Primary Junior Literacy Teacher Resources

Welcome!

The Queen's Education Library supports your teaching of Language with:

• the best children's literature to introduce and teach topics in the Language curriculum
• book lists to help you integrate children's literature into your teaching
• decodable readers and phonics kits
• levelled reader series with teacher guides
• lesson plans written for the Ontario curriculum
• kits and online video selected for their connection to topics in the curriculum
• print and online access to the best professional books and journals for PJ literacy teachers

Email me if you have recommendations to add to this teacher guide.

From the Canadian Children's Book Centre, always our go-to for the best Canadian children's books, a Tackling Racism Reading List.

From Publisher's Weekly:  A Children's and YA Anti-Racist Reading List

From Education Week:  15 Classroom Resources for Discussing Racism, Policing and Protest

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
An index to children's & YA books by subject. The database does not include full text but it is useful for creating a booklist on any K-12 topic. You can search by topic, age, grade, and limit by many other categories, including country of publication.

From the International Literacy Association (US)

• The Reading Teacher (the ILA's flagship journal for teachers of reading and writing.  The annual Choices Reading Lists are open access and excellent guides to the best literature published for young people annually.
• Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

From the National Council of Teachers of English (US)

• Language Arts (for teachers of pre-K to grade 8)
• Voices From the Middle (for teachers of grades 6 to 8)
• English Journal (for high school English teachers)

Language & Literacy (Canadian; open access)

From the National Association for the Teaching of English (UK) 

Primary Matters (sample articles with lesson plan ideas for K to 3 teachers)