Based out of Victoria, British Columbia, is one of Canada's most successful and most popular book publishers for children's and young adult books. Orca is a publisher that Canadian teachers turn to for high quality fiction and non-fiction for K to 12 and we recommend that you drop in to their web site often to browse their latest titles.
Orca's outstanding offerings of Indigenous-authored titles, French titles, their Footprints Series of non-fiction titles focused on climate change, and especially their hi-lo series make this publisher an excellent source for Canadian content for your classroom. Our Education Library provides you with print copies of most Orca publications and now during the pandemic we have purchased selected titles as ebooks so you can still become familiar with the classroom resources from this premiere Canadian educational publisher.
Orca's Hi-Lo Series are available in print as Express Reads in the Library's Children's & Young Adults Collection.
In addition to the print editions we have purchased access to selected ebooks in each series so you can get a sense of the content available for use with your English language learners.
Digital collections of these Hi-Lo series are available for purchase by schools, so we have purchased unlimited simultaneous access to selected titles from the following collections for you:
Phonics stories for children aged 6-9 who are learning to read.
Meg and Greg: a Duck in a Sock by
A Duck in a Sock is the first book in a series designed for shared reading between a child learning to read and an experienced reader. The stories have special features to help a child with dyslexia or another language-based learning difficulty find reading success. Meg and Greg are hanging out for the summer doing what ten-year-olds do--helping an injured duckling, finding a lost pet fish, saving ranch animals from a wildfire and catching a wandering sloth! Jump inside to join Meg and Greg on their adventures.
Meg and Greg: Frank and the Skunk by
Frank and the Skunkis the second book in the Orca Two Read line designed for shared reading between a child learning to read or struggling to read and an experienced reader, following Duck in a Sock. The stories have special features to help a child with dyslexia or another language-based learning difficulty find reading success. Besties Meg and Greg are off to sleep-away camp for the summer! Along with your standard camp activities (swimming and making crafts) the duo have a run-in with a skunk, sing a silly song about a king, go on a canoe trip that has oneglitchafter another, and make a mess in the lodge with a fresh batch of fudge! So sit down and cozy up for another set of Meg and Greg adventures, this one focusing on the phonograms: nk, ng, tch and dge.