- Reading Rockets – A national public media literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.
- Indigenous Storybooks – Indigenous Storybooks is a Canadian website for children, families, community members, and educators. Inspired by the open-licensed stories from Little Cree Books, this project aims to make the text, images, and audio of stories available in Indigenous languages as well as English, French, and the most widely spoken immigrant and refugee languages of Canada. A story that is read in English or French at school can be read in ancestral languages by parents and children at home. In this way, Indigenous Storybooks provides access to stories in ancestral languages as well as English and French. Similarly, the audio versions of the stories can help beginning readers and language learners make the important connection between speech and text. Here is a video introducing the Indigenous Storybooks project.
- Story of Claire and her Grandfather (Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada) – Designed to enhance young people’s awareness of some of the many contributions and inventions by Aboriginal people. A glossary of words used in the story is provided at the end of this publication. The story is in both print and audio formats.
- Storybooks Canada – Storybooks Canada is a free open educational resource that promotes literacy and language learning in homes, schools, and communities. It makes 40 stories from the African Storybook available with text and audio in English, French, and the most widely spoken immigrant and refugee languages of Canada. We are also developing Indigenous Storybooks and the Global Storybooks literacy portal.
