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A Few Blocks by Cybele Young Groundwood Books, 2011 ISBN 978 0888999955 grades K – 1, suitable as teaching text to grade 3 A few blocks...
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The Vole Brothers Roslyn Schwartz. Toronto, ON: Owlkids, 2011. 32 pp., hardcover, $16.95. ISBN 978-1-926818-83-2. Preschool-kindergarten / Ages 2-5....
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“When I was a young girl outsiders came flitting about the North. They plucked us from our homes on the scattered islands of the Arctic...
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A Few Blocks by Cybele Young Groundwood Books, 2011 ISBN 978 0888999955 grades K – 1, suitable as teaching text...
Helping Young Writers Learning to Wri...
The Vole Brothers Roslyn Schwartz. Toronto, ON: Owlkids, 2011. 32 pp., hardcover, $16.95. ISBN...
Vocabulary Instruction for Middle Sch...
“When I was a young girl outsiders came flitting about the North. They plucked us from our homes on the...
Vocabulary Instruction in the Junior ...
Arctic Stories (1998, Annick Press) is another book that provides insight into traditional life in the Arctic Circle,...
Vocabulary Instruction – Primary grades
posted on: Apr 17, 2012 | author: loretta
Hide and Sneak, (Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak and Vladyana Krykorka, 1992.) is an Inuit tale, clearly meant to instruct children as to one of the uses...
Featuring Vocabulary Instruction as part of W...
posted on: Apr 12, 2012 | author: loretta
The Daily Five has gained popularity amongst teachers for its ease of use and effectiveness. Five independent activities – reading to self,...
Brain Friendly Vocabulary Instruction
posted on: Apr 9, 2012 | author: loretta
Brain research indicates that to understand and store information about a new word we must transform or personalize the meaning. In other words,...