IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Featuring Children’s and Young Adult Authors:

Shane Peacock (The boy Sherlock Holmes series), Richard Scarsbrook (Featherless Bipeds), Bill ...

FEEDBACK: YOUR WORDS

 When notified that she was one of the 2009 winning poets, teacher Anita Gormley shared her thoughts with us:

Thank you so much for the wonderful news!!  My vice principal was ...

Welcome - Our Mandate

Welcome to the website of the Toronto Reading Council. This IRA local reading council has members in the Toronto, Peel, Halton and Durham regions.

The goal of the Toronto Reading Council is to promote reading in our communities and to further teacher professional development in the areas of reading, writing and language arts.

Meet Our Executive

Upcoming conference

In, Out and About Text

Toronto Reading Council and OISE/U of T’s Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning present: In, Out and About Text on Thursday, October 17th , 2009. Featuring children’s and young adult authors: 

 

Shane Peacock (The Boy Sherlock Holmes series),

Richard Scarsbrook (Featherless Bipeds), 

Bill Slavin (The Stone Lion), 

John Cooper (Shadow Running), and

Veronika Martinova Charles (The Birdman). 

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Poetry contest
Annual Celebration of Writing

The Toronto Reading Council invites poetry writers of all ages to submit a poem to our annual celebration of writing. We want to recognize outstanding Ontario student and teacher writers. The winning poetry will be featured on our website. Winners and their schools will receive a CD with their poetry read by professionals.

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Congratulations to our Annual Celebration of Writing winners!