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A collection of levelled stories for adult EAL learners in interactive digital and printable PDF formats. Using real images in familiar contexts, the stories build oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, and vocabulary in ways that respect adults’ backgrounds and life experience.
A set of 10 phonics-based stories for Foundation Literacy / CLB 1L learners. The stories focus on initial consonant sounds and basic vocabulary, in interactive and printable formats that build phonemic awareness and early sight-word recognition.
A printable PDF companion to the Initial Sounds Series that provides practice with initial consonant sounds. Activities focus on mouth position and phonemic awareness, with clear diagrams and short videos that help learners hear, produce, and tell sounds apart.
A short instructional video and a Teacher’s Guide for Stories 1–10 that offer practical teaching strategies for this series.
A set of 10 phonics-based stories for CLB 1L/2L learners. Using a clear problem–solution format, the stories focus on short vowel sounds and common digraphs (such as ch and ck) and are available as interactive digital stories, printable PDFs, and digital blending activities to build phonemic awareness, blending, and early sight-word recognition.
A printable PDF companion to the Short Vowels Series that provides practice with short vowel sounds. Activities review CVC words, digraphs, and consonant blends, using video-supported listening, colour-coded blending boxes, and QR-linked story practice to help learners hear, blend, and read short-vowel words.
A short instructional video and a Teacher’s Guide for Stories 11–20 that offer practical teaching strategies for this series.
A set of 10 phonics-based stories for CLB 2L/3L learners. The stories follow a clear problem–solution format, focus on long vowel sounds, silent letters, and common long-vowel spelling patterns, and are available as interactive digital stories and printable PDFs that build phonemic awareness, blending skills, and sight-word recognition.
A printable PDF companion to the Long Vowels Series that provides learners with practice in long vowel sounds. Activities review long-vowel spelling patterns and silent letters, and use video-supported listening, colour-coded blending boxes, and QR-linked story practice to help learners hear, blend, and read long-vowel words.
A short instructional video and a Teacher’s Guide for Stories 21–30 that offer practical teaching strategies for this series.
A set of 10 phonics-based stories for CLB 3L/4L learners. In a clear problem–solution format, each story combines short and long vowel patterns and is available as interactive digital versions, printable PDFs, and practice activities that help learners distinguish vowel sounds, notice spelling patterns, and build reading confidence.
A printable PDF companion to the Comparing Vowels Series that gives learners practice with short and long vowel contrasts. Activities review key patterns and use video-linked listening, practice tasks, and QR-linked story work to help learners apply vowel patterns when reading.
A short instructional video and a Teacher’s Guide for Stories 31–40 that offer practical teaching strategies for this series.
A set of five simple stories for beginning adult EAL learners, available as digital and printable PDFs that practise the five short vowels. Each story includes oral language, vocabulary, and comprehension activities to support early reading development.
A set of 10 simple stories about Kasi, Dami, and their family, organized across two printable PDF books with matching teacher guides. The stories give beginning adult EAL readers practice with beginning and ending sounds, short-vowel word families, sight words, and basic comprehension.
A series of stories by and about Indigenous creators in Canada. Each title in The Maker Series is available as an interactive digital story and a printable PDF with flashcards and simple pre-reading vocabulary support. These readers help adult EAL learners build reading fluency and vocabulary while learning about Indigenous culture and contemporary practices in a respectful, strengths-based way.
The introductory video for Canadian Indigenous Readers – The Maker Series features Suzanne, a member of the Tahltan First Nation in northwest British Columbia. She introduces the four interactive books, explains who Indigenous peoples are in Canada, and invites viewers to learn alongside Chantal, Montana, and Virginia as they make a drum, ribbon skirt, dream catcher, and bannock.
