Family Language and Literacy Resources

Choose from Oral Language, Reading and Writing activities–all of them work together to provide a rich diet of learning about language and engaging with words, stories, letters and print in meaningful ways.

A Parent’s Guide to Reading at Home

From Teacher Created Materials, this page gives some tips to help you set up successful reading experiences at home.

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Turn Reading into a Conversation

Parents play a key role in fostering a love of reading

Language and Literacy Development

Language is the soil in which reading and writing take root. Helping your child develop their conversation skills and ability to express themselves provides the foundation for all other literacy skills.

The Hanen Centre has a page of parent tips that can help you with this.

You might be wondering how a book without any words could possibly help a child learn about language. You might also be wondering about how to “read” a book if there aren’t any words! Keep reading to find out…

Morgan MacDonald, (MSc, RSLP), one of our District Speech and Language Pathologists, provided this link for games that support language learning.

How Every Child Can Thrive by Five

For insight on how a game of peek-a-boo can change a child’s life, watch Molly Wright, here:

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