A One-Stop Shop for Teaching Foundational Skills

Professional Learning On Demand: The Joyful Literacy Legacy Collection

Pre-K to Grade 3

The Joyful Literacy Legacy Collection will provide all the support you need for your children to master the five Foundational Skills at each grade level K to 3. Professional learning with flexible timing! Stream, download, and print resources as needs arise.

  • 35 video workshops

  • Six sets of Skill-tracking tools

  • Hundreds of centre games

  • A weekly planning guide

  • Assessment strategies for each skill

  • A Proven Intervention Strategy: The Blitz

  • Parent Coaching Videos and Home Activities

  • Dr. Janet Mort's three digital books

  • The Summer Video Reading Boost Program

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Introducing the Professional Learning On Demand Collection

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Key Benefits

  • Professional Learning Experiences at Your Convenience

    Five one-hour workshops that can be experienced on your school or district schedule: staff meetings, new teachers, in grade groupings, or district Pro D Days – anytime that is convenient for you.

  • Skill Mastery is the Key: The ‘Program’ is Secondary

    The authentic Science of Reading Research emphasizes that Foundational Skill mastery is critical to fluent reading by grade three. Our JL package is designed to ensure this goal is achieved. This resource can be easily integrated with and enhance any existing program or literature based approach.

  • Flexible Timing for Professional Learning

    Individual teachers or grade-groups or school and district staff can engage in professional learning as needs arise, as resources are needed, and as personal/professional time and funding permits. Historical roadblocks are eliminated.

  • Focus on Five Highest Priority Skills Plus

    Research identifies: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension as the highest priority skills for children to master in their earliest experiences. Our resource features each of these skills and more advanced skills too.

  • Teacher Support Resources for Five Essential Skills Plus

    Goodbye Teachers Pay Teachers! Our resource provides hundreds of instructional videos, video workshops, proven games and practice activities, screening, assessment and data collection tools, digital JL books, international expert input.

  • Ongoing Assessments = Path to Mastery for 85%

    Some children fall behind because they need more explicit instruction than others – only possible through targeted small groups. Teachers need tools to screen, assess and track skill advancement weekly. We provide these teacher-friendly tools.

  • Innovative Interventions are the Solution!

    The Joyful Literacy ‘Blitz’ strategy has proven to be an effective tool that doubles reading levels at the K/1 level in one year. Our resources provide teachers with practical strategies and resources for boosting reading levels and closing literacy gaps.

  • Expertly Curated and Dynamically Presented Resources

    The resources in this package have been developed and field tested in classrooms in the last five years. It will provide your teachers with years’ worth of professional learning resources that have been expertly curated and neatly organized in a single place.

  • Lifetime Access to Rich Literacy Resources

    The purchase of this package will provide schools or districts with a lifetime access to a rich collection of proven, science-based professional development resources that can be printed, downloaded, and streamed.

Included in our incredible professional learning package

  • Mastering Foundational Skills: A Teacher Guide

    September to June: Month by Month Instructions

    Our team has developed proven strategies for ensuring that Foundational Skills can be mastered by 85% of a class. The guide describes how teachers can achieve that. The magic is in the interactive links that teachers can easily use.

    View September Teacher Guide Sample

  • Hundreds of Games and Classroom Activities!

    200+ Printable Games and Activities

    Early Childhood Researchers have proven that young children learn best through play and practice. We have ‘gone the extra mile’ to provide access to hundreds of proven literacy strategies that children love as they practice the five Foundational Skills.

  • Foundational Skill Teaching Instructions and How-To Guides

    Covering All Foundational Skills

    We describe the research base for each Foundational Skill; explicit instructions on how to assess each skill; specific examples that confirm when mastery is achieved; and when more instruction and practice is needed.

  • X Marks Mastery Screening & Tracking Tool

    14 X Marks Mastery Charts

    These Charts support teachers with a tool that: details Foundational Skills, provides instructions on how to assess them, records each child’s skill mastery and analyses data so that grouping for interventions becomes simple.

  • Professional Learning Videos On Demand

    6 Video Presentations from Literacy Experts

    Unlock on-demand professional learning with expert-led videos on the alphabet, phonemic awareness, fluency, comprehension, vocabulary. word study, and intervention. Instant access to essential strategies – anytime, anywhere.

  • Joyful Literacy Summary Videos

    18 Videos with over 9 Hours of Practice

    Dr. Janet Mort and Dianne Bassendowski enthusiastically dialogue and story-tell about proud successes and key issues they have faced as they implemented highly successful Joyful Literacy strategies in numerous school districts.

  • Curated Links to More Resources and Games

    50+ Links to our Favourite Resources

    Discover even more helpful resources across the web. Explore links to our favourite websites for literacy games, articles, and videos created by literacy experts around the world.

  • Our Top Literacy Articles

    100+ Pages of Our Top Literacy Articles

    Access our collection of research-based articles on each of the top literacy skills. You will gain insight into the skills and the tools you need to support your students.

  • Joyful Literacy Digital Books

    Two of Our Best Selling Books

    Joyful Literacy Interventions Part 1: Early Learning Classroom Essentials and Joyful Literacy Interventions Part 2: Putting on The Blitz which cover practical strategies for rapidly closing literacy gaps.

  • Summer Literacy Boost Videos for Parents

    5+ Hours of Professional Learning Videos

    Empower parents with on-demand summer support videos! Parents will learn about essential literacy skills and explore 100s of fun, easy activities to boost these skills at home and beyond—all summer long!

  • Born to Read: Literacy Resources for Parents

    20 Videos + Handouts + Digital Book

    This bundle includes 21 videos, 20 handouts, and a digital copy of the Born to Read book. These resources equip parents with the knowledge and practice strategies to teach the five most important literacy foundational skills at home.

Free Sample Content

Professional Learning Video Samples

These videos represent the most important foundational skills (pillars) that the research identifies for children to read fluently. The sixth video identifies intervention approaches that have proven to work.

Digital Book Samples

  • Joyful Literacy Interventions Part 1: Early Learning Classroom Essentials

    Joyful Literacy Interventions Part 1 combines over 40 years of expertise, research, and practical strategies to create a comprehensive classroom approach that ensures literacy success for 85% of children.

    View Part 1 Book Jacket

  • Joyful Literacy Interventions Part 2: Putting on The Blitz

    Joyful Literacy Interventions Part 2 covers playful “Blitz” interventions, individualized skill tracking, structured assessments, and interactive games to rapidly close literacy gaps for vulnerable children, ensuring effective and engaging learning.

    View Part 2 Book Jacket

Literacy Games Samples

  • Rhyming Bridge

    A fun, active phonological awareness game where students move, sing, and create rhymes together!

    View Rhyming Bridge Game

  • Goooaaalll!!!

    A fast-paced soccer game where students read words and flick milk caps to score points!

    View Goooaaalll!!! Game

  • Ninja Chop

    Crawl, roll, and identify words before chopping them in half—add ninja music for extra excitement!

    View Literacy Ninjas Game

X Marks Mastery Charts Samples

  • Alphabet Knowledge

    Monitor recognition, sounds, and mastery of upper-case and lower-case alphabet letters over time.

    View Alphabet X Chart

  • Phonological Awareness

    Track students' progress in rhyming, isolating blending, segmenting, sound manipulation and more.

    View PA X Chart

  • Vocabulary

    Record students’ development of oral vocabulary, word knowledge and usage and see their growth throughout the year.

    View Vocabulary X Chart

Frequently Asked Questions

A Team of Dynamic, Skilled Professionals

Our Joyful Literacy (JL) Team is led by Dr. Janet Mort and includes exceptional classroom teachers, international researchers and authors, and numerous literacy experts. Since 2013, the JL Team has hosted over 35 in-person and online literacy summits, attracting over 15,000 teachers across North America and the world. Our play-based literacy framework is proven to achieve 85% success rates for early readers and is the foundation of our incredible professional learning resources.

Included in Every License

  • Lifetime Access

    Your license is a one-time purchase and provides you with lifetime access to all of the resources. There are no hidden fees or pesky subscription renewals.

  • Secure Payment Options

    Joyful Literacy will process your license using secure payment option of your choice, including credit card, cheque, and purchase order.

  • Personalized Support

    License holders can contact the Joyful Literacy team to receive support with accessing, downloading, or streaming their professional learning resources.

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