Curated OER
Magazine Dollars and Sense
Students analyze magazine advertisements that appeal to them. They explore how tobacco companies continue to target teens in magazine advertisements. They explore how advertisers select magazine ad space.
Curated OER
Extended Families
Students examine the various combinations that contemporary extended families take on. They identify how strong communication skills are important to the health of the family after reading a an excerpt from a first-person fictional journal.
Curated OER
Entertaining Vancouver's Youth During World War II.
Learners investigate relevant period documents and artifacts and have the
opportunity to replicate a 1943-44 entertainment experience by viewing a program
of World War II era motion pictures on site at Vancouver's historic...
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NWT Literacy Council
Nwt Literacy Council: Adult Literacy: Best Practices in Action [Pdf]
"Best Practices in Action" is an extensive toolkit for northern educators working with adult learners on basic literacy skills. It is full of resources and lesson plans targeted to northern populations and traditional native culture.
Other
Quebec Ministry of Educ.: Functional Situations for Immigrant Literacy Stu [Pdf]
Adult immigrants to Canada often have no English and little or no education. This guide provides lesson units on basic life skills they need such as how to send money to another country, how to take public transit and how to plan a group...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Motherland: Lesson Plan: Family Planning
Engaging youth in discussions about family planning is difficult for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the general discomfort adolescents have talking with adults about sex. Sometimes it can be easier to talk about...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Maniac Magee
Have you ever read "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli? Use this resource to learn more about this book. An educational resource with discussion questions, extension activities and more.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Keep It Private (K 2nd Grade)
This lesson plan for young learners will teach them the basics of staying safe online. Students review what information is private and should not be shared without a trusted adult's permission. Learners then view sites that ask them to...
British Council
British Council: Go4 English: English for Arabic Speakers
Go4English is a website of the British Council dedicated to teaching English to Arabic-speaking children and adults. It includes lesson plans, self-tests, learning exercises, games, stories, songs, and many more activities and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating Question and Answer Books Through Guided Research
Contains plans for five lessons that develop research skills in primary students by having them create their own question and answer books. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher
Teaching resources, lesson plans, study guides, and other resources cataloged for easy access by language arts teachers. The majority of resources deal with reading and literature, although there are also sections on grammar, writing,...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher
Teaching resources, lesson plans, study guides, and other resources cataloged for easy access by language arts teachers. The majority of resources deal with reading and literature, although there are also sections on grammar, writing,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Collaborative Revising
Lesson in which students engage in an entire-group revising process, using a story which has already been written by the group. An excellent follow-up activity to the "prewriting and drafting" activity.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Collaborative Prewriting and Drafting
A very useful lesson plan that incorporates the process of collaboration to elementary students. Students brainstorm and use prewriting strategies to write a group story.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reading/writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts
Students will have a whale of a good time in this lesson plan in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.