Our ELA 8/9 class completed a "Trickster Unit" which culminated in them creating a "Trickster" Children's Book to read to the K/1 class. The K/1 class then did a reader-response.
This book was imported into the Pressbooks publishing platform using the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
A boy named Taro helps Jiro-San, a wise old man, clean up the beach for the giant sea turtles that swim ashore to lay their eggs. While he waits, he learns about the rewards that come from being calm and observing the world around you.
This site offers Fun Educational and Online Games for Kids in PreK - 5. It introduce kids to new, exciting ways of learning with the help of fun online games, videos, experiments, puzzles, coloring sheets, and more!
You will need to log into your blackboard account to access this amazing resource. Copy and paste this url into a new tab if you need help with your access: https://www.edonline.sk.ca/webapps/blackboard/password
This year's Turtle Island Reads (TIR) event will be held April 8, 2019 – and hosted by Rosanna Deerchild! For details on the event, visit: www.cbc.ca/1.5045584
TIR puts a spotlight on Indigenous writing by connecting authors and their writing with high school students. Throughout the 2018-19 school year, the project will spark conversation about Indigenous storytelling. In the live public event, three advocates (with assistance from three Quebec classrooms) will champion three books for young adults — The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, Those Who Run in the Sky by Aviaq Johnston, and the graphic novel Will I See? by David Alexander Robertson, GMB Chomichuk, Iskwé and Erin Leslie.
Turtle Island Reads was launched by CBC Montreal in partnership with LEARN, the Quebec Writers' Federation, CODE and McGill University’s Faculty of Education.
Includes TEACHER GUIDES:
(1) Introductory guide (PDF)
(2) Introductory guide - student instructions (PPT)
(3) Book summaries, activities & advocacy guide (PDF)
(4) Book summaries, activities & advocacy guide (PPT)
A great non-fiction news site with a wide variety of articles written at differentiated Lexile levels.
There are daily quizzes and immediate feedback for students.
The site offers several resources, links and tips for teachers. The critical thinking prompts at the end of each article help spark student discussions and response or reflection opportunities.
Articles are divided into K-4, 5-6, 7-8 and High School.
The Folger Shakespeare Library provides the full searchable text of "Twelfth Night" to read online or download as a PDF. All of the lines are numbered sequentially to make it easier and more convenient to find any line.
Students develop their reading, writing, research, and technology skills using graphic novels. As a final activity, students create their own graphic novels using comic software.
Create a web story or interactive story. You could use this to create a choose your own adventure book - you have branching options!
"You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.
Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything you create with it is completely free to use any way you like, including for commercial purposes."
This webinar can help you get started (start at about 10 minutes in). Copy and paste this url into your browser - https://zoom.us/rec/play/7JAlJL2h_zM3H9eWtwSDC6R-W9ToeKis0SUa_vUEyx28BXRQYwLwMOZBZOOrxYNiFo0SI36nYddl4WRz
Supporting handouts (pass DLSUM2020) https://rise.articulate.com/share/xpvOFHYuevKVJBJ6cQXNjd0RvGDgDE4K#/
This site is full of free (and paid) resources to help teachers and students.You can filter by age, grade, subject, and more.Search everything from back to school, orange shirt day, and subject specific topics to find great resources.
Two ants, along with others from their nest, set out to gather crystals for their queen. Initially staying and keeping crystals for themselves, the two ants eventually learn to be happy in their familiar nest.
Students evaluate book reviews written by other children, discussing their components and effectiveness, and write reviews of favorite books to record on video or post online.
Virtual Blending Board
Virtual Word Work Mats
Game Generator
"This resource is designed to assist teachers in locating decodable text from various sources that aligns with the UFLI Foundations Scope & Sequence. The UFLI Foundations decodable passages are directly linked. Other publishers’ books are listed by title next to the appropriate lesson. To use the Guide, locate the lesson/concept in the column on the left. Then, scroll to the right to locate publishers. We will be adding additional sources as we align them. Please note that inclusion in this chart does not imply endorsement of a book or set of books or a statement about the quality of the books. As with most decodable texts, few of these will be 100% decodable."
UFLI Foundations Decodables are linked directly into this guide, as well as many other decodables in the Resource Bank Decodable Reading Materials Collection.
These videos were created to help you implement UFLI Foundations, a systematic and explicit program for teaching foundational reading skills.
Learn how to implement the 8 step routine. "Steps 1 through 4 serve as a warm-up and review of previously taught concepts. Step 5 is an explicit introduction to a new concept including guided practice reading and spelling words. Steps 6 through 8 are opportunities to apply concepts through reading and writing activities at the word and text level."
*Implementation overview
*Slide Deck Tutorial
*Day 1 Lessons (phonemic awareness, visual drill, auditory drill, blending drill, new concept)
*Day 2 Lessons (new concept review, word work, irregular or heart words, reading & writing connected text)
*Progress Monitoring & Implementation
"The UFLI Foundations program includes Home Practice sheets to help families support their child’s learning at home. This Home Support Guide explains how to use these UFLI Foundations Home Practice sheets.
The Printable Alphabet Tiles and Mat are designed to be sent home along with the Home Support Guide. Families can use these paper tiles as manipulative letters for home practice with word work. Printing them on card stock makes them easier to use."
The UFLI Foundations Toolbox contains all the lesson resources to accompany the lesson plans provided in the UFLI Foundations manual. Every lesson has companion resources that will help you implement the lessons efficiently, effectively, and consistently.
Some of the companion lesson resources you will find below include:
Lesson slide decks
Decodable passages
Home practice activities
Games and activities for additional practice
112 excellent lessons and supports!
Lesson Planning & Implementation Support
Heart Word Cards
Sound Wall Cards
Grapheme Cards
Word Work Mat
Printable Alphabet Tiles and Mat
Compiled Lesson Resources
The Sound Wall materials provided here align with the UFLI Foundations lessons.
Included in the UFLI Sound Wall set are the following:
o phoneme cards with mouth pictures to represent the articulatory gesture associated with each phoneme,
o labels for the sound wall displays, including the place and manner of articulation for consonants, and
o grapheme cards that can be added to the sound wall one at a time, as the grapheme-phoneme correspondences are taught.
Refer to the "Getting Ready" lessons in the UFLI Foundations manual for guidance in building the sound wall.
There are great tutorials here to support teachers on using a variety of activities from UFLI, including:
*Word Work Mats
*Phoneme & Grapheme Activities (blending, elkonin boxes, manipulative letters, counting bead string, say it-move it, sorting game)
*Decoding & Encoding (morpheme trees, syllable types, heart words, word chains, practice)