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Read & Write at Home

Read! Children need to read or be read to every day. This includes reading to learn as well as reading for enjoyment. Reading should be no less than 20 minutes a day.  If you are home all day, a few 20 minute sessions would be great. The Resource Bank has plenty of audio books, story times and online reading available if you are short on books at home. 

Write! Your child should do a bit of writing (this includes typing) every day.  They can respond to what they read, write a journal or poem, work on a story or essay, or write a "how-to" manual.  Kids could even watch one of our live animal cams and write an observation or story based on their expereince.  The possibilities are endless.  

If you find there are too many resources to sort through, you can filter the results using the “Filter Resources” area on the left side of the screen.  Select “Education Level” to narrow your results to a specific education level. (Please note - for the purposes of this site these "Education Levels" are used when filtering - Lower Primary = K-2, Upper Primary=3-5, Middle Years=6-8, High School=9-12)

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Read Write Think
Read the Fine Print
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ReadWriteThink is an online resource that contains lessons, interactive activities, printables, and an app to help kids improve their reading and writing skills. ... Each heading contains hundreds of unit plans, lesson plans, and activities, each divided by subject, learning objective, and grade level.

You can filter lessons and activities by grade using the box on the left side of the site.

Select the grade you want, and select Lesson or Student Interactive under Resource Type to find activities for learning.

Professional learning, podcasts, etc are also available.

Please note - if you click "Discover" the "Providers" in the Resource Bank and find Read, Write, Think - you will find over 500 of their lessons directly in the bank.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Podcast
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
10/05/2018
Reading Adventure Packs for Families
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What goes into each reading adventure pack?

Parent information sheet with an introductory note that you can personalize, instructions about how to use the packet, and tips for sharing fiction and nonfiction books with children.

Two books: one fiction and one nonfiction, selected by Reading Rockets for high quality and wide availability in school libraries

Creativity Activity: a hands-on craft project

Imagination Activity: encourages imaginative play, writing, or drawing

Get Real Activity: focuses on real-world experiences for parent and child

Bookmark: lists the featured titles and alternative titles

The Reading Rockets reading adventure packs contain the instructions, activities, and bookmarks for you to download and print, for free.

K-3 all subjects!

Subject:
English Language Arts
Math
Science
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Reading
Author:
Reading Rockets
Date Added:
06/06/2019
Reading Buddies
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As part of the Reading League - the Reading Buddies YouTube videos are focused on the Science of reading with a Scope & Sequence that follows the alphabetic principle.

What do a dog, a girl, and a robot have in common? First and foremost, Dusty, Dott, and Alphabott are best friends. But they are also reading buddies! Dusty loves to talk, learning to read is a new skill. With the help of Dott and Alphabott, he discovers that it can be so much fun! Along the way, the friends practice letters, sounds and reading words, improvise stories, get letters from their globe-trotting friend Otto, practice social skills, and so much more. Become a Reading Buddy today!

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Reading Buddies
Date Added:
12/08/2021
The Reading League - The Science of Reading
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The Reading League (TRL) is a national education nonprofit led by educators and reading experts dedicated to promoting knowledge to reimagine the future of literacy education and accelerate the global movement toward reading instruction rooted in science.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Primary Source
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Brandi Lawson
Date Added:
12/08/2021
Rewordify - Understand what you read
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Rewordify.com helps with reading comprehension and vocabulary development by simplifying English to a lower reading level. It lets you reword a sentence or reword a paragraph. It will simplify English by reducing text complexity. It's a dictionary alternative that will improve comprehension and teach vocabulary. It's an important part of reading instruction and vocabulary instruction for ESL students, people with reading disabilities, people with a learning disability, or anyone who wants to improve reading skill.

Rewordify.com simplifies difficult English. Enter hard sentences (or whole chapters) into the yellow box at the top of the page. (You can also enter a web site URL.) Click Rewordify text and you'll instantly see an easier version, for fast understanding. The reworded words are highlighted— click them to hear and learn the original harder word. You can change how the highlighting works to match the way you learn!

Rewordify.com can display simplified versions of web pages. Our state-of-the-art web filtering technology blocks millions of inappropriate sites and questionable language, to protect kids online and keep them reading only what they should be reading.

Subject:
Education
English Language Arts
Language Education (EAL, ESL)
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Rewordify
Date Added:
03/23/2021
Rhyming Activity Using Colors
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This playful phonological awareness activity to build rhyming skills using colors. Lots of fun for preschoolers and early readers!

Subject:
Early Childhood Development
Education
Elementary Education
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Growing Book by Book
Jodie Rodriguez
Mary Catherine
The Preschool Toolbox
Date Added:
09/28/2022
Rhyming clip cards
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If you’re looking for a way to teach your student/child to recognize rhyming words, try these free printable clip cards!

Subject:
Early Childhood Development
Education
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Anna G
Anna Geiger
Chris Vanderstoep
Julie Ann
Mario Manganiello
Ria Connellan
Suzi Watson-roberson
THE MEASURED MOM
Tammy Martinez
Tina Kegley
Susan Wheeler
Date Added:
09/28/2022
Rover - Grade 1
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Check out these great video/curricular resources for Grade 1. The ROVER videos all indicate the curriculum outcomes that they address.

ROVER (Recommended Online Video Education Resources) is a video streaming service for Saskatchewan teachers and students in the PreK-12 education system. It is managed and maintained by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education. ROVER is a video-on-demand service that provides teachers and students with the convenience of immediate access to streamed, educational videos that support curricula.

This site also offers all of the curriculum documents for all grade levels.

If you are unable to access the site, it may be because a Saskatchewan Ministry of Education Blackboard login is required. All students have an Edonline account, so contact your child's school or the Ministry of Education’s Support Desk at 1-866-933-8333 or email at stans@gov.sk.ca for login information. Your child's student number will be required.

Subject:
Arts Education
English Language Arts
Health & Fitness
Health Education
Math
Physical Education
Science
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Saskatchewan Ministry of Education
Date Added:
11/10/2020
Rover - Grade 2
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Check out these great video/curricular resources for Grade 2. The ROVER videos all indicate the curriculum outcomes that they address.

ROVER (Recommended Online Video Education Resources) is a video streaming service for Saskatchewan teachers and students in the PreK-12 education system. It is managed and maintained by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education. ROVER is a video-on-demand service that provides teachers and students with the convenience of immediate access to streamed, educational videos that support curricula.

This site also offers all of the curriculum documents for all grade levels.

If you are unable to access the site, it may be because a Saskatchewan Ministry of Education Blackboard login is required. All students have an Edonline account, so contact your child's school or the Ministry of Education’s Support Desk at 1-866-933-8333 or email at stans@gov.sk.ca for login information. Your child's student number will be required.

Subject:
Arts Education
English Language Arts
Health & Fitness
Health Education
Math
Physical Education
Science
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Saskatchewan Ministry of Education
Date Added:
11/16/2020
Rover - Grade 3
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Check out these great video/curricular resources for Grade 3. The ROVER videos all indicate the curriculum outcomes that they address.

ROVER (Recommended Online Video Education Resources) is a video streaming service for Saskatchewan teachers and students in the PreK-12 education system. It is managed and maintained by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education. ROVER is a video-on-demand service that provides teachers and students with the convenience of immediate access to streamed, educational videos that support curricula.

This site also offers all of the curriculum documents for all grade levels.

If you are unable to access the site, it may be because a Saskatchewan Ministry of Education Blackboard login is required. All students have an Edonline account, so contact your child's school or the Ministry of Education’s Support Desk at 1-866-933-8333 or email at stans@gov.sk.ca for login information. Your child's student number will be required.

Subject:
Arts Education
English Language Arts
Health & Fitness
Health Education
Math
Physical Education
Science
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Saskatchewan Ministry of Education
Date Added:
11/16/2020
Rover - Kindergarten
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Check out these great video/curricular resources for Kindergarten. The ROVER videos all indicate the curriculum outcomes that they address.

ROVER (Recommended Online Video Education Resources) is a video streaming service for Saskatchewan teachers and students in the PreK-12 education system. It is managed and maintained by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education. ROVER is a video-on-demand service that provides teachers and students with the convenience of immediate access to streamed, educational videos that support curricula.

This site also offers all of the curriculum documents for all grade levels.

If you are unable to access the site, it may be because a Saskatchewan Ministry of Education Blackboard login is required. All students have an Edonline account, so contact your child's school or the Ministry of Education’s Support Desk at 1-866-933-8333 or email at stans@gov.sk.ca for login information. Your child's student number will be required.

Subject:
Arts Education
English Language Arts
Health & Fitness
Health Education
Math
Physical Education
Science
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Saskatchewan Ministry of Education
Date Added:
11/10/2020
SPELD SA Phonic Readers - Free Online Decodable Readers
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This is an excellent resource within the classroom or to share with parents for effective at-home learning!

Each book can be used online in an HTML version OR downloaded as a free PDF that can be printed as an actual book. There is a PowerPoint for each book. This resource includes various formats , including special versions for ipads or tablets.

Worksheets and fluency charts accompany each book! There are ten total sets of readers with many books included in each set.

SPELD SA Phonic Books follow the sequence of letter-sounds used in the Jolly Phonics phonics program. The books can be used with other phonics programs as well.

Sequence of letter-sounds:
- Set 1 - s, a, t, p, i, n
- Set 2 - c, k, ck, e, h, r, m, d
- Set 3 - g, o, u, l, f, b
- Set 4 - ai, j, oa, ie, ee, or
- Set 5- z, w, ng, v, oo (book), oo (room)
- Set 6 - y, x, sh, ch, th (think), th (that)
- Set 7 - qu, ou, oi, ue, er, ar
- Set 8 - y (sunny), a (apron), a-e (cake), e (female), e-e (eve), i (silent), i-e (kite), o (open), o-e (home), u (student), u-e (tune)
- Set 9 - ay (play), ey (they), oy (toy), y (mystery), ea (dream), ie (chief), y (dry), igh (night)
- Set 10 - oe (toe), ow (rainbow), ow (now), ir (bird), ur (turn), ew (few), au (launch), aw (paw), al (talk)

To access more free online decodable books, visit https://literacylearn.com/free-decodable-readers/

Subject:
Education
English Language Arts
Language Education (EAL, ESL)
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Primary Source
Reading
Author:
SPELD SA Inc
Date Added:
09/20/2022
San Diego Zoo Kids
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The San Diego Zoo Kids site offers thousands of resources for educators, including lesson plans, games, live feeds of animals, and detailed information on a variety of species from the African dwarf crocodile to the Western lowland gorilla.

This site is excellent for animal research projects.

There are a number of excellent videos and you can even watch a number of animals LIFE via WEB CAM (koala, ape, condor, elephant, panda, penguins, polar bear & tiger). Students can search videos for recorded clips at the bottom of the videos tab.

There are also games, activities and stories on the site.

Be sure to click the "for grown ups" section at the top right of the screen to see how you can a number of teacher resources and even book a video-conference for your class.

Subject:
Arts Education
Biology
Science
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Author:
San Diego Zoo
Date Added:
02/06/2019
Scope and Sequence for Reading and Spelling
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These valuable scope and sequence charts outline the reading and spelling skills that students require and the order in which they should be developed.

The charts cover skills for students from grade 1-grade 5/6.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Primary Source
Author:
All About Reading
Date Added:
02/27/2023
Second Grade Reading Comprehension Activities
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These second grade reading comprehension activities will help your students build the skills they need to become better readers and have fun in the process.
Activities include:
- Comprehension Cootie Catcher
- Retelling Glove
- Wanted Poster
- Story Cheeseburger
- Roll and Chat Dice Game
- Story Ball
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road
- Make a Shutter Book

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Author:
We Are Teachers
Elizabeth Mulvahill
Date Added:
05/13/2020
Simple at Home Literacy Activity - Book to Movie
Conditional Remix & Share Permitted
CC BY-NC-SA
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Read a book. Watch the movie. Compare and contrast & let the learning begin!

The beauty of this activity is it works for any age! So many great pieces of literature have been turned into movies right from picture books to the modern stories to classic literature.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Date Added:
03/26/2020
Smithsonian Learning Lab
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The Smithsonian Learning Lab puts the treasures of the world's largest museum, education, and research complex within reach. The Lab is a free, interactive platform for discovering millions of authentic digital resources, creating content with online tools, and sharing in the Smithsonian's expansive community of knowledge and learning.

Use the search tool to discover lots of resources on endless topics. The sky's the limit!

Subject:
Arts Education
Biology
Chemistry
Computer Science
Earth Science
Education
English Language Arts
Environmental Science
Geography
Health & Fitness
Health Education
Health Science
History
Math
Physical Science
Physics
Science
Social Studies
Material Type:
GAP 4
GAP 5
GAP 6
Author:
Smithsonian Institute
Smithsonian Learning Lab
Date Added:
03/04/2019
Sora Reading Application - full books for all ages
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Login with your Microsoft.

Borrow eBooks and audiobooks from your school's library with Sora. Setup is simple - just find your school and sign in. Then download or stream your assignments and favorite books to your device.

Sask DLC families:
1. click "find your school"
2. select "No, I will search for my school"
3. start typing "sask..." and Saskatchewan Distance Learning Centre will appear below.
4. select "Saskatchewan Distance Learning Centre"
***If you are signed in with your Microsoft credentials (student#@saskdlc.ca) this will open the library up directly.

Sun West families can obtain their user and password information from their classroom teacher.

Books are available in English and French.

Connectez-vous avec votre compte Microsoft.

Empruntez des livres électroniques et des livres audio de la bibliothèque de votre école avec Sora. La configuration est simple - il vous suffit de trouver votre école et de vous connecter. Ensuite, téléchargez ou diffusez vos devoirs et livres préférés sur votre appareil.

Familles de la DLC de la Saskatchewan :

Cliquez sur "Trouver votre école".
Sélectionnez "Non, je vais chercher mon école".
Commencez à taper "sask..." et le Centre d'apprentissage à distance de la Saskatchewan apparaîtra ci-dessous.
Sélectionnez "Centre d'apprentissage à distance de la Saskatchewan".
***Si vous êtes connecté avec vos identifiants Microsoft (élève#@saskdlc.ca), cela ouvrira directement la bibliothèque.
Les familles de Sun West peuvent obtenir leurs informations d'utilisateur et de mot de passe auprès de leur enseignant de classe.

Les livres sont disponibles en anglais et en français.

Subject:
English Language Arts
French
Language Education
Material Type:
Reading
Author:
Sora
Date Added:
03/18/2019
Sounder & Friends
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Sounder & Friends is a resource that focuses on phonological awareness & the Science of Reading. It has engaging activities and characters and the Instagram page also does weekly posts that break down different elements of reading and explain them clearly. This could be a great resource for teachers and families!

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Sounder and Friends
Date Added:
12/08/2021