IXL Learning is a resource that offers lesson plan ideas and online games for students to play.
TVO Learn connects directly with the Ontario curriculum. Offers free and engaging unit plans, lesson plans, activities and assessment ideas.
Unite for Literacy offers online books that allow the ability for read to self and assisted reading
Epic Books offers online books for all levels that can be individualized for each student. Very interactive, allows for students to follow along and listen to the story while being able to visually see the words.
Teachflix offers videos of different highlights in different subjects
Student Treasures Publishing provides students the opportunity from Kindergarten to grade 12 to publish their writing in a class book for a topic of their choosing. The kit if free and provides 33 writing pages and 33 illustration pages for students, a Cover, Title, Dedication and Author Page as well as a free hardcover copy of the book for the classroom. upon completing the book 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 readings of their books online
the Best Children's Books! provides a variety of book lists divided by grade/reading level to help you 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 provides a variety of suggestions for supporting in the classroom literacy development such as how to support students writing and how to choose and use different texts
Just Right Readers provides decodable texts for pre-emergent readers to a grade 2 level
Flyleaf publishing provides a variety of texts that focus on different parts of literacy such as cvc words, digraph works, etc. to support students understanding of literacy
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 text and when to use each
4Canoes Digital Shelf is a TDSB online library that provides online access to Indigenous books
Capstone Interactive e-books is an accessible online library for students that provides a variety of fiction, nonfiction and graphic novel opinions for students that each includes an interactive reading option
Tumble Books is an online library that provides access to a variety of online read-alouds for different subjects an din 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 access however many do not)
Narrative-based games for multimodal literacy (click here for a video to better understand)