Fluency Friday- Earth Day! Here’s a link to a collection of ten Earth Day poems playosmo.com/kids-learning/…. Would be great to celebrate Earth Day w a classroom “poetry slam” or “poetry coffee house” using these & other Earth poems. ILA International Dyslexia Association The Reading League Institute for Multi-Sensory Education

SCDSB Gr. 4-8 educators! This exciting new word study resource should be arriving in schools this week! SCDSB Student Achievement

Check out this lovely display of mentor texts Severn Shores PS ready to go for Mental Health Awareness Week (May 1-7). SCDSBliteracy collaborated with SCDSB Mental Health and Well-Being to provide you with 5 days of lessons! Access the elementary version here: bit.ly/MHWB_Lit SCDSB Student Achievement

This bug squashing game is a student fave! 🐜 G demonstrated so much perseverance when reading s/o/t 💪 #phonologicalawareness #Kindergarten Kelly Cox ColdwaterPS SCDSBliteracy

📚Decodable readers from SyllaSense are going to be making their way into SCDSB schools! These decodable readers can be used to support students as they develop and practice their decoding skills. #Literacy #EarlyLiteracy SCDSB Student Achievement

SCDSB educators, as the SyllaSense decodables readers begin to arrive at schools this week, you may want to check out the Educator Tip sheets available on their website! SCDSB Student Achievement

What a great day of learning about the evidence and research related to how students learn to read. We even had time to try out some deliberate practice activities (bit.ly/DeliberatePrac…) for students to work on while we support small groups. SCDSB Student Achievement

Sora Sweet Reads is now live! 57 featured titles including juevenile and young adult ebooks and select audiobooks, free and always available. Access through the SORA app or the desktop version. soraapp.com/library/simcoe… #SoraSweetReads SCDSB Student Achievement Simcoe County District School Board

These illlustrations are amazing. The students must have loved comparing their creation with the illustrations in the book!

So incredibly powerful! 🧡

Assessing learning skills for recently arrived newcomers can be challenging. Here is a resource to help. It includes some sample comments to get you started. docs.google.com/document/d/1ed… #OntEd #WRDSBMLL

Educators & Parents: Save the date! #IReadCanadian Day is November 8! A national celebration of Canadian books for young people, this year we have many exciting plans and different ways for you to participate. So stay tuned & make sure you add this fun event to your calendars!

We are excited to see the release of the new Ontario Language Curriculum 👏 dcp.edu.gov.on.ca/en/curriculum/…

And that’s a wrap! Wishing you all a wonderful, relaxing summer ☀️Simcoe County District School Board SCDSB Student Achievement SCDSBmusic SCDSBassessment SCDSB Leveraging Digital SCDSB Early years SCDSB Mental Health and Well-Being SCDSB DEI/ML Department @SCDSBoutdoors bonjourSCDSB SCDSB Math SCDSB_IndigenousEd

You spoke and we listened. With school right around the corner we're thrilled to offer free, downloadable, pictureless versions of SyllaSense Decodable Books. Check them out by clicking here: syllasense.com/pages/picturel…

Welcome back!! What is your favourite back to school read aloud? Let us know below! #scdsbprogram Simcoe County District School Board #literacy #kidlit

🌟SCDSB Educators🌟We have created vocabuary lessons to support you with the 23 new Character Attributes. Lessons focus on syllable types, morphology, definitions, included resources and instructional activities. bit.ly/CharacterVocab…

Welcome back everyone! The SCDSB “First 20 Days of Kindergarten” resource has been released - take a moment to look at the front matter and weekly suggestions to help you prepare, collaborate and plan for students. docs.google.com/document/d/1tM…