Structured Literacy Resources

This Supporting MLLs Within the Context of the New Ontario Language Arts Curriculum video is a 3-minute crash course on supporting Multilingual Language Learners as they develop foundational literacy sills and language conventions in the B2 and B3 strands of the new Ontario Language Arts Curriculum. 

This Oral Language Equals Literacy video will show you how oral language is essential for reading and writing. These skills should be taught together. Everything, everywhere, all at once! 

This Layers of Language video is a crash course on the layers of language, including phonemes, graphemes, morphology and etymology. The Root Word Tree Google Slides resource mentioned in the video can be downloaded for FREE at: bit.ly/rootwordtree .

The Using the Ontario Language Foundations Continuum video will show you the essential foundational literacy skills for each grade level (K-4) and will help you plan out your program for students who need to develop foundational literacy skills in English. The resource mentioned in the video is: bit.ly/langfoundations

The Using the Ontario Language Conventions Continuum video will show you the language conventions that are introduced, consolidated, and refined at each grade level from Grade 1-9.  The resources mentioned in the video are: bit.ly/langconventions, bit.ly/grammaronthego, and onlit.org

The Evidence Based Literacy Assessments video will show you how we can use literacy assessments sucah as universal screeners, diagnostic assesments, and progress monitoring to support student learning.

The Letter S: Letters and Sounds for MLLs video is a demonstration lesson video showing some key strategies for supporting Multilingual Language Learners as they learn the sounds and letters of the English alphabet. This sample lesson was adapted from Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan’s Working With English Language Learners (WELLS) 2. For an explanation of the steps for explicit instruction please see this Brookes Publishing Structured Literacy video or page 69 of Literacy Foundations for English Learners: A Comprehensive Guide to Evidence-Based Instruction by Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan (Brookes Publishing, 2020).