New! Popular lesson plan series and articles previously published in What in the World? and The Canadian Reader are now available for purchase as collections organized around a subject or theme. Offered in English and in French, collections vary in length and are delivered electronically in pdf format. Each collection may be reproduced and shared among teachers and students within one school.
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In today's digital world, the Internet and social media make accessing, creating, and spreading information easy, instantaneous, and far-reaching. Peter Adams, from The News Literacy Project, describes how today’s youth are 'digital natives' but also show 'digital naiveté', trusting many sources of information without considering their reliability or credibility.
This series of 6 lesson plans is designed to help teachers develop students’ news literacy, so they become critical consumers of what they see, hear, and read online (68 pages). Lesson plans include:
22 pages, $55.
This series of 9 lesson plans aims to develop students' non-fiction reading comprehension by explicitly teaching key reading strategies. Lesson plans include:
29 pages, $55.
Note-making is a very complex skill that involves many steps. This series of 9 lesson plans offers an easy-to-implement, effective approach to developing students' ability to take useful notes. Lesson plans include:
42 pages, $55
This collection of one-page articles, each accompanied by a complete before/during/after reading lesson plan, builds students’ background knowledge of their country and what it means to be a Canadian citizen. The relevant, practical content supports multiple areas of the curriculum. Topics in this themed collection include:
Use one or more of these collections of previously-published LesPlan articles (with accompanying curriculum) to begin building or supplementing a rich text set on a selected topic or issue.
For grades three and up.
Order each title separately.
For grades five and up.
Order each title separately.
For grades eight and up.
Order each title separately.
