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Material relevant to the teaching and learning of English Language Arts

Highlights for the Month  

Take a peek at some great sites featuring Children's Literature.
Canadian Children's Books 1799-1939 - guide to the special collection at The University of British Columbia Library
Canadian Children's Book Centre - a not-for-profit organization that promotes, supports and encourages the reading, writing and illustrating of Canadian books for children and teens
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - a collection of book reviews, ideas on ways to use books in the classroom, and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures - based out of the University of Winnepeg, "supports scholarly inquiry into literary, media, and other cultural texts for children and youth."
Communication-Jeunesse - Communication-Jeunesse is a nonprofit organization which supports Quebec literature and French-Canadian youth.
Database of Award Winning Children's Literature - use to create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards
International Children's Digital Library - a free collection of over 800 children's books from around the world
Children's Picture Book Database - abstracts of over 5000 children's picture books, including topics, concepts, and skills - useful for designing literature-based thematic units for all subjects
Young Adult Library Services Association - a great resource for booklists and YAL awards

 

Here are some great sites to help with lesson planning.

Archived Resources


 



Essential and Indispensible

The Service national du Recit - Domaine des langues is a Quebec resource designed to support students and teachers in developing competencies through the integration of technologies.
 

The Society for the Promotion of the Teaching of English as a Second Language in Quebec is a Quebec organization supporting the teaching and learning of ESL.  Lots of resources available.
 

Choice Literacy  is committed to providing innovative, high-quality resources for K-12 literacy leaders.
 

Read Write Think is dedicated to providing the highest quality practices and resources in reading and Langugage Arts instruction.

A Year of Reading is an amazing blog by Franki Sibberson and Mary Lee Hahn, two teachers with over 20 years of experience each who read...a lot!

 

To Inform and Inspire

(being updated at the moment so check back often)

 

 

Approaches and Adventures  - Link up with Quebec teachers to see what they are doing in their classrooms
 

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LES and Lessons - Take a peek at a variety of sources for lesson ideas and integrated unit possibilities
 

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Media Material - Movies, Music and more to bring into your classroom

 

Practical Pedagogy - Look into portfolio, inquiry, differention, evaluation, problem-solving, curriculum planning as well as many other pedagogical resources

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 		 Printed and Published - Find books, journals, articles and other such resouces to support your ELA classroom teaching

 

Strategies and Skills - "How-to" resources for teaching reading, writing, speaking and media in our ELA classrooms
 

Technology and Tools - User-friendly resources to bring your classroom into the 21st century
 

 

World of Websites - Links to some resources on the web to enhance your ELA curriculum

 
If you haven't found what you are looking for drop me a line at mstonebanks@learnquebec.ca and I will do my best to point you in the right direction.