We are excited to share our 2020 Annual Report! Throughout the countless barriers we all faced during the pandemic, IDA Ontario would like to sincerely thank everyone that has continued […]
Last year hundreds of people participated in Read October and helped us raise money for dyslexia awareness. IDA Ontario would like to sincerely thank all who participated - we are […]
NEW: Mini-grants to help public libraries purchase decodable books!
IDA Ontario would like to thank the Ontario Human Rights Commission's (OHRC) lead lawyers on the Right to Read Inquiry, Reema Khawja and Nika Farahani, for attending our Parent Conference […]
OHRC Update on the Right to Read Inquiry May 5th, ...
Robyn’s Story I’ve been working as a remedial literacy specialist here in Toronto for the last 10 years. As a young child, I struggled with reading and writing in school and […]
Member Profile: Robyn Keystone – Literal Change
The Simple of View of Reading clearly shows that students must develop both oral language comprehension and word recognition skills as the foundation for successful reading comprehension. The play-based Kindergarten […]
Teaching foundational skills for word recognition in Kindergarten
“In Grade 9, a week before school started, I was told I would never get my high school diploma. That crushed me. I gave up and didn’t see the […]
Vikki Pike: Fighting for My Right To Read
We are very pleased to provide a new and wonderful French video resource, L'enseignement des correspondances graphème-phonème. This french language video was created by Elisabeth Beaulieu, sponsored by the Conseil scolaire […]
New video: French letter-sound correspondences
Implementing structured literacy instruction in the kindergarten classroom: A three-part webinar series by Emily Moorhead In this three-part series, Emily Moorhead discusses and demonstrates the implementation of structured literacy instruction […]
Structured Literacy for Kindergarten Teachers
One of the most common questions we get is “reading with my child doesn’t seem to be working, what else can I do help them learn to read?” Last year […]