Raising Strong Readers (Infancy to High School)
(View Complete Item Description)Strategies for parents and educators to encourage children to read — from infancy to high school
Material Type: Primary Source
All resources in PeBL ELA Team
Parent Phonological Awareness Calendar - What you can do at home
(View Complete Item Description)The following is an example from 2018-2019 of what parents can do at home to support phonological awareness with their child at home. Each month has approximately 10 or more very short activities you can do with your child, and it includes the answers you should expect from your child.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Strategy Guide: Using Paired Reading to Increase Fluency and Peer Cooperation
(View Complete Item Description)In this strategy, students read aloud to each other, pairing more fluent readers with less fluent readers. Likewise, this strategy can be used to pair older students with younger students to create “reading buddies.” Additionally, children who read at the same level can be paired to reread a text that they have already read, for continued understanding and fluency work. This research-based strategy can be used with any book or text in a variety of content areas, and can be implemented in a variety of ways.
Material Type: Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Strategy Guide: Tracking and Supporting Student Learning With Kid Watching
(View Complete Item Description)In this strategy guide, you’ll learn how to use kidwatching to track and support student learning. Teachers observe and take notes on students’ understanding of skills and concepts and then use the observations to determine effective strategies for future instruction. Yetta Goodman popularized the term kidwatching, the practice of “watching kids with a knowledgeable head” (9). In kidwatching, teachers observe students’ activities, noticing how they learn and what they do to explore their ideas. Teachers then examine anecdotal notes and other evidence to see how and when students engage in learning. After this review, teachers use their observations to differentiate activities to meet the needs of individual students. The strategy is based on “a seek-to-understand stance by attempting to look at life, literacy, and learning through the children’s eyes” (Mills 2). By discovering how students learn, teachers are able to choose the most effective strategies for each pupil.
Material Type: Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Strategy Guide: Making Connections
(View Complete Item Description)Strategic reading allows students to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and their own experiences. Students who make connections while reading are better able to understand the text they are reading. It is important for students to draw on their prior knowledge and experiences to connect with the text. Students are thinking when they are connecting, which makes them more engaged in the reading experience. Students gain a deeper understanding of a text when they make authentic connections. However, teachers need to know how to show students how a text connects to their lives, another text they have read, or the world around them. In this strategy guide, you will learn how to model text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections for your students so that they may begin to make personal connections to a text on their own.
Material Type: Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Book Wizard: Teachers, Find and Level Books for Your Classroom
(View Complete Item Description)Use Scholastic’s Book Wizard to level your classroom library, discover resources for the books you teach, and find books at just the right level for students with Guided Reading, Lexile® Measure, and DRA levels for children's books. You can browse titles if trying to find a particular level, or search a specific title to get a grade level and a guided reading level as well. Teach your students how to use this site to help them learn how to find books they may be interested in at their reading level.
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Family Literacy & the PeBL Connection Presentation
(View Complete Item Description)The following presentation can be used to explain literacy at home and the PeBL connection.
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Level it Books
(View Complete Item Description)Find reading levels fast and digitally manage your library of books! A great way to organize, level, and track your books! Scan your book's ISBN to view the Lexile, Guided Reading, Grade Level Equivalent, and/or DRA levels for the book. We feature well liked books ranging from K-8 on a weekly basis here. Interested in high school level books? We have those in the app too! Educators If you are an educator and want to see your favorite book here, make sure to create a teacher account to submit book recommendations. Parents Depending on the reading level of your child, the book of the day will always be a great book for your child to read!
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Reading
A companion document to the Saskatchewan English Language Arts Curriculum-Grades 1, 2, 3
(View Complete Item Description)"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."
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Primary Source, Reading
Teaching Students with Reading Difficulties and Disabilities A Guide for Educators
(View Complete Item Description)Introduction Understanding Learning Disabilities Reading Development and Instruction Written Expression Instruction Assessment and Intervention General Teaching Considerations Transition Planning Self-Advocacy Appendices References
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Make Writing Professional Learning
(View Complete Item Description)The following is the .ppt presentation from Sun West on how to use Makerspace as a teaching/learning strategy for writing.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Grade 8 English Language Arts Teachers: Connecting the Pan-Canadian Assessment Program and Saskatchewan Curricula
(View Complete Item Description)How can I, as a Grade 8 teacher, support my students’ reading achievement? The Ministry of Education has developed a brief support document that outlines the link between Pan-Canadian Assessment Program (PCAP) and Saskatchewan English Language Arts curricula and offers some questions teachers could consider as they reflect on reading instruction and student achievement.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Primary Source, Teaching/Learning Strategy
ELA A10 & B10 Outcome Based Rubrics
(View Complete Item Description)These 4 point rubric exemplars were developed to provide a consistent and common resource that aligns with the Saskatchewan curriculum and provide opportunities for transfer of responsibility between educator and student. These rubrics are designed to be edited by educator and student.
Material Type: Assessment
ELA 20 Outcome Based Rubrics
(View Complete Item Description)These rubric exemplars were developed to provide a consistent and common resource that aligns with the Saskatchewan curriculum and provide opportunities for transfer of responsibility between educator and student. These rubrics are designed to be edited by educator and student.
Material Type: Assessment
ELA A30 & B30 Outcome Based Rubrics
(View Complete Item Description)These rubric exemplars were developed to provide a consistent and common resource that aligns with the Saskatchewan curriculum and provide opportunities for transfer of responsibility between educator and student. These rubrics are designed to be edited by educator and student.
Material Type: Assessment
ELA 2 Outcome Based Rubrics
(View Complete Item Description)These 4 point rubric exemplars were developed to provide a consistent and common resource that aligns with the Saskatchewan curriculum and provide opportunities for transfer of responsibility between educator and student. These rubrics are designed to be edited by educator and student.
Material Type: Assessment
ELA 3 Outcome Based Rubrics
(View Complete Item Description)These rubric exemplars were developed to provide a consistent and common resource that aligns with the Saskatchewan curriculum and provide opportunities for transfer of responsibility between educator and student. These rubrics are designed to be edited by educator and student.
Material Type: Assessment
ELA 4 Outcome Based Rubrics
(View Complete Item Description)These 4 point rubric exemplars were developed to provide a consistent and common resource that aligns with the Saskatchewan curriculum and provide opportunities for transfer of responsibility between educator and student. These rubrics are designed to be edited by educator and student.
Material Type: Assessment
ELA 5 Outcome Based Rubrics
(View Complete Item Description)These 4 point rubric exemplars were developed to provide a consistent and common resource that aligns with the Saskatchewan curriculum and provide opportunities for transfer of responsibility between educator and student. These rubrics are designed to be edited by educator and student.
Material Type: Assessment
ELA 6 Outcome Based Rubrics
(View Complete Item Description)These 4 point rubric exemplars were developed to provide a consistent and common resource that aligns with the Saskatchewan curriculum and provide opportunities for transfer of responsibility between educator and student. These rubrics are designed to be edited by educator and student.
Material Type: Assessment