'Students have an opportunity to discuss themselves and their families. During the learning activities students discuss their size, hair and eye colour, favourite colours, age, birthdays, foods they like and dislike, favourite activities and games and their families ... students create and share an “All About Me” booklet.'

*Instructions are in English.*

Provided by the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation / le Ministère de l'Éducation de la Saskatchewan: 'Students have an opportunity to discuss themselves and their school. During the learning activities, students will explore various topics related to them and their school while preparing a booklet ... students create booklets pertaining to “Me and My School” and present an accompanying role play.'

Movement game kits (hot potato, charades, etc.) for many of the Comox Valley Schools (SD71, B.C.) middle-grade Core French units (also searchable on the Resource Bank). All would be adaptable for younger and older students. There are also flash card sets with the units themselves!
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Ces jeux sont destinés aux élèves de Core French, mais seraient également très utiles pour susciter la participation à l'oral dans les cours d'Immersion! Des cartes flash sont aussi disponibles avec chaque unité (recherchables dans la Banque de Ressource).

UNIT THEMES (those with flash cards and games, searchable on the Resource Bank):

-Greetings & letters (saluer & alphabet)
-Numbers & calendar (chiffres & calendrier)
-Who are you? (Qui es-tu?)
-Body parts & monsters (le corps & les monstres)
-Clothing (les vêtements)
-Sports (les sports)
-Hobbies (les passe-temps)
-Animals (les animaux)
-High-frequency words (Les mots de haute fréquence)
-Food (la nourriture) - unit 2/2e unité

Madeline Noonan meets with all of her students individually during writer's workshop. In each conference, she specifically identifies strengths and two goals. Students continue to revise and rewrite throughout the workshop process and build confidence in their writing at the same time.

This document map is meant for students to use and interact with as they move through their ELA 20 course. It enables them to keep track of the outcomes as they meet them on their personalized journey through the course.

This document map is meant for students to use and interact with as they move through their ELA courses. It enables them to keep track of the outcomes as they meet them on their personalized journey through the courses.

This document map is meant for students to use and interact with as they move through their ELA courses. It enables them to keep track of the outcomes as they meet them on their personalized journey through the courses.

No Red Ink is an online site that helps students specifically with grammar. It gives quizzes and exercises tailored to that students’ interests (sports, celebrities, etc) and offers a number of different differentiated platforms and games.

You have to sign up to use this for your students. Some features are locked for paid accounts, but that being said, there are a number of excellent activities for free as well!

Students complete a diagnostic test, do the practice and then write an assessment.

*grammar
*writing prompts
*skill building
*reading response
*bell ringers
*exit tickets
*fluency
*persuasion
*informational texts
*novel activities

Students will either, in their school, outside, or in their home, find nouns that start with the letter in the appropraite boxes.Students will write down 3 verbs they could act out and write two sentences using a noun and verb together below. Students will draw an object based on the clues/descriptions that are read to them.

'Students have an opportunity to learn about Christmas in French. During the learning activities, students will become familiar with Christmas vocabulary, explore what Christmas means to them, discuss ways Santa knows their behaviour during the year, and what they would like for Christmas. They even invent a toy-making machine. For the experiential goal, students will write a letter to Santa and present their letters to the class.

'The teacher’s guide includes learning objectives, a list of resources and step-by-step suggestions on how to teach the unit. In addition, the guide includes answer sheets, suggested vocabulary and motivational games, supplementary activities, flashcards, model letter to parents, evaluation grids and activities, and website addresses.

'The student workbook includes the necessary student activity sheets, vocabulary lists, and teacher, peer and self-evaluation grids. '

*Most instructions are in English, except for a few of the worksheets.*

This thematic unit from Comox Valley Schools (SD71) in B.C. is aimed at Grade 5 Core French students, but is suitable for younger grades and would be easily adaptable for older ones. It is focused on oral practice and participation and would also be useful in primary French Immersion classes!Content Authors: Comox Valley Schools, Learn71, Beth Peddle

Free Online French Listening Resources for teachers, students and parents with videos, online quizzes and printable worksheets for online learning, practice at home, lessons and school work.
The videos have subtitles in French AND English, apart from a few repeats with no subtitles or just in French that have been specially requested by French teachers.

Instructional expert Jim Knight visits first year middle school teacher Aisha Santos to discuss pacing and structure of her lessons.

'Students have an opportunity to participate in a variety of learning experiences where they become familiar with pets, create and participate in a class survey to determine favourite pets, identify and describe pets, create a riddle, and interview classmates to become familiar with pet preferences ... students present their own or desired favourite pet.'

*Instructions are in English.*

'Students have an opportunity to participate in a variety of learning experiences where they talk about places they’ve visited, discuss their favourite tourist attractions, become aware of various types of transportation, discuss activities they would like to do on a trip, and articles of clothing they would pack for a trip ... students create and present a travel plan for a selected place.'

*Instructions are in English.*

Students build a world of their own by answering curriculum aligned questions covering thousands of skill strands. Reading, writing, rhyming and phonetics are included.

Educators get free full access. Parents can work collaboratively with their child's teacher for access or purchase home memberships.

Students have an opportunity to learn about Easter in French. During the learning activities, students will become familiar with Easter vocabulary, discuss the origin and meaning of Easter, and play numerous games to reinforce the vocabulary. They even do a hunt on the Internet related to Easter. For the experiential goal, students will plan and perform an Easter egg hunt. The teacher’s guide includes learning objectives, a list of resources and step by step suggestions on how to teach the unit. In addition, the guide includes answer sheets, suggested vocabulary and motivational games, supplementary activities, flashcards, model letter to parents, evaluation grids and activities, and website addresses.

For elementary students from grades 4-6.

Find great ideas for Quick Writes in your classroom! This includes SEL topics, bell-ringers, exit tickets, skill builders and more.

E.g, Soundtrack of your life; What would make you free; Bad Idea; Based on a Book, My Academic Superpower; How to Improve Your Mood; etc.

Quill.org is an online interactive writing and grammar website which offers personalized grammar lessons for 1-12 students, as well as EAL students. Quill.org is a free resource with a premium option. The benefits of this website are that you can offer your students personalized lessons based on their diagnostic results and it scores the assignments for you so you can use that as formative feedback to assign new activity packs. Teachers are able to see their entire class at a glance for each assignment and adding and removing students is very easy. It offers co teaching options and Quill.org also has fully prepared lesson plans which you can use for a whole class grammar lesson.

*Teachers can download explicit lesson plans to teach their entire class or small groups as well.

Quill now has a proofreader that teaches editing skills by having them proofread passages!

Categories include: Connect (learn to write well structured sentences); Lessons; Diagnostic; Proofreader; Grammar; Reading for Evidence (teach comprehension skills)

This thematic unit from Comox Valley Schools (SD71) in B.C. is aimed at Grade 6 Core French students, but is suitable for younger grades and would be easily adaptable for older ones. It is focused on oral practice and participation and would also be useful in primary French Immersion classes!Content Authors: Comox Valley Schools, Learn71, Beth Peddle