This resource includes a persuasive essay requirement sheet, rubric, and student handout to practice finding good word choice.
This site offers teacher resources in the areas of language arts, science, social studies and math, all in a wide variety of topics. Complete lesson plans included.
These free lessons are designed to help teachers, parents, guardians, and tutors support children with phonemic awareness over the summer.
What an amazing way to fill some gaps or get a jump on the year ahead! There are 6 weeks of lessons.
There are lessons to be downloaded (you will need to sign up - it's free!), video lessons to support you and even a letter to send to parents to explain the program and how they can use it at home.
This is really great!
This could be helpful if you are required to wear a mask and still teach letter sounds...
a: a-a-a (open mouth wide as if to take a bite of an apple) b – (make a short, strong b with lips) c - (make sharp click at back of throat) Same as k d – (ta...
Students learn about phonics by focusing on the letter m and participating in an integrated array of activities, including reading, writing, mathematics, music, art, and technology.
This site offers phonics worksheets and free printable phonics workbooks for kids. There are 10+ worksheet makers and printable game templates you can use to make custom worksheets, and an additional section of free online phonics games for students.
Fun Fonix is a phonics warehouse of resources and materials that are designed to move quickly through phonics rules.
Dr. David Kilpatrick's Phonological Awareness Screening Test (2016) explained by Linda Poletz, a Speech-Language Pathologist with the Sun West School Division.
- Kindergarten and Grade 1 year end plans - segmenting words - isolating initial sounds- Kindergarten Phonological Awareness Intervention Ongoing Tracking Form
The following is a collection of phonological awareness resources teachers may find useful when setting up their early literacy programs in Kindergarten and Grade 1.
This resource will provide guidance and information on scoring Phonological Awareness for the Sask DLC Benchmark Assessment Interim Plan.
The PAST and the instructions for administering the screener can be downloaded from this resource.
*The phonological development chart is in Appendix A.
*Suggested activities are in Appendix B.
This excerpt from a biography explains how Pablo Picassos painting style changed over the twentieth century. It describes his Blue Period, Rose Period, and the period of Cubism.
Students use picture books as framing texts for research, freeing them from the language of encyclopedia sources and allowing them to focus their attention on the content of their papers.
The following is a list of picture books that teachers can reference when looking for books to use in the classroom that will infuse agriculture into lessons they're already teaching. These books would be very useful to teach a variety of reading strategies and comprehension tools with such as making connections, predicting, and determining author's purpose.
Picture Match is a matching game that reinforces the concept of beginning-letter and short- and long-vowel sounds. .
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Students need to practice all types of writing, and oftentimes argumentative writing is ignored in favor of persuasive writing. In fact, students may not even understand there is a difference between these two types of writing. In this lesson, students examine the differences between argumentative writing and persuasive writing. After choosing topics that interest them, students conduct research which becomes the foundation for their argumentative essays.
Let the students be the vocabulary experts! Prior to whole class instruction, students create online flashcards and teach the class the new vocabulary.
Students move from modeled to independent comprehension of fiction stories by using texts by Jan Brett and interactive tools that demonstrate their comprehension.
Students get the big picture of the Middle East when they read and analyze Marjane SatrapiŐs graphic novel "Persepolis".
The old cliche, "A picture is worth a thousand words" is put to the test when students write their own narrative interpretations of events shown in an image.