UFLI Foundations is a resource that offers educators structured, explicit lessons and free resources to teach foundational reading skills, aligned with the science of reading.
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Epic Books offers a wide selection of online books for all reading levels, which can be individualized for each student. The platform is highly interactive, allowing students to follow along visually while listening to the story being read aloud.
Teachflix is a free, teacher-curated video library designed to help educators quickly find high-quality, classroom-ready videos across a wide range of subjects and grade levels.
Student Treasures Publishing provides students from K-12 the opportunity to publish their writing in a class book, on a topic of their choosing. The kit is free, and provides 33 writing pages, 33 illustration pages, a Cover, Title, Dedication, and Author Page, as well as a free hardcover copy of the book for the classroom. Upon completing the book, students' families have the option to purchase a copy.
Learning Without Tears provides plans and resources with a direct connection to the Ontario curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 5.
CBC Books provides a list of Canadian children's writers & illustrators who are sharing read-alouds of their books online.
The Best Children's Books! provides a variety of book lists divided by grade/reading level to help build up your in-class library for your students.
First Nations Child & Family Caring Society provides a list of PDF downloads for the Spirit Bear series in a variety of languages, including English, French, Cree, and other Indigenous languages
The Six Shifts provides a variety of downloadable resources related to literacy development for Kindergarten to Grade 5.
Reading Rockets offers a variety of strategies for supporting literacy development in the classroom, including guidance on how to support students’ writing, and how to choose and use different types of texts effectively.
Just Right Reader provides decodable texts for pre-emergent readers, up to a Grade 2 level.
Flyleaf Publishing offers a variety of texts that target specific components of literacy, such as CVC words and digraphs, to support students’ understanding and development of foundational reading skills.
Heinemann's Blog details the why, when, and how for navigating teaching literacy with decodable texts.
Teach Hub has an article describing the difference between levelled and decodable texts, and when to use each.
4Canoes Digital Shelf is a TDSB online library that provides online access to Indigenous books.
PebbleGo Interactive E-books is an accessible online library that offers students a variety of fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels, each featuring interactive reading options to enhance engagement and comprehension.
Tumble Books is an online library that provides access to a variety of online read-alouds for different subjects. It also provides books in different languages.
TDSB Virtual Library has a variety of resources by subject and grade level, broken down by specific topics related to each curriculum subject. Some resources are TDSB specific, and require a TDSB log-in to access, however many do not.
TedTalk (Education) is a valuable resource that offers a wide range of thought-provoking videos across all subject areas. These videos can be used to enhance lessons and capture students’ interest through engaging and relevant content.
Teen Book Cloud is a resource that offers online access to a library of books and graphic novels for older students.
Unite for Literacy offers online books that allow the ability for read-to-self, and assisted reading.
Narrative-Based Games for Multimodal Literacy (click here for a video that explains this concept)
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