Sun West endorsed resources.
Sun West endorsed resources.
The purpose of the video lesson is to detail the important components to keep in mind when writing a personal narrative. Students are asked to look at a story that is an example of a good personal narrative and then write one of their own.
The purpose of the video lesson is to outline how to write compare and contrast paragraphs. The accompanying handout provides a compare and contrast paragraph graphic organizer that students can use to complete a paragraph in which they compare and contrast the topic given or ones of their choice.
The purpose of the video lesson is to outline the purpose of conversation groups and how to engage in an effective conversation group.
The purpose of the video lesson is to outline how to design a brochure based on examples collected. The assignment is to create a four-fold brochure on a historical site.
The purpose of the video lesson is to outline how to make an effective personal response. It provides a graphic organizer in which students consider their intellectual and emotional responses to a reading selection or topic. They then use their point-form jot notes and expand them into a connected personal response to a literary selection.
The purpose of the video lesson is practice writing a personification poem using a frame. The accompanying handout outlines the structure of the poem and asks students to brainstorm ideas and write a poem of their own.
The purpose of the video lesson is review what a tanka poem is, look at examples of tanka poems and have students write tanka poems of their own.
This resource offers video lessons on each of the letter sounds as outlined by the Jolly Phonics program. The video lessons cover the sound and action for each sound , as well as stories and letter formation.
Additional phonetic rules covered are: magic "e", vowels sounds of y, and the rule "when 2 vowels go walking".
This video lesson reviews contractions, what they mean and how they are made. The accompanying handouts provide students with multiple opportunities to practice identifying and writing contractions.
This video lesson explores the difference between fiction and non-fiction materials and provides multiple examples of both in which the students are asked to identify whether a story or passage is fiction or non-fiction.
This visual is an excellent reminder for grade one students of the different strategies to follow when encountering new words while reading.
This video lesson reviews and has students identify nouns and verbs. The accompany handouts provide practice with verbs and nouns and writing sentences containing them.
This resource is a checklist that teachers/parents could use to determine if their grade one student(s) are able to use before, during and after reading strategies independently or with prompting. It includes space for comments.
These worksheets help students explore and practice making plurals by adding an s to the end of many words.
This video lesson reviews "ed" word endings and the three sounds that they make . The accompanying handout has students sort words according to the sound of the "ed".
This video lesson reviews the "ing" ending. The accompanying handout has students form "ing" words and draw pictures of what they drew.
This video lesson explores compound words and gives students the opportunity to interactively find them in a variety of ways.
This video lesson introduces the drop"e" rule when adding "ing" to words. The accompanying handout provides practice with adding "ing" to a word that ends in "e".
This video lesson explores how and why it is helpful to have words in alphabetical order. The accompanying handout has students put the colour words in alphabetical order.
This video lesson models for students how to write a story from a picture prompt by considering what happens before, during and after the picture.