Language Curriculum Links

 The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8

• Exemplars and Literacy documents can accessed from this site.

• Think Literacy Library: Subject Specific Resources

The world's most popular text-to-speech software - and it is still free.
 

Reading and writing lesson plans listed by topic and grade. Lessons include blackline masters and weblinks, 

• Lessons
• Web Resources

Literature Issues, Kid Lit Web Sites, book awards, links to Library of Congress, The National Library of Canada.

Reading activities on-line and in pdf files providing ideas for parents to try at home.

• Kindergarten
• First Grade
• Second Grade
• Third Grade

Search for rhyming words, synonyms, antonyms, definitions, related words, similar sounding words, homophones, match consonants, match letters, find similar spellings, pictures, Shakespeare, quotations.

You can look up: collective nouns, proprietary eponyms, contronyms, heteronyms,unusual word forms, negatives without positives, numbers, word oddities, commonly misspelled words, commonly mispronounced words, commonly confused words, phone number words, word frequencies.

Parent Tip Sheets:

• 80 skills to help ease kids transition into Kindergarten
• Before the 1st Day (for Parents)
• Before the 1st Day (for children)
• What to expect of a Kindergartener
• Skills Useful in Kindergarten
  Please note: This information is based on Florida State guidelines so all information may not accurately depict services in your district. Use this as a guide only.

Reading and writing strategies listed.

This Classroom Literacy Guide is a rollup of best practices in literacy, consistent for all grade levels, that is put into a form useful for instructional planning, self-evaluation, peer-mentorship and staff development. It is the "how to" for a good literacy-based program.

• Inspiration software links to curriculum. Websites and activities are included for simple machines, plants, foodwebs, nine planets, endangered animals, news, rocks and minerals, Julius Caesar. --- Activities for Kispiration and Microsoft programs are listed.

Explanation of literacies with lessons provided -

• Visual Literacy
• Historical Literacy
• Cultural Literacy
• Infomration Literacy
• Political Literacy and News Media Literacy
• Scientific Literacy
• Mathematical Literacy

The four cuing systems explained:

1. Grapho-phonemic (knowing about print)
2. Synatactic (knowing about language)
3. Semantic (knowing about words and the world)
4. Pragmatic (knwoing about purposes or junction of reading)

Use the left menu to access fabulous literacy resources to create meaningful lessons for your students.

• Phonemic Awareness
  • Student Center Activities - Select activities by grade K-5
• Comprehension
• Differentiated Instruction
• Reading Level Coorelation Chart