Introduction

Learning Through Literacy is ONlit’s approach to integrated structured literacy instruction aligned with the Ontario Language Curriculum. Each grade level includes a selection of connected practices that show students how language, literacy, and curriculum areas work together through engagement with meaningful, Canadian content. The collection is growing, so not every grade includes every element listed here, and additional components will continue to be added across our project year.

Across the resource, educators will find features such as high-quality mentor texts, explicit vocabulary routines, structured writing supports grounded in the thinkSRSD approach, fluency practice, and contextualized syntax lessons drawn from authentic texts. These elements appear in different combinations depending on the grade, and are designed to connect literacy instruction with curriculum expectations in science, social studies, the arts, and health.

The goal is to offer coherent, research-aligned supports that help students experience reading and writing as mutually reinforcing skills. Instruction is anchored in meaningful content, clear routines, and evidence-based practices so all learners can grow as readers, writers, and thinkers.

I think, therefore I am.

Réné Descartes

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Column 1 Title	Column 2 Title
B2 this is a really long title	Phonics are great
C1 this is an even longer sentence	Comprehension is better
D2 this is a compound sentence and it is very well written	Published books are fabulous
Specific Expectations	As students progress through Kindergarten, they: – A2: apply early reading and writing skills – A2.4: identify simple grapheme-phoneme correspondences – A2.5: read and spell simple words using phonemic awareness and phonics knowledge
Language Foundations Continuum	Grapheme-phoneme correspondence: Understanding the relationship between simple and high-frequency graphemes (letters or combinations of letters) and the phonemes (units of sound) they represent Looks like… Producing the most common grapheme for each consonant sound, and the most common phoneme for each consonant grapheme, including: – single consonants <s> as in sat, has – <ch> – <ck> – <sh>

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