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French Edition available: Littératie en action 4-6 from Pearson ERPI.
For Teachers – support on demand!
Orientation Support
These orientation sessions provide an overview of Literacy in Action. You can watch them in any order, anytime, and as often as you like. Each session runs between 10 to 15 minutes.
Archived Online Workshops
Previously recorded online workshops are available to be viewed and shared as needed.
For Administrators and Literacy Leaders – to build capacity in schools and districts
Building Capacity for Literacy Instruction Package* supports school-based professional learning communities that focus on effective research-based literacy instruction. Find out more about Building Capacity for Literacy.
Implementation Matters: A Resource for Leaders*
This resource is specifically designed for District Leaders, Administrators and Consultants, and includes a print publication and a CD of presentations and line masters that are referenced in it. Together, they support valuable professional learning by looking at current research, providing questions for reflection, and promoting dialogue between leaders and teachers. The five sections of the resource are:
Reflections on Research
Building Capacity: Exploring Beliefs and Understandings
Facilitator Activities to Support Orientation Sessions
Differentiated Instruction
References and Further Reading
Building on Existing Resources Literacy in Action can be used effectively with the resources you currently use in your classroom. Download this correlation chart that links Literacy in Action 4 to popular leveled book series. Links are based text type, strategy focus and topic. The correlations for Literacy in Action 5 and 6 are included in their corresponding Teacher’s Resource. Existing Resources, Grade 4
Literacy in Action explicitly focuses on three comprehension strategies in each unit.
This means you have choice around which one(s) to highlight for your students. And you can highlight the same strategy several times throughout the year.
Great for you, and great for your students.
The following correlations organize the units by strategy. This makes it easy to find the units that focus on a strategy need.
As well, each correlation includes the reading levels for all selections in that unit.
| Grade 4 (81 KB, 4 pages) | |||
| Grade 5 (103 KB, 4 pages) | |||
| Grade 6 (83.8 KB, 4 pages) |
Literacy in Action can be used effectively with the resources you currently use in your classroom. Download this correlation chart that links Literacy in Action 4 to popular leveled book series. Links are based on text type, strategy focus and topic. The correlations for Literacy in Action 5 and 6 are included in their corresponding Teacher’s Resource.
| Existing Resources, Grade 4 (18.5 KB, 3 pages) |
| Links to the Ontario Curriculum2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| % of expectations that link to Nelson Literacy |
% of expectations that link to Literacy in Action |
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| Grade 4 | Science | 23% | 36% |
| Social Studies | 12% | 55% | |
| Grade 5 | Science | 22% | 27% |
| Social Studies | 18% | 59% | |
| Grade 6 | Science | 25% | 26% |
| Social Studies | 20% | 53% |
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1 This analysis is based on correlations found within Nelson Literacy and Literacy in Action. Moving Up by Scholastic does not focus on cross-curricular connections.
2 Correlations to the WNCP Language Arts Curriculum are in development.