Literacy in Bloom: Intentional Design for Kindergarten

This interactive workshop “Literacy in Bloom: Intentional Design for Kindergarten,” will dive into the powerful intersection of environmental design, play-based learning, and literacy instruction, all within the framework of the Ministry of Education’s Full-Day Kindergarten document and How Does Learning Happen? Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years. Led by an Ontario Certified Teacher (OCT) and a Registered Early Childhood Educator (RECE), participants will explore how to intentionally craft engaging learning environments and activities that organically foster emergent literacy skills while also providing targeted literacy instruction. Through hands-on experiences and collaborative discussion, attendees will discover practical strategies for embedding reading, writing, oral communication, and media literacy across all learning domains, with the added benefit of optional French language activities to support dual-language learners.