The 12 lessons teach Beginner Level ESL students 240 common words to create conversation, improve comprehension, and initiate the writing process. Simple strategies incorporate new vocabulary into everyday life situations. Photo's help students recall vocabulary more quickly.

133 pages

Lesson Content Includes:

Lesson 1: Personal Information

Lesson 2: Family Information

Lesson 3: Numbers

Lesson 4: Colours and Seasons

Lesson 5: Telling Time

Lesson 6: Community Locations

Lesson 7: At the Supermarket

Lesson 8: At the Bank

Lesson 9: At School

Lesson 10: Medical Issues

Lesson 11: Medications & Medical Procedures

Lesson 12: Getting a Job

Created to help Grade 3 students prepare for the EQAO Mathematics Assessment test.

The 10 practice tests were designed to be similar to the actual test the students will be taking. The questions are either multiple choice or open response so that students can get familiar with the question/answer format.

The first 5 tests each feature a different key math skill for targeted practice: number sense and numeration, patterning and algebra, measurement, geometry, and spatial sense and data management and probability. Students struggling in any of these areas will benefit from this skill-specific practice.

The following 5 tests feature mixed math skills with questions that are a combination of all the math skills.

There is no particular sequence to the tests. They can be used in whatever order you choose to fit your students' needs.

80 pages including an answer key.

TEST #1: Number Sense and Numeration

TEST #2: Patterning and Algebra

TEST #3: Measurement

TEST #4: Geometry and Spatial Sense

TEST #5: Data Managements and Probability

TEST #6: Mixed Math Skills

TEST #7: Mixed Math Skills

TEST #8: Mixed Math Skills

TEST #9: Mixed Math Skills

TEST #10: Mixed Math Skills

20 tests to help prepare you Grade 6 students for the EQAO Mathematics & Language Assessment tests and increase their confidence with test taking!

Math:

The 10 practice tests were designed to be similar to the actual test the students will be taking. The questions are either multiple choice or open response so that students can get familiar with the question/answer format.

The first 5 tests each feature a different key math skill for targeted practice: number sense & numeration, patterning & algebra, measurement, geometry & spatial sense, and data management & probability. Students struggling in any of these areas will benefit from this skill-specific practice.

The following 5 tests feature mixed math skills with questions that are a combination of all the math skills.

There is no particular sequence to the tests. They can be used in whatever order you choose to fit your student's needs.

Language:

The 10 tests have been designed to be very similar to the actual test the students will be taking. Many of the questions are asked in a similar way so that students can get familiar with the questioning format.

Students will encounter different types of reading experiences as they make their way through the various tests including fiction and nonfiction stories, a newspaper article, a friendly letter, poetry, and informational text. They will then be asked to answer corresponding multiple choice and open response questions.

There is also plenty of writing practice as students are asked to write sentences, paragraphs, short stories, instructions, a description, a movie review, a poem, a letter, and a newspaper article.

There are also multiple-choice questions featuring essential grammar and writing skills.

160 pages including an answer key.

What teachers are saying about this resource!

• This was the perfect way to prepare my students for EQAO! Each day we focused on one test and practiced the skills. This really helped them feel prepared. Rachael G.
• Many great resources similar to the previous EQAO series which is useful to help build an understanding for the upcoming testing. Stephanie K.
• Great classroom resource and can be used very easily with students. Catherine C.
• LOVE AND HIGHLY RECOMMEND !!! Sandra G.

Created to help Grade 3 students prepare for the EQAO Language test. Students will encounter different types of reading experiences including fiction, nonfiction, diagrams and instructions. They will be asked to read sentences, paragraphs, and stories and then answer corresponding questions about the content or structure. There is also plenty of writing practice as students are asked to write sentences, paragraphs and stories and answer questions featuring essential writing skills.

Tests 1-9 have been designed to be very similar to the actual test the students will be taking. Many of the questions are asked in a similar way so that students can get familiar with the questioning format. There is no particular sequence to the tests. They can be used in whatever order you choose to fit your students' needs.

Test 10 is a bonus test to give students extra practice with specific language skills.

Over 150 worksheets to practice, review, and reinforce skills in reading and writing for Spanish students. The activities are in Spanish only and cover the following topics: phonics, reading for meaning, capitalization & punctuation, sentence writing, and story-writing activities. This resource is a compilation of four bestselling titles in our Spanish/English series. This resource has 160 pages.

Fonética/Phonics es un recurso efectivo para enseñar o revisar una gran variedad de conceptos fonéticos. Las actividades que se presentan en este libro incluyen prácticas de reconocimiento de consonantes al inicio de las palabras, la c suave y la c fuerte, la g suave y la g fuerte, vocales acentuadas y no acentuadas, dígrafos, unión de letras, división silábica, antónimos y homónimos. Los ejercicios también permiten practicar los aspectos de deletreo de palabras y sustitución de sonidos.

Leer para Entender/Reading for Meaning es un recurso efectivo para enseñar o repasar las habilidades lectoras. Las actividades en este libro brindan práctica en las siguientes habilidades de lectura: encontrar la idea principal, ver relaciones, sacar conclusiones, hacer inferencias, usar claves de contexto, notar detalles, observar secuencias, seguir instrucciones y comprender vocabulario.

Uso de las Mayúsculas y Reglas de Puntuación/Capitalization and Punctuation es un recurso eficaz para enseñar o repasar el uso de las letras mayúsculas y los signos de puntuación al escribir. Las actividades de uso de mayúsculas refuerzan el reconocimiento de por qué, dónde y cuándo se usan las mayúsculas. Las actividades de puntuación desarrollan la conciencia de dónde y cuándo se utilizan los signos de puntuación, como el punto, el signo de interrogación, el signo de exclamación, la coma y las comillas.

Composición de Oraciones/Sentence Writing: es un recurso eficaz para enseñar la correcta estructura de las oraciones. Las actividades de este libro ayudan a los estudiantes a reconocer la estructura de los cuatro tipos de oraciones: asertiva (decir), interrogativa (pregunta), exclamativa e imperativa (comando); las actividades también brindan práctica de escritura para cada uno de estos tipos de oraciones.

Composición de Historias/Story Writing es un recurso efectivo para enseñar o repasar las habilidades de escritura de historias. Las actividades en este libro brindan práctica en los siguientes conceptos: identificar la idea principal, identificar una oración temática, identificar y escribir detalles de apoyo, secuenciar oraciones, escribir historias descriptivas, narrativas y directivas, y completar historias iniciales con detalles de apoyo.

Here are 58 engaging and detailed illustrations that will inspire students' creative writing.

The images vary in complexity so that students with a wide range of critical thinking and writing abilities may engage meaningfully with them.

These ready-to-use worksheets are ideal for both at-home and in-class use.

They can be used to augment any writing program or may be used as a meaningful filler activity when students have spare time.

The illustrations may be used to generate ideas for short stories, poetry, letter writing, and much more! A student writing checklist included.

Each story starter worksheet includes an illustration and corresponding word list, a blank line for the story's title, and numbered blank lines for the story itself.

The word list includes keywords related to the illustration to help the students begin to think about their overall impression of the image.

The blank lines are numbered so that you may easily give students instructions on how long their creative writing piece should be.

Through the meaningful context of creative writing, students will:

• Express their responses to a variety of illustrations, using evidence from the images and their own knowledge and experience
• Develop ability in creative, independent thinking, and ordering of ideas in a logical sequence
• Communicate their ideas clearly and effectively
• Communicate their ideas for specific purposes and to specific audiences
• Apply previously learned basic skills of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and conventions of style and form
• Practice proofreading and editing skills

Jonas, an insightful twelve-year old, and his family reside in a unique society where there is no poverty, hate, fear, pollution, dissension, conflict, pain or love. To achieve this end, the society has gained control over every aspect of their lives. When Jonas turns twelve he is singled out to receive special training from The giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now it's time for Jonas to receive the truth and there is no turning back.

Reproducible chapter questions, plus comprehension questions, a story summary, author biography, creative and cross curricular activities, complete with answer key. 64 pages.

The students will:

- become acquainted with the writings of Lois Lowry.

- be introduced to a society that is opposite to their own.

- reflect on societal differences and similarities.

- reinforce reading comprehension skills in a variety of assignments and activities.

- appreciate living in a free and democratic society.

Novel by Lois Lowry.

This is a story of personal tragedy and achievement. Hatchet is the story of thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson's ordeal in the rugged Canadian North Country. While on route to visit his father, the pilot of the single-engine plane in which he is flying suffers a heart attack and Brian successfully crash lands the plane in a remote northern lake. With only a hatchet, the clothes he is wearing, and his incredibly strong will to live, Brian was able to survive his adventure in the wilderness for fifty-four days. The character, Brian, should serve as an example of perseverance and believing in one's own abilities.

Reproducible chapter questions, plus comprehension questions, a story summary, author biography, creative and cross-curricular activities, complete with answer key.

A novel by Gary Paulsen.

Fudge is a two-year-old terror who is frequently embarrassing nine-year-old Peter and destroying his things. Peter feels that his parents allow Fudge to get away with many things and he feels that they give him more attention. He is very discouraged with his situation and often feels like a fourth grade nothing. The day that Fudge walks off with Dribble, Peter's pet turtle is the last straw. Many children will readily understand Peter's difficulties with Fudge.

Novel by Judy Blume.

Reproducible chapter questions, plus comprehension questions, a story summary, author biography, creative and cross curricular activities, complete with answer key. 64 pages including an answer key.

Students will

- enjoy and appreciate the humor written in good literature.

- become acquainted with the writings of Judy Blume

- further develop their reading and writing skills.

This phonics workbook is an effective resource for teaching or reviewing a wide variety of phonetic concepts. The high interest worksheets in this book provide practice in the following skills: recognizing initial consonants, hard and soft c and g, long and short vowels, digraphs, blends, syllabication, antonyms, synonyms and homonyms. Exercises also provide practice in spelling and sound substitution. Worksheets in both Spanish and English.

Fonética es un recurso efectivo para enseñar o revisar una gran variedad de conceptos fonéticos. Las actividades que se presentan en este libro incluyen prácticas de reconocimiento de consonantes al inicio de las palabras, la c suave y la c fuerte, la g suave y la g fuerte, vocales acentuadas y no acentuadas, dígrafos, unión de letras, división silábica, antónimos y homónimos. Los ejercicios también permiten practicar los aspectos de deletreo de palabras y sustitución de sonidos.

Here is a ready-to-use bilingual series for busy educators and parents. This easy-to-use format provides Spanish content on the right-facing page, and the corresponding English content on the left-facing page. Wherever possible, the activities have been directly translated from one language to the other. This direct translation approach has been used with all activities featuring core skills that are the same in both Spanish and English. For the basic skills that differ between Spanish and English, an adaptation approach has been used. In the adapted activities, the Spanish content may be very different from the English content on the corresponding page - yet both worksheets present concepts and skills that are central to each language. By using a combination of both direct translations and adaptations of the activities, this bilingual series provides - worksheets that will help children develop a solid understanding of the basic concepts in both Spanish and English.

The skill focus is printed on the bottom of each page, and a complete answer key in included.

The Build Their Skills workbooks are designed to develop a strong foundation of basic skills that promotes a child's success in future learning

Andi and Bruce have reluctantly moved with their family from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Elmwood, New Jersey to live with an elderly great aunt who is a hypochondriac. During their stay, Andi and Bruce soon find themselves guardians of a number of stray dogs who have crossed their paths and decide to keep them in a deserted house down the street.

Activities in this lit link will guide their learning through chapter-by-chapter questions. Additional activities in vocabulary, word study, and personal development are designed according to research-based education principles to improve literacy skills in communication, critical thinking and more.

Book reports allow the young reader to share their thoughts about the stories they have heard or have read themselves. As well, students need the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of the materials.

Each section begins with a Teacher's Notes page that will provide suggestions to help you to introduce the sections and to obtain the best results from your students.

This resource contains six sections:

1. Vocabulary Development,
2. Identifying Important Information,
3. Character Analysis,
4. Summarizing & Sequencing Events,
5. Reasoning & Critical Thinking, and
6. Creativity & Design.

Aligned to Common Core Standards. A Common Core Standards chart is located on page 2, identifying standards covered. The page numbers are noted for easy access.

64 pages

Kids love the Magic Tree House Series! Here is a resource to help your students develop the literacy strategies necessary for them to derive meaning from print, read to find new information, and think and write creatively, all using The Magic Tree house chapter books as a springboard.

Includes:

• Story summaries
• Reproducible work sheets for 17 Magic Tree House books
• Teacher suggestions
• Resource list
• Story student reading record
• Answer key

Expectations

l. To introduce the students to Mary Pope Osborne, her writings and her style of writing.

2. To encourage reading for pleasure and discussion of reading.

3. To encourage students to research for information about material they have read.

4. To develop literacy strategies necessary to obtain meaning from print.

5. To develop the students' abilities to think and write creatively.

Story Summary and activities for these 17 Magic Tree House Books:

1. Dinosaurs Before Dark
2. The Knight at Dawn
3. Mummies in the Morning
4. Pirates Past Noon
5. Night of the Ninjas
6. Afternoon on the Amazon
7. Sunset of the Sabertooth
8. Midnight on the Moon
9. Dolphins at Daybreak
10. Ghost Town at Sundown
11. Lions at Lunchtime
12. Polar Bears Past Bedtime
13. Vacation Under the Volcano
14. Day of the Dragon King
15. Viking Ships at Sunrise
16. Hour of the Olympics
17. Tonight on the Titanic

Meet the Herdsmans, Imogene, Ralph, Claude, Gladys, Leroy, and Ollie. They are the worst kids in town. Everything changes when they hear about the Christmas pageant. They put on their own interpretation of this Christmas story.

A novel by Barbara Robinson.

Reproducible chapter questions, plus comprehension questions, a story summary, author biography, creative and cross-curricular activities, complete with answer key.

The students will:

- practice the major strategies used during the reading process.

- practice and reinforce a variety of language skills.

- develop a love for humorous readings.

- improve and develop their creativity.

- be assessed through the use of a novel as a teaching tool.

A complete guide for teachers and students. Written from a student's perspective so that teachers may give students the pages they need.

This resource is designed to prepare and help students write essays in the first years of secondary school. It will be helpful for students at higher levels of education who have had difficulty with essay-writing in earlier years.

Because it teaches a basic formula approach to essay-writing, it is designed as a starting point only. If students expect to excel at essay-writing at the university level, they need to build on basics which are presented here. However, students who have never experienced success at writing essays will benefit from studying this resource.

Much of this resource is written from a students perspective, so that teachers may give students the pages which they need or so that students can purchase the book to use as they write their essays at home.

Contents include:

What is an essay?

• Definition and history, of Love by Sir Francis Bacon, The Essay and the Report,
• Examples of Essays and Reports, Samples of Essays and Reports, Activity #1: Recognizing Essay and Report Topics, The Parts of an Essay, Thesis Examples, Evidence.

Prewriting

• Brainstorming, Research, Selection of Arguments, Pre-writing Plan

Writing the First Draft

• The Thesis Paragraph, Transitions, a Sample Thesis Paragraph, Paragraphs in the Body, The concluding Paragraph, The Pattern, Using Quotations in the Essay, Footnotes and Bibliography

Editing and Revising

1. A Sample Editing Sheet for an Essay
2. Style: Sentence Variety, Precise and Effective Diction, Precise and Effective Nouns and Verbs, The Intended Audience, Tone, Focus and Emphasis, Subordination, Parallel Structure, Varying Syntax
3. Activities to Improve Style: Sentence Variety, Precise and Effective Diction, Precise and Effective Nouns and Verbs, The Intended Audience, Tone, Focus and Emphasis, Subordination, Parallel Structure, Varying Syntax
4. Mechanics: Common Errors in Spelling, Consistent Verb Tense, Use of the Semi Colon
5. Conclusion

Writing the Final Draft

A Sample Essay

Resources

Appendix A: Overheads

Supports Common Core Standards for Writing, Text Types and Purposes.

64 pages

Pippi is a silly little girl who lives without any grown-ups at the edge of the village with a monkey and a horse. Pippi's absurd stories and enormous exaggerations fill this story with humor and excitement.

Pippi Longstocking is a nine year old girl who lives all alone in an old house at the edge of a tiny town in Sweden. Pippi's mother died when she was a tiny baby. For awhile she was raised by her father, a sea captain, who sailed on the great ocean and Pippi accompanied him on his ship. One day he was blown overboard in a storm and disappeared.

Pippi left the ship and went to live in a home called Villa Villlekulla, Mr. Nilsson, a monkey and Horse lived with her in the house. Tommy and Annika were two children that lived next door to Pippi. Tommy and Annika were two children that lived next door to Pippi. They loved Pippi and enjoyed playing with her because that had so much fun and they never knew what could possibly happen.

Reproducible chapter questions, plus comprehension questions, a story summary, author biography, creative and cross curricular activities, complete with answer key.

Novel by Astrid Lindgren.

Learning Objectives:

1. To introduce the students to a tall tale.

2. To develop and improve independent reading skills.

3. To develop in students an appreciation for humorous writings.

This fast-paced story follows the struggle by the Danish family of Annemarie Johansen as they help their Jewish neighbors reach safety during the Second World War. It's 1943 in Copenhagen and the Nazis won't stop. The Jews of Denmark are being relocated, so Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be part of the family. Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission and she must find the strength and courage to save her best friend's life.

This lit link contains chapter questions & answer key, language & literacy activities, and a teacher guide for easy implementation.

The students will:

- develop a love of and an appreciation for good literature.

- improve and extend independent reading skills.

- practice responding to literature in a variety of creative ways.

- become familiar with the problems the Jewish people had during World War II.

A novel by Lois Lowry.

Rob Horton is a young boy whose mother has recently died. His father uproots him from everything he knows and takes him to Lister, Florida to live in a seedy motel. Rob keeps all of his emotions locked up inside and will not share his feelings with anyone. When ugly red blisters appear on Rob's legs at school, the principal fears it is a contagious infection and sends him home. On his way home, while walking through the misty Florida woods, Rob is shocked to find a real-life tiger pacing back and forth in a cage. On the same day, Rob meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who is outgoing and readily displays her feelings.

Reproducible chapter questions, plus comprehension questions, a story summary, author biography, creative and cross-curricular activities, complete with answer key.

Novel by Kate DiCamillo.

List of Skills

Vocabulary Development:

1. Using content clues

2. Locating descriptive words/phrases

3. Listing synonyms, antonyms, homonym

4. Use of capitals and punctuation

5. Identifying syllables

6. Listing compound words

7. Determining alphabetical order

8. Use of singular/plural nouns

9. Developing dictionary skills

10. Identifying parts of speech

11. Identify an analogy

12. Identifying an idiom

13. Identifying a simile

14. Identifying alliteration

15. Identify onomatopoeia

16. Identify personification

Setting Activities:

1. Identify the details of a setting

Plot Activities:

1. Complete a Story Map

2. Determine the role of others in one's personal growth

3. Identify the climax of a novel

4. Identify conflict in the story

5. Develop a Storyboard

6. Identify point of view

7. Predict an outcome

Character Activities:

1. Determine character traits

2. Compare two characters

3. Relating personal experiences

4. Understand concepts: coping with loss, friendship

Creative and Critical Thinking:

1. Research

2. Create a Reader's Theatre presentation

3. Write a letter to a character from the novel

4. Conduct an interview

5. Create an Observation Chart

6. Write a description of personal feelings

7. Create a poem

Art Activities:

1. Design a cover for the novel

1. Develop a Storyboard

2. Design a poster

Overall Expectations

The students will:

- develop their skills in reading, writing, listening, and oral communication.

- use good literature for developing skills: reasoning and critical thinking, knowledge of language structure, vocabulary building, and use of conventions.

- become meaningfully engaged in the drama of literature through a variety of types of questions and activities.

- identify and describe elements of stories (i.e. plot, main idea, characters, setting)

- learn about the dynamics of grief, anger, and isolation, coping with the loss of a parent, forging healthy relationships, accepting responsibility for one's actions.

- learn the healthiness of expressing one's feelings/needs to those close to us.

- relate events and feelings found in the novel to the student's own lives and experiences.

- appreciate the importance of friends and how relationships can contribute to personal growth.

- appreciate that the growth of one's character is often the result of opportunities and trials that come into one's life.

- learn the importance of dealing with adversity and developing perseverance in the face of difficult experiences.

- state their own interpretation of a written work, using evidence from the novel and from their own knowledge and experience.

This story tells about the love a little girl named Fern has for a pig, named Wilbur and his friendship with a large gray spider named Charlotte A. Cavatica.

Reproducible chapter questions, plus comprehension questions, a story summary, author biography, creative and cross-curricular activities, complete with answer key.

The students will:

- become familiar with the writing style of E.B. White.

- develop and enhance their reading comprehension skills orally and in written form.

- develop their independent work habits.

The experiments in this book fall under eight topics that relate to two aspects of life science: Interactions Within Ecosystems in the Environment; and Plants for Food & Fibre.

In each section, you will find teacher notes designed to provide you guidance with the learning intention, the success criteria, materials needed, a lesson outline, as well as some insight on what results to expect when the experiments are conducted.

Suggestions for differentiation are also included so that all students can be successful in the learning environment.

Eight Topics Include:

1. Ecosystems and Biomes
2. Ecosystems at Work!
3. Roles in the Natural World
4. Food Chains and Webs
5. Ecological Succession
6. Human Actions and Technology
7. Plants At the Root of It!
8. Soils and Plant Growth

96 pages.