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Activities for Red Dress Day (May 5) and for your MMIW unit. Includes activities for Missing Nimâmâ by Melanie Florence, a great book that helps younger students (Gr. 3 - 8) to understand and connect with this difficult subject matter. This lesson also includes teacher notes to help you to teach confidently on this difficult and sensitive subject matter. This mini unit includes: •Teacher Notes •Posters •Student notes •Red Dress Day worksheets •Missing Nimâmâ activities •13 activities to choose

I am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer is the perfect read aloud to teach your students about residential schools, Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. This resource includes everything you need for your I am Not a Number read aloud, including 20 handouts to choose from! It also includes residential schools information, so you, the teacher, can confidently and capably teach your students about this important subject matter. Student activities include: Reading comprehens

This The Academy novel study is all encompassing and comprised of chapter questions, prereading and supporting activities, answer keys, quizzes and a final test, final projects, & a word search. Everything is done for you and ready to teach! The Academy is a great novel for intermediate and middle school aged children, this novel would appeal to many boys who may have trouble finding a novel they connect to as the main character, Leo loves soccer and video games. This novel is great for buildi

This is a no prep, ready to teach Novel Study based on the novel Wink by Rob Harrell. It is comprised of printables, worksheets/handouts, literacy activities, quizzes/final test and engaging projects! Everything is done for you and ready to teach! Wink is a fantastic novel, full of teaching opportunities for Middle school students. The novel focuses on themes surrounding medical challenges, friendship, bullying, the trials of middle school, first crushes, and discovering one's passions. This n

Activities for Red Dress Day (May 5) and for your MMIW unit. This lesson contains activities and slides/handouts to help guide younger students (primary level) to understand and connect with this difficult and sensitive subject matter. This lesson also includes teacher notes to help you to teach confidently on this difficult and sensitive subject matter. This mini unit includes: •Teacher Notes •Slides •Red Dress Day worksheet •Red Dress Day booklet •Red dress bulletin board activity If you are l

This The Barren Grounds novel study is all encompassing and comprised of chapter questions, prereading and supporting activities, journal questions, a literary choice board, answer keys, quizzes and a final test & final projects. Everything is done for you and ready to teach! The Barren Grounds is a fantastic novel for intermediate and middle school aged children, it is thought provoking and raises important questions surrounding colonialism in North America, the foster care system, and Indige

This is a fully complete, ready to teach literary study based on the graphic novel novel edition of the short story Borders by Thomas King. This short story is a thought provoking story that deals with important themes such as discrimination, traditional land claims, the concept of nationality vs. citizenship and modern First Nation's issues. This literary study is all encompassing and comprised of chapter questions, prereading and supporting activities, answer keys, projects and a final test;

This is a fully complete, ready to teach Novel Study based on the novel Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton. This novel is a valuable addition to your Truth and Reconciliation unit and would be great for an intermediate, middle school or junior high school class. It is comprised of chapter questions with answer keys, journal entry prompts, prereading activities, quizzes and a final test with answer keys included, and supporting final projects! It can be used as a whole

This NISH: North and South novel study is all encompassing and comprised of chapter questions, prereading and supporting activities, answer keys & four final projects. Everything is done for you and ready to teach! NISH by Isabelle Picard is a novel that tells the story of twin siblings in Northern Quebec who are navigating challenges of Northern living, family illness, school, sports and friendships. This is a great resource to discuss Indigenous living, in an isolated Northern community. The

This Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe novel study is a faith based novel study that will enable students to connect with the strong Christian allegory within this fantastic novel. This novel study is all encompassing and comprised of chapter questions, prereading and supporting activities, answer keys, quizzes and a final test, final projects, & a word search. Everything is done for you and ready to teach! This novel study would be well suited for students between grade 4 - 7. This novel study c

This Canadian Fur Trade unit has everything you need to in order to teach your students about the Canadian Fur Trade. It is all encompassing and includes information on he fur trade in general, daily life for fur traders & everyone involved in the fur trade, maps, information on the Metis & voyageurs, Hudson Bay Company and North West Company and final projects, including a fur trade fair. This resource specifically meets all the fur trade learning outcomes in the grade 5 Manitoba curriculum, ho

This Great Bear novel study is all encompassing and comprised of chapter questions, prereading and supporting activities, journal questions, a literary choice board, answer keys, quizzes and a final test & final projects. Everything is done for you and ready to teach! The Great Bear is a fantastic novel for intermediate and middle school aged children, it is thought provoking and raises important questions surrounding colonialism in North America, the foster care system, and Indigenous story t

These St. Patrick's Day activities are a great no prep activity! They are ready to print and hand out and would work well in a Catholic or Christian school setting, or for Sunday School services. These activities focus on the history of Saint Patrick and include an emergent reader in both colour and black and white. This product includes 13 activities in addition to the emergent reader and Saint Patrick's life history handout. It includes both black and white and colour options. They would work

This novel study focuses on Wild Summer by James DuBern (also known as Knockoff Zoo: A Wild and Funny Adventure). This novel study features adapted activities for students who face learning challenges. Each chapter has three pages of activities, one page with basic questions, one with more in depth questions and one page featuring an adapted activity, these adapted activities do not require any writing or critical thinking. Please see the preview for examples of these activities. Wild Summer i

This No Prep resource is full of activities to support learning alongside the book Nutshimit by Melissa Mollen Dupuis & Elise Gravel. These activities are designed to go beyond basic comprehension and enable students to connect with nature themselves and fully understand the concepts of a forest bath and the honourable harvest. Included in this resource:•Prereading Activities Teacher Guide/Notes to accompany activities •Main Idea Activities •What is Nutshimit sorting activity •Living off the La

This is a fully complete, ready to teach Novel Study based on the novel Pax by Sara Pennypacker. It is 203 pages! It is comprised of chapter questions with answer keys, prereading activities, bookmarks, quizzes and a final test with answer keys included, and supporting final projects! Pax is a fantastic novel set in war time about a boy and who is on a reunification journey to find his fox, and all his adventures along the way. It includes themes of friendship, war, and self-discovery. This nov

These first grade math and literacy activities are a great no prep activity! They are ready to print and hand out. These activities would work well in a Catholic or Christian school setting. These activities focus on Bible Stories, including Daniel and the Lion's Den, Noah's Ark, The Birth of Jesus, The Birth of Moses, David and Goliath, and Easter. This product includes 31 activities! It includes both black and white and colour options, as well as both Canadian and American spelling. These acti

Stolen Words by Melanie Florence is a beautiful story of truth and reconciliation. I highly recommend this story for teaching your students about residential schools and truth and reconciliation this Truth and Reconciliation Day. A grandfather has his language stolen from him at residential school and his granddaughter helps him to get his words back. This story is forward looking and uplifting! This resource includes literacy activities to accompany this beautiful story. It incudes handouts and

This Orange Shirt Day Lapbook aims to serve as an engaging and interesting low prep activity for teachers to use, without skimping on learning about truth and reconciliation. This lesson aims to provide thorough information on residential schools so that students are able to meaningful honour residential school survivors on Truth and Reconciliation Day, and so that teachers are able to respectfully and confidently teach about this important and sensitive topic. Sections Included:• Title Image• O

ovel Study based on Eric Walter's Elephant Secret. This no prep novel study is all encompassing and is an entire unit done for you. Print and go! Elephant Secret is a great novel about a girl who connects more with elephants, at times, than she does with other people. (What a great theme for middle school students who struggle with fitting in with their peers!). This book also has an exciting cloning twist! A great book for upper elementary or middle school students, try something new this year