Language
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Creating an Imaginary Animal - Descriptive Language Activity
A creative activity to introduce students to descriptive and comparative language.
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Color by Parts of Speech Teaching Resource Pack
A collection of coloring worksheets that use parts of speech as indicators.
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September Homeschool Resource Pack - Grade 1
A collection of age-appropriate, Grade 1 teaching resources and activities for homeschool parents to use with their children during the month of September.
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Let's Build a Sentence Unit Plan
This English unit has been designed to introduce the key components of simple and compound sentences to younger students; specifically, capital letters and punctuation; verbs, nouns, adjectives, and conjunctions.
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Exploring Opinion Pieces Unit Plan - Grade 1 and Grade 2
This English unit has been designed to introduce the persuasive genre to younger students; specifically, the purpose, structure and language features of opinion pieces.
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Exploring Procedural Texts Unit Plan
This English Language Arts unit has been designed to introduce procedural texts to younger students. It addresses the purpose, structure and language features of instructions and recipes.
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Exploring Narrative Texts Unit Plan - Year 1 and Year 2
This English unit uses fairy tales to introduce the narrative text type to younger students. It addresses the structure, characters and language features of a narrative.
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Introduction to Personal Recounts Unit Plan
This writing unit has been designed to introduce the recount text type to younger students; specifically, the purpose, structure, and language features of personal recounts.
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Proofreading and Editing - Narrative Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply proofreading and editing skills.
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Dressing Up Sentences for Narrative Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use descriptive language to add additional detail to sentences.
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Modeled Writing - How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth
A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple procedure about a familiar experience.
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Simon Says!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore action verbs, common nouns, and adverbial phrases in procedures.
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Personal Recounts - Independent Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently construct a simple personal recount about a familiar experience.
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Adding Detail Using Describing Words
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how descriptive words, such as adjectives, can add detail to a personal recount.
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Action Verbs in Simple Past Tense
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how action verbs can be expressed in simple past tense.
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Sequencing Ideas Using Time Connectives
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how events can be sequenced using time connectives.
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Strong Words Make Strong Opinions
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how word choice can be used to strengthen an opinion.
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Opinion Piece Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the language features of opinion pieces.
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Let's Build a Sentence
A 60 minute lesson in which students will write simple and compound sentences.
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Building Compound Sentences
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that a compound sentence is made up of two or more main clauses joined together by a conjunction.
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Using Adjectives to Describe a Character
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use adjectives to describe the personality and appearance of characters.
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Using Adjectives
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that an adjective provides information about a noun and is often called a describing word.
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Common and Proper Nouns
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that a noun is a naming word used for a person, place, or object.
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Very Important Verbs
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that a verb describes an action in clauses or sentences.
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What is a Sentence?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that a simple sentence is a group of words that contains a subject, a verb, and expresses a complete thought.