Build Knowledge That Reflects the Diversity of Canadian Classrooms

Sankofa K–3 content readers will be your new favourite resource. Here’s why:

• The authentic and relevant content is designed to promote Black excellence and Black Canadian narratives.
• Non-fiction selections invite students to build background knowledge to support the reading of the original fiction selections within each title.
• Various text types and genres provide cross-curricular opportunities for students to identify and analyze different characteristics, patterns, features, literary devices, and elements of style.
• All student books and teacher’s resources are available in both print and digital formats.

Sankofa celebrates the inspiring and complex histories, stories, and cultural legacies of people of African descent.

All Sankofa K–3 content readers:

• have been written and reviewed by Canadian authors and consultants of African descent.
• include both fiction and non-fiction selections that support global citizenship and focus on one of the following aspects of Ubuntu (“I am because we are”) — Relationships, Community, Environment, Identity & Belonging.
• feature Think About It and Connect It activities that encourage comprehension by drawing on students’ background knowledge, encouraging them to make inferences and connections, confirm their predictions, and draw conclusions as they read and reread.

Each grade includes a 48-page teacher guide that includes information on culturally responsive and relevant pedagogy (CRRP) as well as detailed instructions to support evidence-based systematic and explicit instruction in foundational knowledge skills, including oral language, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension, and writing.