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Excited to be organizing our first delivery of decodable texts from Pearson All Elementary Simcoe County District School Board will be receiving these and more! #literacy

I am really looking forward to this! 👇 Stephen Lecce @docshoey Ontario Today The OHRC Education Ontario

👇This is it in a nutshell. The scholarship displayed in the Western University official response to the The OHRC commissions #RightToRead report is shockingly poor.

After we learn a new sound it becomes the “secret password” for entering the classroom, allowing for several extra daily repetitions. The kids ❤️ it - and don’t worry about the ones who forget; if they don’t copy the child in front of them I supply the sound for them to repeat.

Every October across Canada, monuments and buildings are lit up red, and schools and workplaces wear red, to officially declare the month of October as #DyslexiaAwarenessMonth. ❤ For ways to #MarkItRead, visit: dyslexiacanada.org/en/mark-it-read Dyslexia Canada #CelebratingProgress

The Simcoe County District School Board is pleased to introduce Canada’s first Graduation Coach for LGBTQ Students, Don Latondress. We value the diversity and identity of our students and staff.

Great to see our families ⁦Forest Hill Public School⁩ open house tonight! We are working together to #markitread with ⁦⁦Dyslexia Canada⁩ and the ⁦Springwater Library⁩ . Don’t forget to check out the book fair!

Want to know why early readers should be taught to read even pseudo-words like FECT, LISH, DREN, NAM, AND MEM? It’s so that, later, they’ll have no problem reading other, more complex words.

📢SCDSB Educators-check out the Literacy Site under Reading or Resources to access 8 decoding strategy posters. These would be a great replacement for "Eagle Eye" etc., when working on world level decoding skills. This link will take you directly there: sites.google.com/scdsb.on.ca/sc…

Educators, you could share with the adults in your students' lives to support early reading development. file:///G:/.shortcut-targets-by-id/1MRvU-DWUiGAvP0U8hOTx0xO8I9kg7q0w/Literacy%20Central/2022-2023/Home%20Support/Supporting%20Reading%20Development%20at%20Home.pdf

📢SCDSB Educators 👉 This Sample Structured Literacy Block planning template is available on the website: sites.google.com/scdsb.on.ca/sc… Thanks IDA Ontario for the clear definition of Structured Literacy.

Holly Lane - Thank you for engaging in conversations with educators on social media. We are all #BetterTogether 😀 docs.google.com/document/d/1GW…

Lots of interesting discussions and collaboration today while these gr. 7 students worked to solve a version of Einstein's zebra logic puzzle! Solution still TBD.. @OrchardParkPS Stephen Kemp

📋Have you heard of Phinder?! This website is an awesome option if you are looking for high frequency words to use with upper grades for word study. Provides you with a list of words that include a specific phoneme-grapheme correspondence #literacy UF Literacy Institute Devin Kearns

The list of decodable texts that can be to used in the classroom/ shared with families continues to grow! Here are 6 that you can access for FREE online: SCDSBliteracy #DecodableTexts #EduTwitter #Literacy

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

A collection of word-diagrams on explicit instruction inspired by the book, ‘Explicit Instruction: Effective & Efficient Teaching’ by Anita Archer & Charles A. Hughes. 📙 explicitinstruction.org 📥 bit.ly/3qWqY1E

I’m often asked for my literacy book recommendations, and today I’m breaking down my favourites into categories - check out this 🧵 to find the next book to meet where you are on your professional journey!

Fieldcrest was rocking our socks today for Canadian Down’s syndrome day.