Kids Love Canada provides supplemental resources for themes like communities, animals, legends and folktales, families, trees, and more. Kids Love Canada: In Winter has big book and little book folktales on "Rabbit, North Wind, and Mountain Ash". A "Animal Bucks" board game. Storyboard stories on "Martha and the Northern Lights". Artist studies of Canadian artists like Mary Pratt. Rebus story for "Canadian Children in Winter". A Ribbon Candy art lesson by Monique Martin, and a family bookmaking activity for National Family Literary Day. Students will learn about Canada and reinforce skills like reading, math, and critical and creative thinking. Students will learn about Canada from material designed at a level they can understand. This Canada lesson provides a teacher and student section with board game, storyboard story, word cards, big books and little books to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Fun For Fall is designed for the beginner kindergartener. The hands-on activities are simple and are meant to deal with numbers 1-5. There are patterns and pictures for at least 10 hands-on activities. Our resource also includes an illustration for Class Discussion, 3 bookmaking patterns, and 6 certificates or awards. The "What Time Is It?" activity visually organizes your school day. Contents include hands-on instructions, patterns and pictures, discussions for class, and bookmaking. Our unit is sure to welcome the students to school. This Holidays lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, hands-on activities, big book, and awards to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Add some fun to your favorite big book story. In There Was An Old Lady, students will learn rhythm and rhyme in oral activities, while practising reading and learning to recognize point of view in the story. Contents include Big Book, Little Book, flannelboard and storytelling instructions, flannelboard patterns, storytelling prop, and activities. This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, big book, little book, flannelboard, and activities to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
What A Mess is a funny story about a girl who doesn't like to keep her room clean. Read the story as a supplement to your environmental theme study. Use the story as a kick start to a classroom environmental awareness project. Students will become responsible towards keeping their immediate environment tidy and clean. Students will realize that respect and responsibility towards a good environment can begin at home with their own belongings, and in the classroom that is shared with others. Students will listen to a story, participate in an oral discussion, and participate as Classroom Helpers. This Chants & Classifications lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, hands-on activities, and big book assembly to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Our resource is for the make-and-take lover, and for all students who like to participate in their own learning. Interactive Big Books allows students to manipulate the stories as they please. Rather than cutting and pasting the images, students have the freedom to move the pictures as they please. To make the big books and flannelboard story included in this lesson, you will need 2-ply Bristol board, scissors, glue 9 x 12" Kraft envelopes, wax crayons, and markers. Stories included in our resource are "The Big Pysanka", "One, Two", "Ice-Cream Cones", and "Share the Shapes". This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with flannelboard story, clip art, and big book assembly to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
The Mitten is an adaptation of an old Ukrainian folktale, rewritten rebus style for young readers. Read and reread the story, allowing your audience to participate. Use the story props to tell the story a different way. Students can participate by telling the story to each other. Also included are topics for discussion, how to assemble story, The Mitten story illustrations, Centre Book pages, hands-on activities, Mitten Day, pocket chart and bookmaking. Compare the rebus story to other versions of The Mitten, such as The Mitten by Alvin Tresselt, and The Mitten by Jan Brett. This Chants & Classifications lesson provides a teacher and student section with a variety of hands-on activities, big book, sequence, visual discrimination, and memory match to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Our Owls unit will provide resources to supplement a theme study of owls. Our unit is divided into 10 areas of study: Characteristics of an Owl, Habitat, Owls Love the Night Life, Owl Babies, Food for Owls, Night Friends and Owl Enemies, Different Kinds of Owls, Endangered Owls, Owls in Literature, and Owls in Visual Art. Resources included are: Owl Information, 19 Task Cards for Independent Learning, Student Record Sheet, Journal Word Cards, Owl Quiz, and Creative Writing Page. Students will increase "owl" knowledge, increase awareness of our environment, work independently (individually, in pairs, or in groups), follow instructions, and participate in a variety of activities that reinforce learning skills and objectives. This Animal Science lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, word cards, task cards, word search, and quiz to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
SQUEEK! Our supplement to your mouse theme or a theme of traditional folk tales and fairy tales is sure to be a hit. Includes big book pattern, sequencing patterns for City Mouse And Country Mouse, puppet patterns, and sequencing cards for The Mouse And The Lion. Activities include: "Visuals" contains clip art and organizational materials; "All Kinds of Mice" explores the different kinds of mice and where they live; "Traditional Mouse Tales" introduces old folktales about mice; and "Mouse Art" gives ideas for art activities. This Primary Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, board game, art and colouring pages to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Our resource contains patterns and pictures to make hands-on activities for your learning centre and bookmaking patterns for emerging authors. Use the patterns as directed, or use them for your own ideas in the classroom. Enlarge to make bulletin board and reduce to use as clip art. Always save your originals for your own ideas and to file as a resource. Our theme resource for Bears includes hands-on, bookmaking patterns, Bear activity cards and locker name tags, and songs. Other activities include: word recognition, colour recognition, counting and visual discrimination, shape recognition, sequence, ordering of size, and a mega puzzle. This Animal Science lesson provides a teacher and student section with hands-on activities, patterns, big books, and songs to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Big Books For Fall is a delightful collection of patterns and text to make three books: "If I Were an Apple", "Turkey Tales", and "School Today!". This easy and fun resource includes patterns and text so students can assemble their own big books. A follow-up discussion and activities are included after each big book assembly, including a survey, discussion of how children in different countries go to school, finding all the turkey feathers, and writing the lines of the Mother Goose rhyme on sentence strips. This Holidays lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, and big book assembly to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Like the making of mountains, your theme study of Earth could go on for eons. Our resource package provides you with learning centre-based activities, designed to introduce your class to the Earth as a whole, to the Earth's surfaces, to the air we breathe, and to pollution and our responsibility towards cleaning it up. Included in our resource are: Student Objectives/Topics for Discussion, Earth Task Card Instructions, Bulletin Board, Contract Sheet, Earth Task Cards/File Folder Activities, Hands-On Instructions/Patterns, Pocket Chart Ideas, Big Book Instructions, Big Book Patterns, Earth Art, and Teaching Resources. This Earth Science lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities and water cycle to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Little Boy Blue is another nursery rhyme with a twist. Based on the original nursery rhyme, little boy blue is responsible of looking after the sheep and cow; however, instead of watching over the animals, he is fast asleep under a haystack. Students will construct their own little, and big book of the story. The pages can be cut in one of two ways: on yellow Bristol board, or any colour Bristol board. Colour the provided illustrations and cut out the text. Students have the option of assembling the big book using a normal template, or using the provided haystack template. This Nursery Rhymes lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, little book and big book construction to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Rapunzel, Rapunzel! is a spin-off from the traditional fairytale. Before reading the Big Book version, students should be familiar with the traditional tale. For Kindergarten, you may want to tell the story orally, simplifying the storyline. Proceed with Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Students will use rhythm and rhyme in oral and written activities, will attempt and practice reading behaviours, will recognize the point of view of the story, will associate words and letters with sounds in a meaningful context, will recognize exclamation marks for placing emphasis, and understand purpose of the dialogue balloon and quotation marks. Strategies include reading to students, repeating repetitive patterns, and brainstorming. This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, big book, and little book assembly to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Our huge resource is an exciting study of primary and secondary patterns, and is loaded with activities youngsters are sure to love! Our unit features a collection of patterns, clip art, book mark templates, task cards, lacing and activity cards for events throughout the year. Themes included in this resource: Back To School, Autumn, Halloween, Christmas, St. Patrick's Day, Bears, Dinosaurs, Sea Animals, Butterflies, Farm Animals, Zoo Animals, and Pets. This Art lesson provides a teacher and student section with a variety of activity cards, clip art, task cards, templates, and book marks to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Children love to read rebus stories. The illustrations give them positive identification of words in the story. Here's 6 all new rebus stories. Use them as independent or group learning activities. Photocopy and give each student a book to read and create in. Colour the rebus illustrations and the cover, laminate and bind. Insert a paper clip on each page. Independently, or as a group, go through the story. Each student can take turns reading the book, adding his or her own illustrations. The 6 rebus stories included are: Ingrid and her 100 Hats, You Can Make Magic!, A Handy Handprint, The Little Red Hen, The Storybook Grandma, and My Goodnight Book. This Chants & Classifications lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, rebus stories, and creative thinking activities to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Just for Kindergarten is a teaching package designed for — you guessed it — Kindergarten. This Kindergarten resource has 85 pages of entertaining visual discrimination, colour identification, and counting activities. Contents also include Find and Count File Folder Activities, Counting Mats, and Big Book Patterns. The Big Book Patterns included in this resource are "26 Alphabet Bears", "Colours", "Bats are Black", and "One, Two". This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with visual discrimination activities, counting, and big book assembly to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Welcome to the Big Top! Our versatile resource includes a big book, changes, hands-on activities, and many visuals of the circus. Art activities include: Big Top Circus Train and What's Under the Big Top. We've also included a Big Top Poem, My Circus Word Book, the rebus story "A Life in the Circus," illustrations and certificates. Students will explore the early stages of language arts skills using a circus theme. A Big Top chart gives suggested classroom activities that stimulate creative thinking. The circus is an exciting event for all children. Under the Big Top can help you make your theme study more visually attractive. The Big Top Poem uses early math concepts, such as asking the students to put two elephants in the second ring. Students create several Big Books featuring illustrations and text. This Primary Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with illustrations, poems, big book, hands-on activities, word search, and card game to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Children enjoy reading and handling these "Big Book" flip books! They are fun and easy to make! Patterns and text to make 3 flip-style classroom Big Books are included for the following stories: Bingo — an old favourite, where letters are eliminated, lending to audience participation; Ten in a Bed — watch the bears fall out of bed!; and A Hungry Bear — count what he eats during the days of the week. Reading comprehension and organization are highlighted in this unit. Creativity and art are an essential part of these activities. This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, and big book assembly to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Our Fairy Tales unit combines traditional fairy tales with new and exciting activities that will enchant young students. This work file is based on traditional Fairy Tales. The activities inside; however, are new and exciting. You will find: Twenty Task Cards, most being open-ended. Each has delightful illustration that lends to the activity; A Student Record Sheet for his or her learning center workbook; Four Fully Illustrated Stories; A Fairy Tale Trivia Game, where students can test their trivia skills by answering the question cards; Reinforcement Activities for ordinals, alphabetical sequence, classification, dialogue, math, and visual discrimination; and Blank Activity and Task Cards. This Nursery Rhymes lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities and board game to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Big Books for Tots includes patterns and text to make 3 big books for emerging readers. The stories can be read independently or integrated with a theme study. Their friendly and lively style and easy and repetitive language will encourage your emerging readers to read and reread. "Big Bear's Balloons" reinforces colour recognition and counting skills. Students will also be able to recognize the sequence of events that leads to Bing's predicament. "Dana Banana" is a story about nutrition and one girl's love for bananas. Students will reinforce their knowledge of the days of the week and colour skills. "Twelve Hats for Tina" tells about Tina and her love of hats. Students will reinforce their knowledge of the months of the year and the seasonal holidays and occasions. This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, big book assembly, and word search to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Rebus stories give emerging readers the encouragement and success that they need. The picture provides a word clue, while establishing left to right tracking, and reinforcing the idea that words make sentences that make stories. The stories in this unit tell about the senses, things that are big and small, and the changing of the seasons. The creative activities encourage the students to express their ideas through art. Our unit includes longer chants for the slightly more advanced emerging reader, such as "I Love The Fall", "I Love My School", "The Story Of A Leaf", "I Love Winter", "I Love Spring", and "Summer Colours". This Chants & Classifications lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, rebus stories, and creative thinking activities to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Do you like Dragons? This and many other questions will be answered in our engaging unit. Students will create a "Big Book" by colouring the provided illustrations and using the provided text. Students complete a "My Dragons Word Book", in which students will fill in the provided pages with drawings and words. A "Don't Wake the Dragon" puzzle is provided for students to complete and colour. Our unit is ideal for teaching reading and writing as well as word recognition using a Dragon theme. This Nursery Rhymes lesson provides a teacher and student section with activities, colouring book, word book and word cards to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
This story in our resource was written in Lac La Ronge, SK in 1991 at a conference theme-building workshop. The co-authors have included Cree words in their dialect. The story is about a boy who looks for his fish. He sees all kinds of fish before he finds his pet. The story introduces Cree vocabulary of kinship words. The repetitive text provides encouragement and success for emerging readers. Themes involve families and pets. Included resources in our unit are patterns to make a big book, and patterns to make a flannelboard story. Students will learn kinship terms in another language or their mother language, will listen to a story, and will retell the story using pictures. This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, big book, and flannelboard to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Our unit is designed for young children to grasp the concept of the months of the year and the days of the week, and to ultimately take part in daily journal entries for developing creative thought and for planning. A lively rebus chant introduces the month. The monthly format gives a visual plan of the events that are to take place in the classroom or school for that month. The squares are large enough for the children to add their own entries. The journal pages have lines for written entries and a space to draw. Also included are two big book stories designed to help students learn about the months of the year, their special occasions, and the days of the week. This Primary Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, word search, blank calendar, and big books to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Start your emerging readers and writers with individual shape-books and optional sentence frames to work towards independent authorship. The ultimate goal of a creative writing program is to develop independent authorship. These bookmaking patterns can be used as a stepping stone. The story frames encourage a creative written and illustrated response. Patterns include: Every Body Needs a Home, Haunted House, My Pumpkin, Bunny Bunny Bunny, My Friendship Book, The Story of Tad, Busy as a Bee, and Are You a Butterfly. This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with bookmaking patterns to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
B is for Bannock — M is for Moccasin — T is for Tipi. The stories featured in our resource are being enjoyed by children and teachers across Canada in both provincial and First Nations schools. Aboriginal children read about things that are familiar and non-Aboriginal children learn about the cultures of First Nations people. Students will learn about traditional foods, develop their listening skills, participate in letter sequencing activities and write an acrostic food poem. Included are patterns and text to make 3 big books: B is for Bannock — a recipe for bannock, patterns for big book and little book stories; Inside My Tipi — patterns for big and little book stories, creative writing pages; and M is for Moccasins. This Canada lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities and recipes to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Creative Classroom Cooking contains 36 non-cook recipes for the independent cooking centre. Included are nutritious snacks, easy-to-read instructions, and minimal teacher preparation. Recipe words, such as ingredients, utensils and methods are used for technical literacy. Journal word cards are included for student reference. The recipes are provided in metric for young Canadian cooks. This Social Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, recipes, and word search to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Cowboy Hats, Boots and Books includes two big books, with little books for each as well as patterns for student bookmaking, songs, and rebus chants. Contents include: Cowboy Clip Art, Parts of a Cowboy, Cowpoke of the Day Bulletin Board, Cowboy Songs, Cowboy Chants, Big Book — Counting Cowboy, Little Book — Counting Cowboy, Big Book — One Good Cowboy Hat, Little Book — One Good Cowboy Hat, and Student Bookmaking Patterns. This Primary Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, big book, and bookmaking patterns to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Rebus chants encourage "reading-like" behavior and provide new readers with repetition and a sense of accomplishment. Chants are most effective if read daily. Once you get going, it only takes five to ten minutes each day. Packages contain rebus chants that can be enlarged to 11x17" to make a class big book, and bulletin board, or they can be photocopied for each child. Students can make their own chants booklet using the cover and border patterns provided. All the chants in our unit are based on themes and include "Dinosaurs", "Pets", "Bears", "Community Helpers", "Fairy Tales", "The Zoo", and "The Circus". This Chants & Classifications lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, chants and a booklet to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Let's Make a Book uses bookmaking patterns and stories to begin authorship. The ultimate goal of a creative writing program is to develop independent authorship. The following bookmaking patterns and story frames may be used as a stepping stone towards working and writing independently. Photocopy the pages onto coloured bond paper for added effect. Construction paper can be used for front and back covers. Set up a Bookmaking Centre, equipped with bookmaking patterns, scissors, glue, construction paper, plain and lined paper and library pockets and cards. Patterns include: My Kitty, Where's Dasher?, I Like the Night, Up in a Rocket, Hats!, My Sheep Book, In My Mitten, My Magic Runners, Cats!, and A Chicken Story. This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with big book patterns and assembly to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Stories for Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day and Spring combined with patterns and illustrations make up two big books and two felt boards. In our resource, you will find two big books: "Just For You" and "How to Make a Valentine Card". Also in our resource, you will find two felt or magnetic board stories: "I Can Climb a Rainbow" and "A Dewy Green Leaf". Each story has extended story activities. Reduce and photocopy little books for each child to read along with the story. Ask the children to illustrate their own little books of "A Dewy Green Leaf" and "I Can Climb a Rainbow". This Holidays lesson provides a teacher and student section with activities, stories, cut and paste to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
Our Let's Be Friends unit shows the similarities and differences between people. The story and songs included are about friendship and are written to the tunes of popular songs. Included are: The Friend Song, We are Best Friends, I'm Your Friend, I Can Be a Good Friend, and Let's Be Friends Big Book. Our resource allows students to assemble their own Let's Be Friends Big Book, by compiling the provided illustrations with the dialogue balloons. Students will have the opportunity to color their Big Books according to the specified color scheme. This Social Studies lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities and matching games to create a well-rounded lesson plan.
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