Stolen Words - A Reconciliation Resource - Inclusive Learning

Supporting Indigenous Resources for Inclusive Learning for Elementary School Students

Exploring the Intergenerational Effects of Residential Schools

Comprehension strategies used in this unit are: Summarizing, Connection, Visualization, Questioning, Infer, Main Idea and Problem/Resolution

No prep, easy to use reading response pages designed to focused on each reading strategy identified above are provided for multi-learning levels. Early primary to mid intermediate will have success using these response pages.

This short story unit was created to support a single read-aloud book, should a class set be unavailable.

Perfect for Orange Shirt Day, Stolen Words written by Melanie Florence and illustrated by Gabrielle Gimard, beautifully introduces to young children, the subject of residential schools and one of the many Intergenerational effects it has had on Indigenous people.

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When we Were Alone

Investigating the Injustice Through Children's Literature

Kookum’s Red Shoes

Missing Nimama

When I was Eight and Not My Girl BUNDLE

To obtain a copy of this book and others like it, I recommend checking out Strong Nations, an online bookstore supplying indigenous and Native American books. Not only do they have an extensive selection, they provide themed book bundles for all age ranges.