Lalilo is an online tool for K, 1st and 2nd grade teachers and students. The Lalilo website is accessible on tablets, iPads and computers. Lalilo works in school environments or in a distance learning setting.

Through personalized exercises students work on adaptive exercises in phonics, word recognition, and comprehension.

Lalilo creates a playful, interactive world where students journey through different worlds, collecting badges and unlocking stories. The vocabulary-rich stories teach students about nature and animals in engaging and fun ways.

The site also offers data at-a-glance. Teachers can track whole class and individual progress. They can also assign specific lessons.

Kindergarten children are usually familiar with beginning sound "ABC" books with texts such as "A is for apple. "In this activity, repeated for each consonant letter, art, writing, conventional spelling, and reading are combined to create a personal "Letter Book" for each child.

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 is a fabulous resource to support your literacy goals in the classroom. There are endless options of good-quality children's literature and accompanying activities. The website states: "This award-winning digital library hosts over 10,000 resources directly tied to the books teachers, caregivers and community partners turn to everyday. Organize all of your book resources in one place, create and share book lists, find helpful reading tips and strategies and track student reading progress by creating and signing into your free account today." All of this is available with a free account.

Practical advice and high impact t​eaching practices that improve outcomes in reading, writing and speaking and listening.

Guides are available for elementary schools and early education (birth to 5 years) as well.

Sections are included for Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, Interacting with Others, Emergent Literacy and within those areas you will find teaching practices, videos, sample phonics lessons, in practice examples and more.

A teaching tooklit map is provided to grade 6 with links to many of the items on the map! https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/childhood/professionals/learning/literacy/lttusermap-ec.pdf (birth to 5)
https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/english/literacy/lttusermap.pdf (Gr. 1 to 6)

A map with live links on how to prepare young students for literacy and interacting with others!

This is a listening activity, intended to help students with their listening skills.  The activity is a reading of the book "Barnyard Dance" written by Sandra Boynton, read by Heather Phillips, that includes dance like instructions for students to do as they listen.

This video demonstrates at home make and beak word literacy strategies that you can do at home with your kids.

Have your students use the downloadable worksheet to mix and match morphemes to create words.

A collection of hands on math activities for kids in preschool to Grade 5.

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/

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', , , 'oo', 'ie', 'ar', ‘air’

Check for other great free resources on this website while you're there.

This short recorded webinar explains what morphology is and how we can infuse these strategies into our classrooms to support reading, specifically word solving.

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.

"This is a story of Mark and his Brain. At the age of 10, Mark sustained a brain injury which left him with some significant physical impairments. In this story we see how Mark and his Brain recover and overcome these injuries. We learn how to keep our brains safe, and we learn the importance of
including and accepting others.

My Jelly Brain is suitable for children aged 3 to 8 years. It is a read-aloud for the younger children however the older children could read this independently. My Jelly Brain is a teaching tool used to meet many of the Department of Education curriculum teaching outcomes (here in Nova Scotia) in multiple subjects up to and including grade 3. Although I expect that the educational curriculum may vary slightly from province to province, in Nova Scotia the book aligns with...many subjects and outcomes."

You will need to download the book to read it.

TEACHER RESOURCES - copy and paste this url into your web browser - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16gU5-_ZDR79y44y7rC2os546fDmpQhWX

The „andut’ website provides up-to-date resources and guidance on foreign language learning in grades PreKĐ8, with the intention that such information will help provide a strong foundation for long-term language instruction. The website offers multiple links to other resources, such as a searchable database for early language learning schools and teaching resources. A listserv is available as well via the website.

The Observation Survey includes 6 tasks:
Letter Identification - Students are asked to identify capital and lower case letters in any way they can.
Word Test - Students read a list of 20 words.
Concepts about Print - This task identifies what children know about how print works.
Writing Vocabulary - Students are given 10 minutes to write as many words as they can.
Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words- A short story is dictated and students are asked to record the sounds they hear.
Text Reading - Students are asked to read text and their level is identified

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