Canadian Reader

The Canadian Reader (Grades 3-5) explores Canadian events, issues, and geography while building informational reading skills.

The magazine is published eight times a year from September to May. Each issue includes:

Focus on key reading strategies: connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, and synthesizing
Three student-friendly news articles
Ready-to-use literacy lesson plans, graphic organizers, and assessments
Canadian geography map activity linked to an article
Non-fiction comic with related lesson plan and support materials

This subscription is not available to HCOS Registered students.

Access to the Canadian Reader has changed. Contact your teacher to receive access to the Canadian Reader resources

Please contact your teacher for the current links.

Magazines are available in two formats: .pdf and .docx.

The .pdf file contains the complete document and cannot be changed. It has helpful information for parents and answer keys at the bottom of the document.
The .docx file contains only the articles and questions. Students can complete assignments directly in the .docx document using Microsoft Word or Google Docs.

Students' resource links that coordinate with the current magazines can be found here.