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Egg-stra!! Egg-stra!!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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Storytelling Model

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine how to model story telling for their classes. They investigate how to learn, rehearse and share stories.
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Creating Character

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils engage in a lesson that is about searching the attributes of characterization. They practice some of the basic moves involved in acting out a certain character while focusing upon basic skits like "the freeze". The exercise...
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Precise Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners complete acting exercises as a part of a precise language activity to help them build vocabulary and improve their descriptive writing skills. In this theatre and writing lesson, students create and act out a sentence with two...
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Dramatizing Your Story

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write a script, planning and recording improvisations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature and history.
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Talking Duck

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students study how animals communicate through their senses and signals. They investigate how animals survive using their communication skills and create a commercial based on the research.
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Was Goldilocks Innocent or Guilty?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders act out a mock fairy tale trial. They use a fairy tale like "The Three Little Pigs", "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", "Hansel and Grete"l, and/or "Little Red Riding Hood".
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Talking Duck

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students visit a local wetland or WWT centre and record their observations by writing or drawing on the downloadable pupil activity sheet.
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Shelly the Shell

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /sh/ sound through word practice and stories. They identify the initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/ using a...
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Shelly Shark Goes Shopping

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /sh/ sound through words and tongue twisters. They identify the initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/ through...
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Fish, Fish, Fish

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/...
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Creaky Door E

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars recognize the short vowel "E" in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and fill...
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When is Ed Fed?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel "E" in written and spoken language. Through listening and writing activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation...
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The Crying Baby says Waa! Waa!

For Teachers K
Pupils practice identifying and writing the letter "a." They say a tongue twister and identify the words with short letter "a" sounds. They then listen to the teacher read "A Cat Nap" and identify the words that have the "a" sound. ...
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Casper the Cat

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils examine the letter 'a'. Through instruction and modeling and a variety of practice activities, they explore the sound the letter makes and how the letter is written. They recite tongue twisters, read stories and use letterboxes to...
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Effective Speaking in a Debate

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine and discuss the concept of stage fright. They demonstrate positive debate techniques, constructively critique other speakers, and implement debate techniques for a practice debate.
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"Aaaaaaa...a Fast Crab! "

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on the skill of phonemic awareness. The phoneme chosen is the letter "a". They need to correlate the sound to the letter.
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What Did You Say?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel E in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and read pseudo...
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Crying Students

For Teachers K
Students recognize the phoneme for the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through a variety of activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter...
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Allie the Rat

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the letter a and the short vowel sound it makes. They do a tongue twister with the sound in it and write what the letter a looks like on primary paper. Students have to listen to or read a story called Pat's Jam and...
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Flip Flop Flee

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover the sound /f/ and practice making the sound and brainstorm a list of words that have the sound in them. They look at picture cards and say the words represented. They then try a fun tongue twister with lots of /f/.
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Pop Your P's

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the letter and phoneme /p/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /p/ sound through songs and tongue twisters. They identify the initial placement of the letter and sound using a picture...
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Open Wide and Say Ahh

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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Open Up and Say /o/

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.