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Guidance on the Revised Ontario Language Curriculums Strand B

Introduction
1. Phoneme Awareness
2. Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences
3. Word reading and spelling - Phonology
4. Word Reading and Spelling Part 2 - Morphology
5. Vocabulary
6. Reading Fluency
Summary

Introduction

Hello and welcome to this series of professional development videos on the revised Ontario Language Arts curriculum, 2023, focused in particular on Strand B of the curriculum. These videos were created by me, Professor Robert Savage at York University, in consultation with the Ontario Ministry of Education to support teachers in delivering the revised curriculum.

1. Phoneme Awareness

This video provides guidance to Kindergarten to Grade 3 teachers on effective evidenced-based phoneme awareness teaching.

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2. Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences

This video provides guidance to Kindergarten to Grade 3 teachers on effective evidenced-based letter (grapheme) to sound (phoneme) teaching.

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3. Word reading and spelling - Phonology

This video is the second of two that focuses specifically on reading and spelling, this one focusing on the role of morphology. It should be understood in close relation to the preceding videos 1 and 2 and in very close relation to video 3 that considered the role of phonology in reading and spelling.

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4. Word Reading and Spelling Part 2 - Morphology

This video is the first of two that focuses on word reading and spelling, this one focusing specifically on the role of phonology.

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5. Vocabulary

This video focuses specifically on vocabulary in reading and spelling. It should be understood in close relation to the preceding videos 1, 2, and 3 and in close relation to video 4 that considered the role of morphology in reading and spelling.

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6. Reading Fluency

This video focuses specifically on fluency in word and passage reading and spelling. The ideas here build squarely on work in all of the preceding 5 videos.

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Summary

Hello again colleagues, to this, a summary, and further actions, section of the professional development videos on the revised Ontario Language Arts curriculum, 2023. I will first summarise here what we have covered in the preceding videos, and the role of the science behind this work, before considering some prominent teaching themes that emerge across the 6 videos. Finally, we will consider the ‘next steps’, and other professional learning you might consider from here.

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References

References for all the scholarly studies coted in the videos
can be found here.