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Prediction - Reading Strategy

In this lesson series students will be able to name specific text features. They will use text features to ask focused/thick questions about text to enhance understanding and comprehension.
Students will practice prediction, learn to identify text features, and ask deeper questions to preview text and predict content. Students will also set purpose for reading. Lessons will demonstrate the importance of setting purpose for reading, skimming text, identifying, and retrieving information from various text features, and inferring. Students will ask insightful questions – (questions that go beyond the factual) to improve comprehension and identify main ideas in text. This strategy improves focus, engagement, recall and retention of information.

• Grade 6
• Grade 7
• Grade 8

Tan Olokiskot? Naka Pemoluhkemkil

This module has been developed to support the Grade 6 Wolastoqey Latuwewakon curriculum.

• Grade 6

Qey Keti Kcicyul (Getting to know you)

This bundle introduces key Wolastoqey phrases and vocabulary to support the Wolastoqey Latuwewakon Grade 6 curriculum.

• Grade 6

Rhythm and Composition

This package contains lessons on reading rhythm & time signatures and composing using rhythm.

• Grade 7

Little Thunder

Learners will have the opportunity to view a video inspired by the Mi’kmaq legend “The Stone Canoe”. Throughout the lessons, they will create artwork inspired by the video and discuss the difference between appreciating and appropriating art from different cultures.

• Grade 7

Understanding my Emotions

This package examines the topic of human emotions. Students will explore what science says about human emotions and how they impact and influence our behaviors and experiences.

• Grade 6
• Grade 7
• Grade 8

Comparing Viral Replication to other reproductive Cycles

This bundle has guided teaching used to scaffold student’s research and writing skills for science. Teachers can adapt this lesson to make it higher level by outlining more details for the formal written report, including APA format and citation. However, teachers can lower the level for writing expectations by allowing students to make PowerPoints, Comics, informational book etc. The goal of this assignment is for students to write with a scientific voice which aligns with the audience.

• Grade 11

Components of Polynomials

This bundle will act as in introduction to key terms that will be required in later lessons when simplifying and performing operations on polynomial expressions.

This will emphasize the definitions of, and identification of components of terms/polynomials. There will be opportunities for individual and group practice to reinforce the concepts. Assessments for learning are engrained within the bundle as worksheets, activities, and check-ins.

• Grade 9

Understanding Powers

This bundle is an introduction to powers. It connects powers to repeated multiplication and prime factorization. Understanding the components and representations of powers are essential building blocks in order to progress into power rules and applications in future outcomes at this grade level. (Such as the extension to scientific notation)

Where this bundle mostly emphasizes concept introduction and practice, most materials included teach and reinforce concepts and skills rather than contextual applications at this point.

• Grade 9

Modelling Simplified Polynomials

This bundle will build from the Grade 9 Understanding Polynomials Bundle. It will take prior learnings about the components of polynomials, and extend it to include pictorial models of polynomials, understanding like terms, and simplifying polynomials using like terms/zero pairs/additive inverses.

The emphasis of this bundle will be on enriching students’ knowledge of polynomials.

• Grade 9

Understanding Numbers to 1000

In this bundle, you will find lessons that teach students how to describe numbers up to 1000 and how to illustrate the meaning of place value for numerals up to 1000.

• Grade 3

Multiplication

Why do we need mental math strategies when pen and paper is just as effective?

• Grade 4
• Grade 5