim benchmark MSTeam channel for more supports.