This is a collection of resources for writing instruction.
This text explains the nuts and bolts of how different types of coins, bills, and checks; how they are connected; and how your dollars can earn money through the bank.
Students will create an infographic to share knowledge and data about an issue or science topic they are studying.
You're in a movie theater, watching the new horror flick. The audience knows something that the main character does not. The audience sees the character's actions are not in his best interest. What's that feeling -- the one that makes you want to shout at the screen? Christopher Warner identifies this storytelling device as dramatic irony.
Pobble365 helps to keep students writing. Every day, Pobble365 provides a weird, wonderful, and/or thought provoking image to spark ideas for discussions and writing. It is free and along with a different idea-inspiring image every day, Pobble365 provides a story starter, discussion questions, as well as sentence challenges and “sick sentences” to build language skills. If students don’t have online access, images and writing supports can be printed and photocopied.
The activities include a prompt, sentences stems, vocabulary bank, questions, and challenges to help you scaffold your lesson.
You will need to sign up and make an account to access the resources, but it is free to do so and each day includes a free prompt. You can also create your own!
Get your students writing every single day!
The Ministry of Education’s Student Achievement and Supports branch has developed Instructional Supports for Diverse Writers to support the ESSP’s At Grade Level in Reading, Writing and Math priority. The document focuses on instructional considerations, practices and strategies for students to develop and improve their writing skills. The intended audience for the document is the middle level (grades 4-9) classroom teacher.
This site offers all kinds of printable worksheets (math, reading, writing), file folder games, coloring pages, mask making templates, and fun facts for kids (animals, geography and weather, bugs, plants, space and solar system, holidays).
This realistic fictional story is about Steven and his Aunt Carolyn. The two have always shared a special bond; each time Aunt Carolyn takes a trip, she sends a special postcard to Steven. Now, Aunt Carolyn is coming for the family block party and Steven wants to find a special gift for her.
This Informational text focuses on the migration habits of the grasshopper/locust and the gray whale.
ŕJust Plain FancyĚŇ is the story of a young Amish girl, Naomi, who longs to have something fancy in her life. But when an she finds an unusual egg that hatches into a peacock, she ends up learning a valuable lesson about an acceptable and admired kind of fancy.
This writing continuum was created by Kenaston School (Nicole Duley and Cindy Menzies). It has taken the writing outcomes for Grades K-8 and organized them in a scope and sequence. This can be used to track individual student progress through the outcomes and follow the student through the grades to support in the implementation of the PeBL philosophy and the creation of personalized goals.
This document suggests what research and essay writing skills students should be able to perform at each grade level. These should be taught and practiced in ELA, but become more meaningful when other teachers expect the same standard of information and skill.
In this lesson, students develop an understanding of the critical role communication plays in an engineer's life. Students create products to communicate their learning about the engineering role in the environment.
Patricias Great-Grandmother comes to America as a child from Russia. She creates a quilt that is passed on from generation to generation. The quilt becomes an important symbol and is used in many of the familys traditional Jewish celebrations.
A learning app for kids 2-7 years old.
Focussed on the whole child, interactive, fun, engaging, and free.
An adaptive path or independent learning path are available.
In this 5-minute video a junior high school teacher discusses “Kick Me” a vocabulary lesson where students locate missing words to complete their analogies taped on their classmates’ backs. Students are given 10 to 15 minutes to find the answers so they move efficiently to complete the project.
Why were bison essential to people living on the plains, prior to the time of Treaty negotiations (1870s)? What does the bison represent today? This LIVE Arts broadcast features contemporary artwork and storytelling by Métis artist Leah Marie Dorion, based on her children's book, "Métis Camp Circle: A Bison Culture Way of Life." Leah reads from the book, discusses the importance of bison (past and present), explains the use of Métis symbolism and discuss the composition and design of the illustrations. Leah guides students through a live drawing activity where they learn to draw and paint a bison as inspired by Leah's particular style of creating and imagery.
'Students have an opportunity to learn about Saint Valentine’s day in French. During the learning activities, students will become familiar with Valentine’s Day vocabulary, discuss the meaning of Valentine’s Day, share their likes and dislikes with their friends, and play numerous games to reinforce the vocabulary.
'...students will design a Valentine card and verse and present the card to a friend in front of 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.
'The student workbook includes the necessary student activity sheets, vocabulary lists, and teacher, peer and self-evaluation grids.'
*Instructions are in English.*
The Language Literacy Network (Wasowicz, 2021; 2024) highlights how spoken and written language processes work together to support reading and writing.
Based on 30+ years of research, it focuses on key areas like reading comprehension, writing, and word-level decoding.
Building on Dr. Hollis Scarborough’s Reading Rope model, it updates and expands the original framework to reflect recent findings, emphasizing the link between decoding, spelling, and the reciprocal nature of reading and writing.
Download the infographic!
Wasowicz, J. (2021, December 9). Re: The Language Literacy Network: Move over Reading Rope, make room for your better half…! [Electronic mailing list message]. SPELLTalk Listserv. https://lists.learningbydesign.com/mailman/listinfo/spelltalk
Overview: Courtesy of Comox Valley Schools (SD71) in B.C., an archived site with a series of excellent kits for middle-grade Core French units that carefully structure and encourage oral communication. Some elements would be adaptable for younger or older grades, and/or useful in immersion!
THIS KIT'S THEME: La nourriture (Food)
« After asking and answering questions together as a class, students can then move
between stations. These stations are not sequential, but rather provide practice
communicating about each theme in different ways. The station titles ... are:
a. Bingo
b. Cartes -Memoire/memory game
c. L’intervue -The interview
d. Dictionnaire visual / Visual dictionary
e. Les jeux de vocabulaire / Vocabulary games
f. Sac magique / Magic bag »
'Students have an opportunity to learn about pizza, one of their favourite foods. During the learning activities, students discuss favourite pizzas, become familiar with different kinds of pizza, family preferences, pizza menus, pizza toppings, pizza recipes and design an invitation ... students plan and prepare for a pizza party.'
*Instructions are in English.*