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This video lesson offers students the opportunity to identify words rhyming with "my" in a story that is read to them. The instructor then goes through "my" rhyming words.
This video lesson reviews using adjectives to describe nouns, as well the use of precise verbs and sentence endings (phrase) when creating interesting sentences. The accompanying handout has students manipulate sentence parts to make sentences.
This short video reviews when consonants have to be doubled when adding "ing". The accompanying handout reviews the rule about adding a suffix such as –ing, -y, -ed, or –er to a CVC word and provides practice.
This short video lesson reviews what homophones are and gives examples. The accompanying handout has students match words that sound the same but have a different spelling/meaning.
With this assessment checklist, teachers assess student's "Oral Literacy Levels and Behaviours" based on whether they perform listening and speaking characteristic independently or require a prompt. It will help teachers to determine if students are early emergent, emergent, fluent or mature listeners and speakers.
These handouts are a great way to have students self-edit and reflect on their writing.
This graphic organizer helps grade one students plan a story with:
- A title or topic
- Beginning: Make it sound interesting!
- Middle: 3 details!
- Ending: Something for reader to remember!
This handout is a self-assessment tool for students to use to reflect on their story telling.
This video lesson reviews how to determine how many syllables a word has using different methods.
This video lesson reviews the rule of "When two vowels going walking" in a fun and interactive way.
Included in this resource are video lessons that are good models of ways to explore the different word families. The accompanying handouts support and provide activities/practice for each family. Although the lessons often refer to the Cornerstones primary resource, the lessons are valuable for the introduction and use of word families in grade 1 ELA.
The purpose of this lesson is to explore using commas.
Included:
- YouTube video to support DLC ELA Grade 2: Unit 2 Lesson 8 - Using Commas
- Handout: HO-19 Using Commas in a Series or List
The purpose of this lesson is to explore homophones and homographs.
Included:
-YouTube video to support DLC ELA Grade 2: Unit 3 Lesson 9 - Homophones and Homographs
-Handouts:
HO-22 Homophones (fast fact sheet)
HO-23 Homophones Again (practice sheet)
HO-24 Homophones, Round 3! (crossword puzzle)
The purpose of this lesson is to work on students' reading speed and fluency, as well as their comprehension of the material read.
Included:
- Handouts:
HO-32 - Reading Passage (to check for speed and fluency)
HO-33 - Comprehension Questions (could be used for any narrative passage)
The purpose of this lesson is to explore writing a personal narrative.
Included:
-YouTube videos to support DLC ELA Grade 2: Unit 1 Lesson 12 - Writing a Personal Narrative: prewriting, first draft, revising, editing, publishing
-Handouts: Example of Personal Narrative, Planning Personal Narrative, Draft (personal narrative), First Draft (personal narrative), Revise and Edit (personal narrative), Final Copy – Personal Narrative
The purpose of this lesson is to explore the characteristics of a good sentence.
Included:
-YouTube video to support DLC ELA Grade 2: Unit 1 Lesson 1 - What is a Sentence?
-Handouts:
HO-3 - Find the Sentence
HO-4 - Write a Sentence
The purpose of this lesson is to explore how to write a friendly letter.
Included:
-YouTube video to support DLC ELA Grade 2: Unit 1 Lesson 2 - How to Write a Friendly Letter
-Handouts:
HO-6 - Friendly Letter Draft
HO-7 - Friendly Letter Revision and Editing Questions
HO-8 - Good Copy Letter
The purpose of this lesson is to explore how and why we put words in alphabetical order.
Included:
-YouTube video to support DLC ELA Grade 2: Unit 1 Lesson 3 - Alphabetical Order
-Handouts:
HO-10 Alphabetical Order
HO-11 Alphabetical Order
The purpose of this lesson is to explore how to write a name poem.
Included:
-YouTube video to support DLC ELA Grade 2: Unit 1 Lesson 5 - Writing a Name Poem
The purpose of this lesson is to explore root words and words ending in "ed" and "ing".
Included:
-YouTube video to support DLC ELA Grade 2: Unit 1 Lesson 6 - Root Words and Ending "ed" and "ing"
-Handout - HO-22 Suffix – Word Endings