SWLSB Homeschooling Resources by Laura Tortorici

Homeschooling Information Site

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Information on the Homeschooling process and steps, as well as support for parents as outlined by the DEM.

Guide for Parent-Educators

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The updated version of the Homeschooling guidelines for the DEM.

Secure Site for Homeschool Providers

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The link you need in order or create/access the DEM secure site to regiser your child and provide documents.

Homeschooling Regulation

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The law regarding Homeschooling in Quebec.

Quebec Education Program

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Quebec's curriculum for Preschool, Elementary and Secondary education. Information on subject overviews, competencies, progressions of learning and essential knowledges.

Ministerial Examinations & Evaluations of Learning in Elementary and Secondary School

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Information on ministerial examinations, achievement record, evaluation and document requests.

Book Loan Request Form

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Please submit this form along with your child's Learning Project to homeschooling@swlauriersb.qc.ca to loan textbooks (upon availability).

Laptop Loan Request Form

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Please submit this form to homeschooling@swlauriersb.qc.ca to loan laptops (upon availability).

Access to Complementary Services Request Form

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Please submit this form to homeschooling@swlauriersb.qc.ca if you would like to have your child assessed by an SLP or Psychologist.

MEQ & School Board Exam Request Form

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Please submit this form to homeschooling@swlauriersb.qc.ca to register your child for an MEQ or school board exam (Grade 6, Secondary 4 & 5).

Request for Exam Accommodations Form

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Please submit this form to homeschooling@swlauriersb.qc.ca if your child requires certain accommodations during the MEQ and school board exams.

Textbook Recommendations

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A list of recommended text and workbooks organized by subject and grade level.

AQED - Association québécoise pour l'éducation à domicile

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AQED is a non-profit organization that offers support to homeschooling families in Quebec. Becoming a parent-educator is an important decision, but you don’t have to do it alone.

Alloprof

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Alloprof Parents’ mission is to provide parents with free, practical resources to help them support their child (ages 6–17) throughout their academic journey. Parents can find a wide range of education-related articles, blog posts, topics, tools, and videos produced and reviewed by experts.

EMSB Learning Modules

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Complete units for every subject in Elementary school. Simply print and go!

La Cabane

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Fondée en 2019, La Cabane offre aux familles un espace créatif permettant aux enfants d’apprendre en menant des vies signifiantes, entourés de leur famille et de leur communauté.

Trouve Ta Ressource

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A collaborative digital platform and initiative in Laval, Quebec, connecting youth (ages 11-25), parents, and youth workers to local health, social, and community resources, aiming to improve well-being through information, support, and better access to help for various challenges like mental health, addictions, housing, or school issues. It offers a resource directory, interactive map, articles, and web capsules to guide users to relevant services.

Narrative Writing Guide

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A guide for students wanting to develop their narrative writing skills.

Response Writing Guide

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A guide for students wanting to develop their response writing skills.

Teaching Literary Analysis

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A helpful guide for parent-educators on how to teach literary analysis to their students.

Smash Education

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Smash Education is a North American digital language learning platform for K-12 schools, homeschooling, and families, offering immersive resources for Core French, French Immersion, Spanish, and English Language Learning (ELL), featuring interactive games, native speaker conversations, and detailed progress tracking to help students achieve fluency through personalized, differentiated instruction.

Constellations

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Constellations includes a wide selection of books and is updated regularly. Our goal is to further the development of language learning, cultural awareness and the love of reading.

TED Talks

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Discover ideas worth spreading.

ABC-YA Educational Games

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A website that offers a large collection of free educational games for children from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade.

IXL

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A personalized online learning platform for PreK-12 students, offering comprehensive K-12 curriculum in math, language arts, science, social studies.

LEARN - Leading English Education And Resource Network

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LEARN Quebec a non-profit organization supporting Quebec's English-speaking educational community by providing free online resources, professional development for educators, and virtual learning opportunities (like tutoring and summer school) to ensure student success and community vitality, aligning with Quebec's curriculum.

Get Epic (Epic!)

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A subscription-based digital library for kids aged 12 and under, offering instant, on-demand access to over 40,000 high-quality e-books, audiobooks, educational videos, and learning quizzes, with features like Read-To-Me books, reading buddies, and progress tracking to encourage literacy in a fun, kid-safe environment.

CBC Kids' News

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CBC Kids News is real news for real kids. Your trusted daily source for the news, pop culture and sports stories that Canadian kids want to know!

Mauril

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Ready to take your French or English language skills to the next level? Test your listening comprehension skills with audio and video content from CBC and Radio-Canada. Progress at your own pace and step out of your comfort zone with language challenges. Mauril will help you feel more confident using French or English in any context.

Alec - Apprendre à Lire et à Compter

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A French-language educational web platform featuring engaging games for preschoolers and elementary students (ages 4-12) to learn French and Math skills, aligning with school curricula, accessible for home or classroom use, and offering parent/teacher dashboards for progress tracking.

The Fable Cottage

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Children's stories translated into French with optional English translation and slow audio from a native French speaker.

Qwant Junior

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Qwant Junior est le moteur de recherche sécurisé et préféré des enfants.

Radio Canada MAJ

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L’actualité pour les jeunes.

Bayard Jeunesse

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Bayard Jeunesse offers more than 40 magazines and digital books carefully designed for children from 1 to 18 years of age by the most talented creators.

Gizmos

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The world's largest library of interactive STEM simulations.

Math Resources Websites

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A collection of Math resource websites that parent-educators may find helpful.

Polypad Virtual Manipulatives

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Polypad is a free, online digital canvas with interactive virtual manipulatives (like algebra tiles, base-ten blocks, fraction bars) for students and teachers to explore math concepts hands-on, supporting understanding in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and even music, accessible on any device without login.

Open Middle - Interactive Math Problems

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Open Middle offers interactive math problems designed to foster critical thinking.

Solving Situational Problems

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Step by step guide on how to solve situational problems. Helpful practice for the Grade 6 MEQ exam.

Dragonbox

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DragonBox is a series of award-winning educational mobile apps that teach children complex math concepts like algebra, geometry, and chess through engaging, game-like experiences.

Pandacraft

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Educational science kits for elementary children.

Little Bins for Little Hands

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Simple Science and STEM for Every Day

Tappity

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Tappity Science is an interactive science app for kids in grades K-5 that hopes to engage kids through interactive videos, quizzes, games, and storylines all centered around science topics.

Canada's History

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Canada's History offers lesson plans, Kayak magazines about a variety of different topics in Geography, History, and Citizenship education.

History of Quebec & Canada Review Guide for Secondary 4 MEQ Exam

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This review guide is based on the Québec Education Program as recommended by the Ministère de l'Éducation et de l'Enseignement supérieur du Québec (MEES).

How to Help Your Child Solve a Situational Problem in Mathematics

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In elementary-school math, your child will learn how to think about, identify, and structure different math concepts. One of the skills they will learn is how to solve a situational problem. But what exactly are situational problems and how can you help?

Visual Arts: Key Competencies

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Key competencies for Visual Arts education in Quebec.

Artists Inspire Grants

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Interactive Art workshops from local artists.

PHE Canada

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Teaching tools for Physical & Health education.

Ophea

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Engaging ways to learn more about a multitude of curriculum-connected health and active living topics.

Teach Nutrition

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Free educational resources to help children learn about healthy eating.

CCQ Information by SWLSB

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Find out more information about the CCQ program on our school board website.

Elementary CCQ Program

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Access the elementary program, progressions of learning, framework for the evaluation of learning, and information for parents and teachers for CCQ.

Secondary CCQ Program

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Access the secondary program, progressions of learning, framework for the evaluation of learning, and information for parents and teachers for CCQ.

LEARN QC Information on Financial Education

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Helpful information from LEARN Quebec.

Alloprof Information on Financial Education

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Educational resources on Financial Education by Alloprof.

FCRR - Language Development Games

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Games to help with language development.

Sounder & Friends

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A TV show, free app, and games created by literacy experts to teach phonemic awareness, a key pre-reading skill, to preschoolers.

Mieux Enseigner

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A Canadian online platform for educators to buy, sell, and share digital teaching resources like lesson plans, worksheets, games, and guides.

Abracadabra - Concordia University

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A Balanced Reading Approach for Children Always Designed to Achieve Best Results for All, is a highly interactive, early literacy web-based tool that supports beginning readers through 33 engaging activities linked to 20 stories of different kinds.

Reading Rockets

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Reading Rockets offers a rich library of evidence-based classroom strategies to help young children become skilled readers.

Bien Lire

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La méthode phonétique et gestuelle créée par Suzanne Borel-Maisonny.

Balanced Literacy Diet

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The Balanced Literacy Diet is a research-based framework using food pyramid/diet metaphors to guide effective reading and writing instruction, emphasizing a balanced mix of essential "food groups" (skills) like oral language, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, tailored to different stages of a child's literacy development.

Make, Take, & Teach

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Hands-on activities for the primary classroom.

Toy Theater

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Online educational games for various subjects.

Virtual Word Work Mat

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Switch It by Reading Simplified

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Strategies for building phonemic awareness.

Phonics & Stuff Word Mapper

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Type in words and break them into phonemes and graphemes to help with English language development.

Orthographic Mapping

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How do we learn to read so fast?

Decodable Texts

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A collection of resources for decodable texts. Decodable texts allow beginning and struggling readers the opportunity to practice reading text that incorporates new skills and letter-sound correspondences that have been explicitly and systematically been taught by the teacher.

Sherpa Recherche

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Trousse d’outils pour parler de sujets sensibles avec les tout-petits, les enfants et les jeunes

Brainology

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Tools on developing a growth mindset for learners.

Aider Son Enfant

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Pedagogical resources on helping children with motivation, mental health, life challenges, etc.

Cosmic Kids

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Brain breaks and yoga for mindfulness and relaxation.

Brain POP!

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Brighten and organize your classroom with these free, time-saving printables for weekly planning, building routines, and just for fun!

Brain POP! on YouTube

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Educational videos on a variety of subjects.

Khan Academy

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Learn with millions of people worldwide by exploring videos, tackling practice problems and getting AI-powered support.

Code MTL

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Code MTL est un projet qui vise à favoriser la littératie numérique des élèves de 5 à 12 ans grâce à la programmation visuelle.

Scratch - Learning to Code

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Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations.

Kahoot!

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The Kahoot! platform makes it easy for any individual or corporation to create, share, and host learning sessions that drive compelling engagement and boost learning outcomes. Kahoot! sessions can be hosted anywhere, in person or virtually, using any device with an internet connection.

Quizlet

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Interactive flashcards, practice tests, and study activities.

Free Online Educational Resources

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A large collection of free educational resources put together by the Assembly of First Nations

NCCIE - National Center for Collaboration in Indigenous Education

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The National Centre for Collaboration in Indigenous Education (NCCIE) is hosted by First Nations University of Canada, which has a 40-year history of being Indigenous-owned, operated, and controlled.

CIRNAC - Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

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Learning resources about First Nations, Inuit and Métis across Canada.

Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund

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The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund (DWF) aims to build cultural understanding and create a path toward reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

NCTR - National Center for Truth & Reconciliation

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The teaching resource collection within the archives at the NCTR is composed of over 300 unique English-language resources and 100 French-language resources related to residential schools and other closely related topics. Choose from downloadable apps, books, computer games, films, graphic novels, lesson plans, teaching guides, and more.

Project of Heart

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Project of Heart” is an inquiry based, hands-on, collaborative, inter-generational, artistic journey of seeking truth about the history of Aboriginal people in Canada.

Indspire

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Indspire is a national charity that invests in the education of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people by providing financial awards, programs, and resources.

Orange Shirt Society

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A non-profit organization founded by residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad, dedicated to creating awareness about the intergenerational impacts of Canada's Residential Schools and promoting reconciliation through its core message, "Every Child Matters".

Good Minds Books

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First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Books and educational resources.

Indigenous Stories

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NFB - National Film Board of Canada

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Watch quality Canadian documentary, animation and fiction films online.

Outdoor Learning

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