12/08/2024
Published in Maclean's, written by Metsala "How Structured Literacy Will Upend Canadian Education"
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"Since the ’80s, Canadian school systems have favoured “balanced literacy”—closely related to the “whole language” approach—which places emphasis on oral language and prediction. Students were encouraged to use cues from sentence structure, pictures, letter-sound connections and other context clues to discern the meaning of what they were reading, rather than receiving explicit instruction on how to read. When students came across words they didn’t know, they’d use a carrier sentence they may have memorized, like “The boy ran up to the...” then guess the new word—“truck”—from the picture on the page. Some students did learn to read using this cueing method, but as of 2019, at least a quarter of Grade 3 students didn’t meet the Ontario provincial reading standard. "
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"Research suggests that when we explicitly teach children the relationships between letters and sounds—and how to use them—it helps them to read and spell. This approach is part of a suite of evidence-based practices sometimes called “structured literacy.” Using this model, even students who are new to Canada—those who may be learning English at the same time as they’re learning how to read—can learn to decode words as well as native speakers. It helps give everyone a fair shot. "
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ACPI - Association canadienne des professionnels de l'immersion Ontario Modern Language Teachers' Association - OMLTA Ontario Ministry of Education Ontario Human Rights Commission Canadian Parents for French Ministère de l’Éducation Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers - CASLT Min. Stephen Lecce Min. Jill Dunlop
Patrimoine canadien Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada
