Activity provided by Vicki Fraser
Elementary students explore, enjoy and work with wordless picture books! It encourages them to create a well-written story incorporating figurative language and reminds them of the important relation between pictures and the carefully chosen words that accompany them.
Activity provided by Sandra Bernatchez
Activity provided by Laura Leblanc
In this project, a partnership of two teachers work to build a unit that teaches students about the Holocaust, while at the same time raising literacy levels and encouraging critical thinking. Importantly, materials and activities are differentiated through the use of learning stations.
Activity provided by Alison Holloway
The overarching concept that guides this unit is “who is on the inside, and who is on the outside?” Students will explore stereotypes, media portrayals, biases, privilege, intersectionality, and race/gender/ability as a social construction. Two essential questions that inform this unit are: 1) What is discrimination? and 2) How does discrimination persist in contemporary society?
Activity provided by Cecilia Anne Coyne
Wanting to move away from “I like it” or “I didn’t like it” when her students were responding to a text, this project is designed to help students to become more confident expressing their own opinions, ideas and observations about texts without teacher prompting, and to learn to evaluate what texts mean to them for themselves.
Activity provided by Tracey Blonder
Students find that stories become more interesting when there are illustrations as these make the stories alive and feed children's imaginations. Use wordless picture books in your classroom to get students thinking AND writing!
Activity provided by Kimberly Hardy
Follow one teacher’s use of “book tasting” and student-teacher conferencing to encourage and develop her Secondary One (Grade Eight) students to develop a personal reading profile that reflects their own tastes and interests as readers.
Activity provided by Matthew Kennedy
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Activity provided by Anne Beamish
This unit can serve as an introduction to the world of spoken word poetry. The activities included serve as both the immersion into text that precedes and informs the writing process, as well as the first steps into the writing process. Please see the document Introduction to Spoken Word Poetry by Anne Beamish for full unit… Read More »Introduction to Spoken Word Poetry
Activity provided by Melanie Beaudin
This unit concentrates on helping students to express their preferences, viewpoints, ideas and opinions about the novels they read. The genre of science fiction provides the content and book clubs/literature circles provide the context.
