M.Leone's Language Blog

Hi everyone! Thank you for coming back to my language blog! In my first blog post, I told you all that I would be writing a blog for each of the four strands in the Ontario Language curriculum and since I have already made three posts… you guessed it! This is my final blog post! ☹ This blog will cover oral communication as its topic of focus, but I must say I am very sad for these blogs to end. They have allowed me to reflect on critical issues and explore resources to help teach each of the four language strands, and I believe they truly helped deepen my understanding of what it means to teach language. Without further ado; however, let’s get started! The important issue in oral communication that I would like to talk about with you all today is providing authentic and engaging contexts for students to participate in speaking, and just as importantly, listening. The Ontario language curriculum states that students will listen, respond, use speaking skills and strategies in a v...

Hello readers!! Welcome back to my literacy blog where I am covering some resources or an important topic in each of the four strands in the Ontario language curriculum !! The strand I will be covering this week is writing!! Writing is an essential portion of the language curriculum and yet when I searched some resource banks provided to us, I found that resources for teaching writing were much scarcer than those for reading and even media literacy! I hope I can share my opinions on an important writing topic with you during this blog and even show you some cool resources and applications for teaching writing! The important issue that I would like to share with you all is collaborative writing and how that can be a hugely beneficial activity for you to engage in with your students. While the resources we looked at explored how collaborative writing between a teacher and their students can be impactful because the teacher can model strong writing and reviewing especially for the...