Developmentally progressive instruction allows children to learn handwriting. An open-educational resource by literacy and writing experts supports instruction for kindergarten to Grade 3 children.
Intentionally integrating vocabulary into conversations from topics children are curious about helps grow children’s language skills.
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Engaging in purposeful, meaningful and strategic conversations with children can directly support children’s language comprehension, an important component of reading.
In a research study on the accessibility of French immersion, one parent was told she faced a three-year wait to access reading supports for her child.
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Parents in a study about the accessibility of French immersion programs discussed inadequate support for learning to read and feeling pressured to pay for expensive tutors.
We can and should support both student mental health and student academic achievement, because they affect each other.
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A key way to support mental health and well-being is to support strong reading instruction especially early in children’s education.
Before going out, instead of doing the planning yourself, ask your child to help plan or map out the route, read a map, decide what to pack and check and prepare for the weather.
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Handwriting is a learned skill that must be taught through direct, developmentally progressive, consistent and sustained instruction. Teachers will need professional development and resources.
A teacher tells a story to a group of students.
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Having a vast and deep vocabulary affords precision and nuance in making meaning of the world, and this is key to children becoming proficient readers.
While there’s no single solution to the crisis, a range of approaches can help to bolster children’s literacy.
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These interventions have the potential to boost South African children’s literacy.
Goosebumps are the latest children’s classics to be embroiled in the revisions controversy.
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Let Dahl’s books be seen for what they are: things of the past, to be appreciated as such.
The folded paper decorated with messages, numbers and fortunes printed under the flaps can spark conversation at gatherings or be given as a birthday card.
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It’s important to keep in mind public speaking has two parts to it: writing the speech and delivering it.
Cognitive skills related to overall reading success can be nurtured by engaging in activities that develop social skills and positive self-regulation.
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Cognitive skills related to early literacy can be nurtured this summer by engaging in activities that develop social-emotional skills and positive self-regulation.
If teachers were to only address the skills, knowledge and referral protocols that Ontario’s Human Rights Commission recommends, students wouldn’t have essential knowledge to support their reading.
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Direct instruction matters in learning to read, but reading can’t happen unless children are supported in making connections to what they know and their experiences.
A Syrian woman with her children, displaced by the Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria, speaks with a Kurdish worker at the Bardarash camp, north of Mosul, Iraq, in October 2019.
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Children in an Oji-Cree northern First Nation are learning traditional teachings about ‘Namebin’ (suckers) and working on literacy skills at the same time through a community literacy project.
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary