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French Appreciation

The goal is for students to be able to see themselves as bilingual (or plurilingual) learners. Language plays an important role in our Canadian identity, and students need to feel a sense of confidence in and an appreciation of learning an additional language.

• Grade 6

La biographie

This unit explores the impact and influence of famous Canadians on music, art, sports, science, and innovation in the world. Students will practice and acquire new vocabulary appropriate for the theme of biography writing.

• Grade 7

Je me présente!

Students will learn vocabulary and expressions needed to understand when someone is describing themselves.

• Grade 6

J’exprime mon opinion

This package is focused on Speaking and Listening with the goal of building the vocabulary and structures essential to expressing and justifying opinions on a variety of topics.

• Grade 8

Youth Empowerment and Climate Change

This unit examines the role of youth activists and empowers youth to consider their own role in combatting climate change through the communities they are a part of.

• Grade 6
• Grade 7
• Grade 8

Making, Sharing, and Justifying Predictions

This set of lessons explores exceptionalities by having students activate their prior knowledge through a whole class carousel brainstorm activity. Then, they identify what they would like to better understand about exceptionalities and view a video of testimonials to help develop their understanding. Finally, they experience the world through the eyes of a person with exceptionalities who narrates a short story. Students make predictions about the plot at various checkpoints through the narrative, and, in groups, students make, share, and justify their predictions with textual support.

• Grade 9

CVC Decodable Resource 2

This is a generic resource package containing decodable texts that limit the use of digraphs and long vowels and introduce CVCC, CCVC, and some multi-syllabic words.

The pre-teaching of the letter names and sounds, and CVC word reading is assumed in the lesson plans.

• Kindergarten
• Grade 1
• Grade 2

CVC Decodable Resource 1

This is a generic resource package containing CVC decodable texts. The pre-teaching of the letter names and sounds, as well as what letters are consonants versus vowels is assumed in the lesson plans. Texts are cumulative, so that text 2, for example, provides practice with both the letters ASTIPN, and the letters OBFM and H.

• Kindergarten
• Grade 1
• Grade 2

Numbers to One Million

Students will learn different ways to represent numbers including number words, number form, expanded notation as well as with base 10. Students will learn and apply these skills throughout the following four lessons.

• Grade 5

Equality as Balance

The lessons in this resource bundle, describing equality as balance and inequality as imbalance, provides a variety of hands-on activities for students to explore the topic and deepen their understanding.

• Grade 1

Building Number Sense

This resource package focuses on building number sense using counting collections and daily subitizing practice.
Lessons follow the same format daily and students can work within the numbers they are capable or working with 1-20.
The first lesson includes what is a counting collection and how to do one.

• Kindergarten
• Grade 1

Adding Integers

This bundle will explore how students can represent positive and negative integers using different strategies such as integer tiles, number lines, and with the use of zero pairs. Students will explore multiple strategies to find the sum of positive and negative integers (integer tiles, number lines, and absolute values) to solve different problems. This bundle contains many activities to use to assess student understanding of concepts related to integers (formative assessment).

• Grade 7