Links
Ottawa
- Alternative Learning Styles and Outlooks (ALSO)
- CNIB - Literacy Program for Deafblind Adults
- John Howard Society
- Ki2ds - Sens @ School
- Library and Archives Canada
- MindWare Educational Services
- OCRI (Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation
- Ottawa Catholic School Board
- Ottawa Community Coalition for Literacy
- Ottawa Deaf Centre
- Ottawa Public Library
- Ottawa Storytellers
- Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
- Parent Resource Centre Ottawa
- People, Words & Change
- Rag and Bone Puppet Theatre
- Step Into Stories and the Ottawa International Writer’s Festival
National
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ABC CANADA
Family Literacy Day information
- Association of Canadian Publishers: Canadian books in school libraries
- Canadian Authors Association
- Canadian Coalition for School Libraries
- Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators, and Performers
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Grass Roots Press
Specializes in Adult Literacy and ESL resources for educators, students and parents
- Movement for Canadian Literacy
- National Adult Literacy Database
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National Film Board
Storyboard workshops
- Raise A Reader
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Scholastic Canada
Canadian source for assisted technology
Games
- Aesop’s Fables
- Aliens Dialogue
- Between the Lions
- Bitesize Games
- CVC Maker
- Canada Goose Rhymes
- Fun Brain
- Idioms Game
- List of Metaphors & Similes
- Merriam Webster’s Word Central
- Myths & Legends
- Pirate Spelling
- Sort Verbs, Nouns & Adjectives
- StarFall
- Synthetic Phonics
- Tale Time Audio Stories
- The Adjective Detective
- The Education Place
- The Kidz Page
- What Are Nouns?
Literacy Resources
- American Red Cross Learning To Read Resources
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CODE’s Project Love
A great opportunity for Canadians to act as global citizens by sending much-needed literacy materials to students and teachers in developing countries. The program talks to young people about international development in terms they can understand. And it gives them a hands-on activity to help global neighbours their own age.
- Dyslexia Teacher
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Early Literacy
Compilation of research, strategies, and resources for teachers and parents from Saskatchewan
- Frontier College Literacy Resources
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Jump Math
Great plain language math program that’s affordable and follows the provincial math curriculum
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Kathy’s Schrock’s Guide for Educators
Discovery Kids™—The best resource on the net for finding anything you need
- Learning Disabilities Online
- Penguin K–12 Teaching Guides
- Readers Theatre K–3
- Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers
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The Literacy Project
A resource for teachers, literacy organizations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning.
- United Nations Literacy Decade (2003–2012)
Authors
- Arnold, Tedd
- Aylesworth, Jim
- Berkowitz, Jacob
- Bianchi, John
- Blume, Judy
- Bradford, Karleen
- Brett, Jan
- Bridwell, Norman
- Brown, Marc
- Buffie, Margaret
- Carle, Eric
- Carlson, Nancy
- Carter, Anne Laurel
- Chan, Gillian
- Cleary, Beverly
- Crook, Connie Brummel
- Cumming, Peter
- Dahl, Roald
- DePaola, Tomie
- Edwards, Frank B
- FitzGerald McCurdy, J
- Fitzgerald, Joanne
- Fodi, Lee Edward
- Fox, Mem
- Galloway, Priscilla
- Gibbons, Gail
- Gilman, Phoebe
- Guest, Jacqueline
- Holub, Joan
- Hughes, Monica
- Hundal, Nancy
- Kropp, Paul
- Lunn, Janet
- Major, Kevin
- Martin, Ann
- Martin, Bill Jr.
- McDonnell, Kathleen
- McFarlane, Sheryl
- McKay, Sharon E.
- McMillan, Bruce
- Morgan, Allen
- Most, Bernard
- Munsch, Robert
- Numeroff, Laura
- Oberman, Sheldon
- Oppel, Kenneth
- Osborne, Mary Pope
- Park, Barbara
- Parker, Marjorie Blain
- Paterson, Katherine
- Pilkey, Dav
- Polacco, Patricia
- Quackenbush, Robert
- Rowling, J.K.
- Schwarzkopf, Tom
- Scieszka, John and Smith, Lane
- Seuss, Dr.
- Stevens, Janet
- Stewart, Donna
- Sulzenko, JC
- Ungar, Richard
- Walters, Eric
- Wells, Rosemary
- Wood, Audrey
- Yolen, Jane
