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Mental Health Matters: Using Literature Circles In The Grade 7 classroom To Talk About Hard Topics

Activity provided by Coralie Beghuin

This unit consists of students learning about mental health through a text of their choice (among 6 choices). Students are placed in a literature circle group in which they are to read and discuss their chosen book. Each text has some aspect of mental health (death, grief, Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, etc.). Other than… Read More »Mental Health Matters: Using Literature Circles In The Grade 7 classroom To Talk About Hard Topics

Levels: Secondary, Cycle 1, Secondary, Cycle 2, Secondary
Topics: Listening, Talk, Reading, Writing/Production
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Types: PDF, Slides
19 file(s) 2.28 MB
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Building Literacy and Understanding About the Holocaust Through Learning Stations

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.

Levels: Secondary, Cycle 1, Secondary
Topics: Listening, Reading, Writing/Production
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Types: PDF
9 file(s) 33.82 MB
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Let’s Get Graphic

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.

Levels: Secondary, Cycle 2, Secondary
Topics: Talk, Reading, Writing/Production
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10 file(s) 820.90 KB
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Photographic Narrative Writing

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!

Levels: Elementary, Elementary, Cycle 2, Elementary, Cycle 3
Topics: Reading, Writing/Production
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Types: PDF
3 file(s) 2.56 MB
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Introduction to Spoken Word Poetry

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

Levels: Secondary, Cycle 1, Secondary, Cycle 2, Secondary
Topics: Talk, Reading, Writing/Production
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Types: Slides
6 file(s) 7.73 MB
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I Am a Writer!

Activity provided by Ioulia Vassina

Students learn to identify and express the main idea of a story by studying the work of three different writers and then developing their sentence-building skills based on these authors’ writing styles. Unit activities include classroom discussion of the books, a written response to each book, and conducting peer- and self-evaluations. Please see the document I… Read More »I Am a Writer!

Levels: Secondary
Topics: Writing/Production
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5 file(s) 1.01 MB
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Flipped—An English Classroom

Activity provided by Patricia Morissette, Amber Coones

This unit addresses the issue of mental health, specifically depression and anxiety, through the use of film and text. Students will develop their reading, talk, and production skills through a variety of activities and projects.

Levels: Secondary, Cycle 2, Secondary
Topics: Talk, Reading, Writing/Production
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Types: PDF
10 file(s) 1.33 MB
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Silver Birch Award Reading Program

Activity provided by Jennifer Clark

The school bought a Silver Birch membership so that students could participate and select an award winner over the course of the project. Unit activities included making a book trailer, reading and writing book reviews, author visits, and voting for a favourite book among those read during the program.

Levels: Elementary, Cycle 2, Elementary, Elementary, Cycle 3
Topics: Reading, Writing/Production
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Types: PDF, Video, Slides
13 file(s) 31.00 MB
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Rights and Responsibilities: Exploring Stories from the Holocaust and the American Civil Rights Movement

Activity provided by Tiffany Dickie

This project deals with making historical connections between real life experiences, nonfiction and fiction. Through the study of various written and visual texts, and through an exploration of stories from the Holocaust and the American civil rights movement, students are invited to think critically about the responsibilities they have to uphold not only their own… Read More »Rights and Responsibilities: Exploring Stories from the Holocaust and the American Civil Rights Movement

Levels: Secondary, Cycle 1, Secondary
Topics: Reading, Writing/Production
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