Free online animated books, puzzles, pdf stories, and mp3s with a selection of titles available not only in English and French but also in a variety of languages.
BookBox
OISE Literacy
This website is helpful to access all the new ideas coming from the innovative minds at OISE involving literacy. The information on this website is based on the Ontario literacy curriculum.
Media Smarts
This website supports media literacy programs and provides teachers with lesson plans to use to develop student media literacy.
A to Z Teachers Printable Books
This page contains a variety of printable books with different levels of the same story to support students at different reading levels.
Ten Great Activities: Teaching with the Newspaper
This website provides ten ideas for teaching using just a newspaper. Ideas include: read and write for meaning, read a map, sequencing, vocabulary work, find the math, and more.
Critical Media Project
This site offers diverse media projects that look at the ‘politics of identity’ with a focus on race, gender, sexuality and class. Although geared towards the high school age group, some of these projects can definitely be used in Grade 7 and 8.