This collection features resources to support the use of readiness assessments.
Any assessment that examines a student's readiness to learn is considered a readiness assessment. These assessments may look at academic readiness (math, reading, writing), skills readiness (21st century skills, learning styles, etc.), or attitudinal (grit, growth mindset) readiness. They may include diagnostic or learning/attitude inventories. The resources in this collection will help you to determine the readiness of your students in a variety of areas including Math, English Language Arts, 21st Century Skills, Growth Mindset, Learning Style, Personality Type, Creativity Style, etc.
Learner Profiles can provide a great deal of information about student readiness. Be sure to visit the Learner Profile Collection (https://resourcebank.ca/curated-collections/35) for more resources and to examine what should be done with Learner Profiles for students. Information can be found in that collection for teaching students to study and learn based on their learner profile. It is essential that once the learner profiles are created that they are revisited regularly with students to help them do their best learning. Learner Profliles can be a tool to develop classroom community, empathy as well as metacogntion for students.
Please note that readiness assessments should be redone at the start of each school year, as our skills, learning styles and personalities can evolve and shift as we develop and have new experiences as both children and adults.
This resource has the inventory, as well as a description of each type of personality.
Also included:
*Characteristics
*How you see yourself
*How others may see you
*Frustrations
*How to be praised
*How you act on a bad day
*What may stress you out
*Careers
Mathletics is a powerful tool or weapon of “mass instruction”. This session will show you how to use Mathletics to identify which outcomes your students are currently meeting, and where there are gaps in their learning. This outcome specific information can be provided for the class overall and each individual student by using the assessments available in Mathletics. Mathletics can also be used to help fill those learning gaps by using differentiation, and using the information from student activities to group students for small group instruction based on their results from activities. Come and learn how to put this amazing tool to work for you and your students this year.
Do you know how you learn? Take this quiz to determine your learning style.
Visit the "about" tab for videos and more information about VARK.
Take the actual inventory under the "questionnaire" tab. Note that there are different versions for young people and teachers available.
Last but not least, go to the "using VARK" tab to learn how to integrate VARK into your teaching or learning practice. There are also role playing scenarios available.
**Make sure you explore the strategies listed that apply to you under the "questionnaire" tab after you complete teh inventory. It provides information that will help you learn better.**
A wellness inventory for overall Wellness. This inventory is used in Grade 10. (Wellness wheel)
The Wellness Resource Hub is a collection of existing and new resources to address and support Indigenous children and youth's mental and emotional wellness.
The Wellness Resource Hub aims to be a starting point that facilitates knowledge exchange and sharing across communities and Nations.
Most wellness resources are editable, and we encourage communities to adapt them to fit their children and needs.
Wordwall is great for making (and finding) quizzes and activities for content courses! It is super user-friendly, and it has some cool themes too!
Take a look at this blog by Leanne Hintz, where she has used a few already-created "Wordwall" activities and then created some unique ones of her own. (https://ourlifewelllivedleannehintz.com/2023/05/17/wordwall/)
To use Wordwall, all you need to do is create a free account. The basic membership allows you to make five interactive activities (for online use … no printables unfortunately) perfect for the classroom or an online environment. A basic membership is just $8 per month and allows for unlimited creations (that can also become printables as well).
This resource includes the assessment materials for spelling for the primary level, the elementary level and the upper level.
*forms
*word lists
*recording sheets
*administering directions
*Sask DLC see interim benchmark MSTeam channel for more supports.
Writing prompts and exemplars for Grades 1 to 8 from Ontario.
Student Writing Tasks and Samples
*Grade 1:A Short Piece of Descriptive Writing (“My Favourite Toy”) page 11
*Grade 2:A Short Narrative (“My Adventure”) page 25
*Grade 3:A Letter (to a Favourite Author) page 39
*Grade 4:A Humorous Fictional Story (“The Day Gravity Failed”) page 55
*Grade 5:A Non-fiction Report (“A Person I Admire”) page 73
*Grade 6:A Summary Report (“Canada’s Newest Territory”) page 91
*Grade 7:An Advertisement (for a New Food Product) page 111
*Grade 8:An Opinion Piece (a Letter to the Editor page 131
"Saskatchewan Reads is a companion document to the English Language Arts Grades 1, 2, and 3 curricula. It was created based on sound research, specifically in reading, focusing on instructional approaches, assessment and intervention. Some of the key authors referenced include; Allington, Miller, Fountas and Pinnell, Davies, Cooper, Fisher & Frey to name a few. Furthermore, it showcases the diversity of promising practises that have proven successful in school divisions and First Nations communities within Saskatchewan. Some examples include: Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM), Reader’s Workshop, Balanced Literacy, Scaffolded/Guided Reading, Levelled Literacy Intervention and Running Records along with many others across the province.
The intent of Saskatchewan Reads is to provide a framework for school divisions and systems to build their own reading initiative that meets the needs of their unique student population. This document provides practical supports to teachers as they ensure their students are successful. It is intended to develop increased capacity at the school and system level with respect to improving student reading. The online version of Saskatchewan Reads saskatchewanreads.wordpress.com will be evergreen with live links and video of examples to clearly illustrate the many promising practices within Saskatchewan. The intent of the online version is to bring Saskatchewan Reads alive.
The motivation to create Saskatchewan Reads came from the need to improve student reading in this province as outlined in the Premier’s vision document, “Saskatchewan Plan for Growth: Vision 2020 and Beyond”. All 28 school boards in the province and the Government of Saskatchewan approved the development and deployment of Saskatchewan Reads.
Several Saskatchewan publications, along with documents from other provinces, were referenced when creating Saskatchewan Reads. As a result of this work, and more importantly, the skill and talent of our teachers in this province, our students will become proficient readers."