⭐️Ontario boards and educators using (or interested in) Acadience for early reading screening: ⭐️Acadience has recently launched a website specifically to support the use of Acadience in Ontario (including free information webinars). ⭐️Check it out: acadiencelearning.org/ontario-canada…

Thrilled to release Les fondements essentiels a l'enseignement de la lecture, de l'écriture et de l'orthographe - our decoding/spelling course for Francophone and FI educators! Module 1 available now, more to come! Mille mercis to AlphaGraphe & Allyson Cousineau Grant!!

One thing I’ve learned in my 20+ years of teaching is that no resource, no matter how amazing it is, can teach a child to read. The magic is in the instruction. These decodable books from Scholastic Canada are fantastic but what makes the books decodable is the instruction BEFORE

To all of my former staff this is learning that I would highly recommend!

"I graduated High School this week. When my dad said he had a present for me I thought I was getting some cheesy graduation card. But what I received was something truly priceless. Following the ceremony he handed me a bag with a copy of "Oh The Places You'll Go" by Doctor

What’s morphology got to do with reading and writing? EVERYTHING!!!! “In its simplest form, morphology is the structure of words and their meanings.” @julie_scali Putting research into classroom practice to ensure greater success for every student, this FREE resource is a

Such fun presenting with Alicia Smith this morning. Thanks for the opportunity, OLA!

My goal is to have every single one of my Year 2 #FDK students reading 100 French words by the end of the year. Here’s how we do it: ✅Collaboration with other classroom educators ✅Daily visual review of sounds ✅Daily decoding of syllables ✅Daily decoding of simple,

This quote from Brock Education Professor Dr. Sharon Abbey published as a letter to the editor in Toronto Star is a shining example of all that is wrong with university teacher training in Ontario. #RightToRead thestar.com/opinion/letter…

I REALLY wish I’d had these REALLY Great Reading strategies 10 years ago! Really Great Reading Instead of telling students to memorize irregular words, teach them the “regular” parts of the word and learn the irregular parts by ❤️! Lesson plans and teacher scripts included! This

Screening, assessing and monitoring, oh my! There is so much incredible learning happening right now Limestone District School Board! In response to the The OHRC report, LDSB is ready for mandated screening in September 2024! Thanks to Erika Chesnick for her leadership!🎉

Lots of controversy after my post about explicit, systematic instruction! Discussions are good! But watch what happens when, yesterday, I decided to take an inquiry-based approach in a literacy lesson…. I asked students to guess the meaning of a new word (Château). Two

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Just released: Right to Read Inquiry Status Report from @OHRC. This report outlines the key changes made by Education Ontario and the critical work yet to be done. dyslexiacanada.org/en/blog/dyslex…

Today, the OHRC released the two-year anniversary report of the #RightToRead Inquiry, in collaboration with Dyslexia Canada. It provides an update on the progress achieved to date.

In Search of Leadership As democratic nations adjust to a world where friends have suddenly become foes private and public sector leaders must shift their thinking and consider their existence without the United States we once new and trusted. linkedin.com/posts/keith-ed…

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