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Why Fluency Matters: The Key Role of Reading Fluency in Effective Assessments and Screeners
In the context of assessing a student’s reading ability, fluency refers to the ability to read text smoothly, accurately, and with appropriate speed and expression. Fluency is a key component of reading screening measures, as it often indicates how well a student can comprehend and engage with reading material at their grade level. In other…
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Empowering Young Readers by Using Assessment Data
This resource features a set of flowcharts that can help Kindergarten, grade 1 and grade 2 educators identify student skill reading needs in phonological awareness, phonics, and fluency based on universal screening data. Once the needs are identified, the flowcharts direct educators toward evidence-based instructional practices that can be used to provide reading acceleration targeted…
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Family Literacy Night
This presentation can be used at a school literacy night for families. The deck introduces Ontario’s shift to structured literacy, explaining how it supports effective reading instruction for all students. Families will learn why early reading screeners are now used in schools, the key literacy skills children need to develop to be proficient readers, and…
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Screening: The ‘Reel’ Deal
Congratulations, Ontario educators! This week marks the completion of Ontario’s first-ever beginning-of-year early reading screening window, a crucial milestone for literacy in our province. This early screening initiative follows the recommendations of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) in its Right to Read Inquiry, which highlighted the importance of identifying reading needs as early as…
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Screening: The Reel Deal
In this playlist of short videos, the ONlit team answers *your* pressing questions about screening! Dig in to explore why measures are often timed, the link between oral reading fluency (ORF) measures and comprehension, and why these ORF measures aren’t decodable.
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Spellbound: Teaching Tricks to Make Spelling Stick!
In this video series, Martha Kovack highlights tips and tricks for teaching spelling, including orthographic conventions like -ck, -tch, and -dge.
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Shifting the Balance in Upper Elementary: Book Study
These book study slides, created by Leigh Fettes and Michelle Courville, support educators as they move through Shifting the Balance: Upper Elementary. Slide decks are designed specifically for educators eager to integrate structured literacy into junior and intermediate classrooms. Details 142 slides in total: Preview Download
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Introduction to MTSS
Multi-Tiered Systems of Support is the delivery system for evidence-based instruction. This set of slides deck and corresponding speaker notes outlines key elements of MTSS: tiered instruction, data-based decision-making, collaborative problem solving, teaming and shared leadership, and a school-wide assessment system. Details 20 slides in total for a 30 – 45 minute presentation Preview Download
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Adapting Commercial Phonemic Awareness Programs
Phonemic awareness instructional programs are commonly used, but they may not always be fully aligned with research. These slides walk through several ways commercial products can be adapted, in both content and delivery, to provide the most effective phonemic awareness instruction. Details 16 slides, for a 15 minute presentation, with an opportunity for a collaborative…
