Alberta Literacy Solutions for All Your Needs

Achieve the literacy goals outlined in the new ELAL curriculum with Pearson ebooks (available on New LearnAlberta’s Explore Resources). Pearson literacy ebooks are part of Spark Reading. These readers offer a wealth of thoughtful features designed to support you and engage your students in ways that make reading fun and impactful.

NEW! Bug Club Morphology (Grades 2-6)

Literacy Solutions: Foundational Skills, Intervention/Struggling Readers

Canadian | Connections to the Alberta English Language and Literature (ELAL) Curriculum
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Morphological awareness empowers students as both readers and writers. When the teaching of morphology is explicit, students significantly increase their vocabulary and better understand both the structure and spelling of words. They further develop their abilities in both word recognition and reading comprehension. With its engaging topics, authentic reading material, and comprehensive lessons, these kits provide everything you need for cohesive, integrated instruction in morphological awareness.

Indigenous content in Bug Club Morphology - Each kit includes three or more reading passages written by a First Nations, Inuit, and Métis author.

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Bug Club Phonics (Grades K-2)

Literacy Solutions: Foundational Skills, Intervention/Struggling Readers

Canadian Edition! Phase Classroom Packs are now available which include multiple copies of each book.

The Bug Club Phonics readers support children as they become fluent and automatic decoders. These books are 100% decodable and give children opportunities to practice their blending skills and consolidate their knowledge of letter-sound correspondences in the context of engaging texts.

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And To Support Phonics Learning, check out The Phonics Companion: 120 lessons for Teachers By George Georgiou & Kristy Dunn

The Phonics Companion (Grades K-3)

Literacy Solutions: Foundational Skills, Intervention/Struggling Readers

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The Phonics Companion supports a research-based, systematic, and explicit approach to phonics instruction that will enhance what you are doing in your broader literacy program.

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Jump Rope Readers (Grades K-2)

Literacy Solutions: Foundational Skills, Intervention/Struggling Readers, Reading & Writing Workshop

Jump Rope Readers gradually and systematically introduce beginning readers to new letter-sound correspondences and high-frequency words. Along the way, they introduce memorable characters, exciting adventures, and the foundational elements of literacy fiction.

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Units of Study (Grades K-8)

Literacy Solutions: Foundational Skills, Reading & Writing Workshop

New! K-2 Reading & Writing Editions

The Units of Study address the full range of domains emphasized by the reading research community to provide a truly research-based approach that brings the best of what we know into classrooms in ways that will spark joy and provide teachers with the tools they need to teach responsively.

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NEW! TCM Building Connections (Grades PreK-3)

Literacy Solutions: SEL/Wellbeing, Digital Library

Improve student comprehension, cooperation, and communication through a carefully curated collection of books focused on essential life skills and the whole child.

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Well Aware (Grades 4-8)

Literacy Solutions: SEL/Wellbeing, Indigeneous Perspectives

Share important positive mental health information and strategies through powerful literature and nonfiction texts.

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Smithsonian STEAM Readers (Grades K-5)

Literacy Solutions: Cross-Curricular

Build literacy skills while inspiring curiosity, perseverance, and wonder about the world.

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TIME for Kids Nonfiction Readers (Grades K-8)

Literacy Solutions: Cross-Curricular

Motivate and engage students with high-interest, nonfiction readers featuring content and photographs from TIME for Kids magazine.

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TCM Science Readers (Grades K-5)

Literacy Solutions: Cross-Curricular

Build literacy skills and science content knowledge with high-interest, appropriately levelled informational texts.

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Spark Reading (Grades K-6)

Literacy Solutions: Foundational Skills, Indigeneous Perspectives, Cross-curricular, Digital Library

A digital library with over 900 titles, including Canadian, French, and Indigenous content!
Every subscription includes exceptional books, personalization tools, and teaching/learning supports.

Bug Club Phonics decodable books are now available!

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Fountas & Pinnell Classroom (Grades K-6)

A cohesive system for high-quality literacy instruction with whole-group, small-group, and independent learning resources.

FPC Interactive Read Aloud Collection offers 120 of the best very best age-appropriate, grade-appropriate trade books representing a variety of authors, illustrators, topics, genres, themes, and text structures.

FPC Shared Reading Collection offers a whole-class or small-group activity in which children join you in reading a large-print book aloud, giving them the opportunity to engage in reading texts they would not be able to read independently

FPC Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study Systems are comprised of explicit lessons based on early literacy concepts, phonological awareness, letter knowledge, letter-sound relationships, spelling patterns, high-frequency words, word meaning/vocabulary, word structure and word-solving actions.

Reading Minilessons
Explicit, concise, purposeful lessons with a practical application in a specific area of literacy. Each minilesson engages children in inquiry that leads to the discovery and understanding of a general principle.

Writing Minilessons
Brief, focused, explicit lessons that help children understand the characteristics of effective writing and nurture their ability to write with purpose, imagination, and voice.

FPC Guided Reading
A collection filled with original, authentic books that spark engagement and wonder. Each accompanying lesson contains instruction to extend students’ reading, writing, phonics/word work, and language skills.

Independent Reading
Children read texts of their choice independently, allowing them to enjoy books, practice the reading process, and share their thinking about the books they are reading.

Book Clubs
A small-group activity in which children choose a book to read from a thematic text set and then come together for a discussion that expands their thinking about texts.

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Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment Systems (Grades K-8)

The Benchmark Assessment Systems are used to identify the instructional and independent reading levels of students with accuracy and reliability. Through original, precisely leveled texts and tools, teachers observe and quantify specific reading behaviors, and then interpret and use that data to plan meaningful, responsive teaching.

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Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (Grades K-5+)

A rigorous, small-group, supplementary, literacy intervention designed for students who find reading and writing difficult and who need intensive teaching to achieve grade-level competency. It serves as an important prevention for literacy difficulties in subsequent years of schooling. With engaging leveled books, fast-paced systematically designed lessons, and a high level of built-in professional development, LLI empowers both teachers and students as together they work toward attaining reading and writing proficiency.

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