Literacy

Reading for fun is an essential factor for academic success.

Activity resources

Literacy • 0-5 ans

Literacy • 6-11 ans

Literacy • Teenagers and young adults

Everyone’s role

Literacy refers to a person’s ability in both aspects of the written media: reading and writing.

Educators, teachers, parents, counselors, employers, elected officials, the whole community… We all have a part to play.

What role is that?

Contributing to the development and retention of the literacy skills of everyone that surrounds us.

How can we play that role?

By offering opportunities of coming into contact with written content of high quality.
Frequent • Varied • Spontaneous • Guided
By caring about the quality of writing and reading environments
Physical • Linguistic • Social • Cultural
By considering the various dimensions of a relationship with written content:
- Feelings, tastes, preferences
- Importance given to reading and writing
- Practices and experiences
- Knowledge and skill

To all our partners who work in support of better literacy:
In order to evaluate the impact of your actions for literacy, read the reference document and analysis in the following section.

RCB’s mandate (IRC in French)

The ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur (MEES) gave the Regional Consultation Bodies on school perseverance and academic success in Québec (RCBs) the mandate to highlight the importance of reading in communities.

This mandate has three objectives:

Promote early reading and create interest for children aged 0-9 years old;
Increase and maintain interest for reading in children and young adults aged 10-20 years old;
Improve the reading and writing abilities of parents (especially those with less education) and their knowledge on the subject (MEES, Mesure dédiée à la lecture, 2017).

Read through the reference document that was created for regional consultation bodies on school perseverance and academic success.
Download the reference document (French only)

We also encourage you to read the auto-analysis document, as a complement of the reference document.
Download the analysis document (French only)

Actions and tools – Teaming up with the parents

The Centre de transfert pour la réussite éducative du Québec (CTREQ) created a document for our colleagues of the Laurentides region (PREL), which compiles ten effective practices that answer these two needs:

Improve the reading skills of parents
Make recommendations regarding how to reach parents and communicate with them

This document contains a curated selection of existing tools that meet these needs.

Aspects prioritized in the selection:

Sustainable actions
Actions that pair networking and a sharing between the different actors in the community (school, extracurricular, out-of-school)
Tools supported by evidence-based practices (developed and documented in scientific research)
Tools that consider not only the needs of children, but also those of parents (Larose, Bédard, Boutet, Couturier, Dezutter, Hasni et al., 2006)

Download the document (French only)