This collection houses resources that support teachers in implementing research and evidence-based practices in the instruction of reading.
Enjoy these stories about the popular Moon Dogs characters doing activities at home.
Included are free resources to read and print at home. They support the teaching of the following spellings/sounds:
- 'ae', 'ee', 'ow', 'er',
Check for other great free resources on this website while you're there.
This resource provides a structured approach to teaching vocabulary through understanding word parts.
The resource covers:
*Introduction: Differentiates between active and passive vocabulary, discusses motivation for teaching morphology, and explains terminology.
*First Level Morphology: Focuses on Anglo-Saxon base words, affixes, and parts of speech.
*Second Level Morphology: Explores Latin bases, affixes, lesson elements, and distinctions between suffixes and final stable syllables.
*Advanced Elements: Introduces Greek templates, combining forms, and assimilated prefixes.
This resource aims to enhance vocabulary acquisition by dissecting word structures and origins, offering both foundational and advanced strategies for educators.
You will need to provide you email to download these excellent (and free) template from Jennifer Findley to teach morphology!
Multisensory Tools for Reading and Writing
Color-Coded Word Building Tiles (View / Download)
Read It, Build It, Write It Mat (View / Download)
Story Stick Questions (View / Download)
Multisensory instruction can help kids with reading and writing issues gain basic skills. It works by engaging more than one sense at a time. Multisensory teaching doesn’t have to be limited to school. You can use some techniques at home.
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
120 lessons start with introducing letters and letter sounds. Then students read and write words like “cat” and “fib.” Students learn more sophisticated phonics, affixes, and spellings, in a step-by-step way. By the end, they are reading and writing words like “communication” and “chrysanthemum.”
Phonological Awareness Screening Test (PAST)
*everything you need is provided including instructions and documents.
This website hosts a variety of resources related to the science of reading.
This site is full of resources about literacy for parents and their children. Information is divided into birth-Prek, K-3, 4-6 and 7-12.
Each section contains informational sites for parents, as well as activities students can do at home to improve their literacy skills.
The following is an example from 2018-2019 of what parents can do at home to support phonological awareness with their child at home.
Each month has approximately 10 or more very short activities you can do with your child, and it includes the answers you should expect from your child.
This could be helpful if you are required to wear a mask and still teach letter sounds...
a: a-a-a (open mouth wide as if to take a bite of an apple) b – (make a short, strong b with lips) c - (make sharp click at back of throat) Same as k d – (ta...
The following is a collection of phonological awareness resources teachers may find useful when setting up their early literacy programs in Kindergarten and Grade 1.
"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 is a fabulous read aloud routine to use with practically any age of students. This routine takes about a half hour while reading one passage.
This routine can help build language comprehension, fluency, vocabulary and background knowledge.
*Math assessment materials
*Reading K-6 assessment materials
K-6
Select "Acadience Reading K-6 (Digital Administration" from the left menu; and "Benchmark Materials" from the right menu. - Then Select Your Grade's Materials .
7-9
Select "Acadience Reading 7-8 (Digital Administration" from the left menu; and "Benchmark Materials" from the right menu. - Then Select Your Grade's Materials .
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.
This site features:
*short video tutorials on how to best use Reading Eggs.
*printable resources
*tips for distance teaching
*distance learning parent support pack
The following are the expected fluency rates for grades 1-8 at the beginning and end of year. This is based on the Saskatchewan curriculum.
This resource explains how you can access MS Reading Progress and Reading Coach in MS Teams.