This is a lesson about generating hypotheses and testable questions. Learners will use critical thinking and a collaborative approach to pose questions related to the study of Mars and evaluate the quality of their questions. They will explore remote-sensing data collected by a camera orbiting Mars - the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) and develop a team science question. Students will practice critical thinking skills, use a collaborative approach to this first critical step of the scientific process. Exploring the images of the surface of Mars in Visible (VIS) images, students will come up with a topic of study, their team science question and hypotheses. The lesson models scientific inquiry using the 5E instructional model and includes teacher notes and vocabulary.

Quill.org is an online interactive writing and grammar website which offers personalized grammar lessons for K-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.

Anyone can use Quizlet to study and learn content created by other users, or to create your own custom study sets. You can also share sets with friends, classmates or your students.

The best way to get started on Quizlet as a student or a teacher is to search for sets made by other Quizlet users. Students and teachers create new study sets all the time, so it's quite likely that you'll be able to find what you're looking for.

This is a great tool for formative assessment. Students can work in groups and compare answers and learn from one another.

AP 110 2d REORDER Rubric that is used to implement PeBL philosophy into Sun West schools and classrooms. The rubric is based on the REORDER framework where each part of the framework is based on a 4 point scale for focus areas.

Lesson Plan includes: reading the background information on Edgar Allen Poe and a summary of “The Raven”, watching The Simpsons recreation of the classic poem, watching a video on figurative language, reading the poem and identifying figurative language found throughout, and creating a figurative language storyboard.

Improve your students’ Reading Comprehension. It’s free.

Sign up for ReadTheory and get personalized reading comprehension exercises for K-12 and ESL students.

The program offers reading comprehension worksheets & tests that are free, printable and accessible online - Grades 1-12

Also offered is a whole section on remote teaching.

Teachers from all around the world are using ReadTheory to help their students improve their reading comprehension skills in a fun way that keeps them attentive and motivated.

This is more specific information about the Acadience items we are using to benchmark students for the temporary benchmarking plan at Sask DLC. *Letter Naming Fluency*Nonsense Word Fluency*Oral Reading Fluency

*Math assessment materials
*Reading K-6 assessment materials

K-6
Select "Acadience Reading K-6 (Digital Administration" from the left menu; and "Benchmark Materials" from the right menu. - Then Select Your Grade's Materials .

7-9
Select "Acadience Reading 7-8 (Digital Administration" from the left menu; and "Benchmark Materials" from the right menu. - Then Select Your Grade's Materials .

Select the boxes of the reading assessment levels you would like to compare, and the chart will populate.

This site features:
*short video tutorials on how to best use Reading Eggs.
*printable resources
*tips for distance teaching
*distance learning parent support pack

The following are the expected fluency rates for grades 1-8 at the beginning and end of year. This is based on the Saskatchewan curriculum. 

This resource explains how you can access MS Reading Progress and Reading Coach in MS Teams. 

This professional development covers why reading is the cornerstone of all education and the PeBL philosophy.
Reading is demystified into the components that all students need to read. Then strategies and the transfer of responsibility are used supporting the Saskatchewan Reads framework.
The materials used through out the presentation are included in the folder for this presentation in the PeBL ELA Team group in the folder entitled "Reading PD (PeBL Mentor PD).
Contact any members of the team for further information.

This is an end-to-end tutorial of Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams. This is a Microsoft Teams new feature for education that improves student reading fluency, saves time and tracks insights and progress. Reading Progress is one of the new features in Microsoft Teams for Education. Teams Reading Progress is a FREE tool that supports students in building reading fluency through independent reading practice, educator review, and educator insights. Reading Progress allows educators to assign reading fluency passages that students can independently record themselves reading out loud. Educators can review the audio and video, and gather insights automatically on student progress. The program automatically detects the student's reading fluency and accuracy. Teachers can get fluency/accuracy data on individual students and for the whole class.

Check out Microsoft Teams Reading Progress blog: https://aka.ms/ReadingProgressMay2021​ to see even more of what this great tool can do for you!

Learn how to use Microsoft Reading Progress a student and teaching guide. This guide gives you a full rundown of how to use Microsoft Teams with your learners. The video will also show students how to use reading progress and how to submit this. As a teacher this video will guide you all of the features of Microsoft Teams Reading Progress. A teacher and student guide. This how to guide shows you how to enable Microsoft Teams Reading Progress.

Reading Progress is a free tool built into Microsoft Teams Assignments designed to support and track reading fluency in your class. Students record their reading on camera and submit it to you. As you mark and return their work, data is automatically collected and organized in Insights, helping you spend more time with students and less time analyzing data.

With Reading Progress, educators can:
•Save time by creating reading fluency assignments for either the entire class or for individual students to complete independently.
•Visualize reading progress thanks to integration with the Education Insights dashboard.
•Engage students in independent practice on their own time.
Learn how to use Reading progress by creating an assignment in Microsoft Teams.

Personalize based on student needs, Student View, Built-in Immersive Reader technology, Students build independence and self-awareness, Educator View , Turn Auto-Detect on/off, Add feedback. Teams Insights and Analytics, Track student progress over time, Find patterns and class trends

Please keep in mind that you can also use the paper copies of this to administer. If you are using the paper versions, you will need to adjust your administration accordingly.