Get ready, get set, get going learning to read in northern Canada /

O'Sullivan, Julia.

Get ready, get set, get going learning to read in northern Canada / [electronic resource] : Learning to read in northern Canada. Julia O'Sullivan, Janet Goosney ; with the International Expert Panel. - Thunder Bay, Ont. : Centre of Excellence for Children and Adolescents with Special Needs, Lakehead University, c2007. - 1 online resource (62 p. : ill. (some col.), map) : digital file, PDF.

Includes bibliographical references: p. 55-62.

Executive summary -- Acknowledgements -- About the authors -- About the international expert panel -- Definition of "north" -- Overview -- Northern children go to school -- Growing into reading -- Northern children get ready with supportive early literacy -- Environments -- Northern children get set with language support in school -- Northern children get going with excellent school-based reading programs -- Summary and recommendations -- Appendix 1: list of best principles -- References.

Includes Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, northern Quebec, Labrador and northern Saskatchewan, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia. Includes Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children (and their parents and communities), whose mother tongue may be English, French or one of the Aboriginal languages.


Reading--Research--Canada, Northern.
Education--Canada, Northern.
Indigenous children--Education--Canada, Northern.
Reading--Canada, Northern.
Reading readiness.
Indigenous children--Education--Canada, Northern.
Literacy--Canada, Northern.

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