Language and Literacy Resources

Handbook of Language and Literacy Development

http://theroadmap.ualberta.ca/speech_languages/taxonomies

This is a great resource to use. It helps you remember important milestones that children should be reaching at specific ages. You can reference this when building your case notes and building goals.

Reading Rockets

https://www.readingrockets.org/

Reading rockets provides a great breakdown on understanding language development. It provides specific activities to build phonological awareness.

ToolKit for Parents

http://albertahandsandvoices.com/wpcontent/uploads/2017/11/Toolkit_Complete_whole.pdf

This PDF provides information on basics such as communication basics, hearing basics.

The Listening Room

https://thelisteningroom.com/

The Listening Room features three sections with content created specifically for their respective age groups: Infants & Toddlers, Kids, and Teens & Adults.

The Moog Center for Deaf Education

https://www.moogcenter.org/

At the bottom of the home page you can access language resources and activities to implement on your own.

Baby Hearing

https://www.babyhearing.org/language-learning

Use this website to help understanding the best early intervention tips for babies with hearing loss.

Deaf Children Learning

http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/ndcs/ndcs_resources.php

Use this website to build children with hearing loss stronger working memory. Also provides links to deaf associations and supporting organizations.

Literacy Assessment

https://www.edutopia.org/article/starting-year-adaptable-literacy-preassessments

This article highlights the different assessments that teachers can use to better understand their students language profile.

Visual Phonics

http://seethesound.org/

A website dedicated to advocating for visual phonics. Visual phonics focuses on providing access to all people with the use of their own hand gestures.

Gallaudet University

https://www3.gallaudet.edu/clerc-center/info-to-go/literacy.html

A database of resources connected to the Deaf University Gallaudet.

Central Institute for the Deaf

https://cid.edu/

This website is useful to parents, students, and teachers. There are many resources, and training programs that can be completed to better assist your skills in working with DHH children.

Florida Center for Reading Research

https://www.fcrr.org/

Many teachers use this website for their lesson planning as it does a great job in breaking down activities to age group and learning goal.

Read Write Think

http://www.readwritethink.org/

This site gives access to thousands of different specific activities and strategies to use.

Heggerty Curriculum

https://heggerty.org/curriculum/pre-k/

A 35-week phonemic awareness curriculum that teachers can pay for to implement daily phonemic awareness lessons.

Starfall

http://www.starfall.com/

Starfall Education is an online site that contains kids games, movies, and books. Great for kindergarten to grade three.

Intervention Central

https://www.interventioncentral.org/

Resources on academic, behavioural, interventions.

Graphic Organizers

https://www.educationoasis.com/printables/graphic-organizers/

Free graphic organizers.

IEP Goals

https://www.bridges4kids.org/IEP/iep.goal.bank.pdf

A bank full of appropriate IEP goals to use.

Tier of Words

https://www.superduperinc.com/handouts/pdf/182_VocabularyTiers.pdf

Explains the difference between tier 1 to tier 3 words.

UDL Goals

https://goalbookapp.com/toolkit/v/strategies

This is a great bank of goals and strategies that all focus on the Universal Design of Learning.

Edugains

http://www.edugains.ca/newsite/HOME/index.html

This site focuses on giving resources specifically to Ontario teachers. It will transfer over to the new link in June 2021: https://www.dcp.edu.gov.on.ca/en/

Deaf Literacy

https://www.deafliteracy.ca/

Programs and forums for teachers of the deaf to access and continue lifelong learning.