Acknowledgements

From Foundations For Literacy

Many thanks go to the members of the Advisory Committee for their time, their advice and their input into this kit.

Thank you to the principals, Mary Lou Vernon of the University Laboratory School at the University of Western Ontario, Elizabeth Morley of the Institute of Child Study at the University of Toronto, Daniel Ducharme at École L’Aquarelle de Laval and Lucie Perelman of École Saint-Pierre Claver for their collaboration in the production of classroom demonstration videos for the kit. As well, thank you to all the teaching staff at those schools that cooperated in these demonstrations. Their willingness and their efforts are much appreciated.

Thank you to the Canadian researchers, experts in language and literacy, for agreeing to participate in many video clips: Linda Siegel of the University of British Columbia; Dale Willows, Janette Pelletier, Esther Geva, and Andrew Biemiller of the University of Toronto; Eileen Wood of Wilfrid Laurier University; Jacqueline Specht of the University of Western Ontario; Robert Savage and Fred Genesee of McGill University; Monique Brodeur of the Université de Québec à Montréal; Alain Desrochers of the University of Ottawa; and Dr. Monique Sénéchal of Carleton University.

The French adaptation of this project would not have been possible without the efforts of Line Laplante and Monique Brodeur, both of the Université du Québec à Montréal.