As my school division and our province moves into the Emergency Remote Learning arena, I will be sharing various resources that could be used by teachers with their students in an online environment. Think about what your outcomes are. Think about your students. Then look at the different resources. Check out one or two that catch your interest. And look at others as you see the need arise.
Listening, Reading, Viewing
- 2020 Online videos, VC events and lessons – all core subjects
- Aquila K-12 French read-aloud books – LOGIN, Username: aquilafrench Password: Mike845! Scroll down and click the VIEW button
- BigTimberMedia – various ebooks
- BookFlix – on LearnAlberta > ORC, students need access codes
- CAPstone Interactive – Login: linkearth, Password: lovetoread
- CrabTree eLibrary – K-9+ ebooks on variety of topics
- EPIC! – Free for educators, students need classroom code to access. How to get Remote Access.
- Goodnight with Dolly – weekly reads
- JLG Digital – unlimited access* to read K-12 books online from any device. Elementary Username: JLGELM, Password: JLGFREE
- Pinna – on-demand audio streaming service
- Raz-Kids – license needed, free for new schools thru link
- Ressources pour l’immersion française – ECSD curated FRENCH Immersion
- Storyline Online
- TumbleBooks – need public library card to access, or have school license
- Unite for Literacy
- Vooks – animated storybooks, teachers register for free.
- WordWebs – online brainstorming and playing with words, synonyms
Author/Book Readings
- Authors Everywhere – YouTube channel
- Big List of Children’s Authors Doing On-line Read-Alouds & Activities
- CBC Books – Canadian children’s writers & illustrators are sharing readings of their books online
- Circle Round podcast – folktales adapted for young children (includes advertising at beginning of each podcast)
- Dav Pilkey at Home
- Forest of Reading Fridays and Mercre-LIT – virtual author visits from the 2020 Forest of Reading title authors in English and French
- KidLitTV – Read alouds
- KidLit online schedule
- List of Children’s Authors Doing Online Read-Alouds & Activities
- Oliver Jeffers – stay at home story time
- Peachtree Publishing – Picture book virtual storytimes from some of Peachtree’s authors, available through their Instagram.
- Read Together Be Together – Penguin Random House & Parents magazine team up to provide online readings of children’s books
- Read Canadian At Home – Resources from Canadian Children’s Book Centre
- Tundra Books Virtual Story Times and Singalongs
Read-Aloud Guidelines
- Abrams
- Canadian Book Publishers (includes Orca, Pajama Press, Groundwood, Portage & Main, etc.)
- Crabtree
- Disney Worldwide Publishing (applies to Disney Press titles only)
- HarperCollins
- Holiday House (info is half-way down page)
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
- J.K. Rowling & Harry Potter Books
- Lee & Low Books
- Little Brown
- Macmillan
- Penguin Random House
- Scholastic Canada
- Simon & Schuster
Reading Comprehension
- Commonlit – Practice reading comprehension K-12. Free access to digital texts, questions with differentiated supports
- Freckle – adaptive ELA practice, teachers must register
- Lalilo – phonics and comprehension
- Readtheory – K-12 adaptive learning for reading comprehension. Teacher needs to set up a free account and can monitor student progress.
- ReadWorks – Teachers can choose readings and assign them to students. Text options – reading passages, article-a-day (boost, challenge and ELL), paired text.
- Scholastic at Home Grades 1-2
- Scholastic at Home Grades 3-5
Writing
- ReadWriteThink – wonderful writing and literacy lesson plans and activity suggestions
- Visual Thinking Strategies – Image of the Day, every weekday a new image with questions appear
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