Media Production

The Media Production handbook offers strategies and resources to scaffold student production of media. The production process tools help students clarify thoughts, ideas and storyboard before diving into the technology.

• Teacher Handbook. Download 
• Tools for Students. Download 
• Teacher Planner – Planning for an animation project. Download 
• Deconstructing Text. Download 

Producing a Podcast

Tools to scaffold the podcast production process – Graphic organizers to storyboard, write a script, and have a clear plan.

• Podcast Planner: Beginning, Middle and End.  Download 
• Script and Soundtrack Planner.  Download 
• Enhanced Podcast Storyboard.  Download 

DWAC - Differentiating Writing Across the Curriculum

Differentiating Writing Across the Curriculum (DWAC) is a toolkit to scaffold student writing across genres.  From autobiography to article, photo essay to fantasy – DWAC includes graphic organizers and more to help avoid writer’s block.

• Teacher's Guide. Download 
• Story Samples. Download 

Response Cards and Guide

Students don’t know what to say? Get the conversation moving with response cards.  Includes a teacher guide with tips on using it in the classroom.

• Teacher Guide. Download 
• Response Cards. Download 

Problem Solving Cards

An activity to get students writing and responding from different points of view.  Each activity has instructions, links to the QEP (Broad Areas of Learning and Cross-Curricular Competencies), and teacher tools.

• Teacher Handbook. Download 
• Problem Solving Cards. Download 

How To - English Language Arts

Clever tutorials aimed at students to help them communicate through different genres.

• Write a letter. Go to page 
• Write an autobiography. Go to page 
• Write an article. Go to page 
• Create a comic. Go to page 
• How to do an oral presentation. Go to page 
• Create a reference list. Go to page 

Resources that support the teaching and evaluation of English Language Arts in Quebec

• Literacy Today Quebec. Teacher Inspired ELA Resources. Go to site 
• Quebec Reading Connection. Connecting the Québec Education Program to the World of Books. Go to site 
• DEELA. Learning and Evaluation Situations. Go to site 

Digital Citizenship. Go to site 

Q&A: Copyright Rules for Quebec Schools. Download 

Copyright Matters! Download 

Elementary

Elementary Education-English Language Arts. Go to site 

Framework for the Evaluation of Learning - Elementary School                                            Cycles One, Two and Three - Download 

Progression of Learning – Elementary ELA. Download 

Secondary

Secondary Cycle One – English Language Arts. Download 

Secondary Cycle Two – English Language Arts. Download 

Progression of Learning in Secondary School. Go to site