Unit Plans

Grade 2

• Traditions and Celebrations

Grade 3

• Native Studies

Grade 4

• Medieval Times

Grade 5

• Early Civilizations

Grade 6

• Breadwinner

Ministry of Education Documents

• Curriculum Documents and Exemplars
  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/curricul/curricul.html http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/language.html
• Resource Documents
  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/resource/resource.html
• Choices into Action
  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/discussi/choices.pdf
• Individual Education Plans
  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/general/elemsec/speced/iep/iep.html
• Policy/Program Memoranda
  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/extra/eng/ppm/ppm.html

Other Documents

• Standards of Practice for the Teaching Profession: http://www.oct.ca/en/CollegePublications/PDF/standards.pdf
• Ethical Standards for the Teaching Profession: http://www.oct.ca/en/College Publications/PDF/ethics.pdf
• Professional Advisory: http://www.oct.ca/en/CollegePublications/PDF/advisory100802.pdf
• Course Profiles and Exemplars: http://www.curriculum.org/
• Ontario Parent Council: http://www.ontarioparentcouncil.org

Poetry Lesson Plans

Grade 1

• Animal Theme

Grade 2

• Animal Poetry
• Free Verse
• Limericks
• Rhyming

Grade 3

• Choral Reading
• Similes
• Writing Descriptive Nouns

Grade 4

• Haiku
• Shape Poems

Grade 5

• Imagery
• Poetry Writing Warm-up
• Stone Soup Vocabulary

Grade 6

• Descriptive Poetry
  
• Onomatopoeia
• Performing Poetry Vocally

Suggested Supplementary (Optional) Support Items

Web Sites

• Ministry of Education
  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/welcome.html
  
• Ontario’s Early Reading Strategy
  http://reading.edu.gov.on.ca
• Children’s Literature Web Guide
  http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
• Canadian Children’s Literature Service
  http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/services/eclsc.htm
• Peer editing and writing as Process
  http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/llc/is/pe.html
  

Online Articles and Documents

• Creative Dramatics in the Language Arts Classroom
  http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed297402.html
• Balanced Reading Instruction: What is Balanced Reading?
  http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed435986.html
• Issues in Literacy Development
  http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/literacy/
• Balanced Literacy: Teaching the Skills and Thrills of Reading
  http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/teachstrat/balanced.htm
• Shared Reading: An Effective Instructional Model
  http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/literacy/em_lit4.html
• Summary of Position Statement: Phonemic Awareness and the Teaching of Reading
  http://www.reading.org/positions/phonemic.html

Teacher’s Links

• http://school.discovery.com/
• http://www.classroom.net
• http://www.teachnet.com
• http://www.schoolnet.ca
• http://encarta.msn.com/ (Encarta’s teachers’ resources)
• http://juliet.stfx.ca/people/stu/x94emj/bookmark.html (lesson plan links)
• http://www.educationindex.com/education_resources.html (Topic by topic)
• http://www.edselect.com/novel_studies.htm (readers’ guides for novels)
• http://www.kidnews.com/ (kidnews)
• ELAN (English Language Arts Network - Ontario)
  http://www.elan.on.ca/
• CCTELA (Canadian Council for Teachers of English Language Arts)
  http://www.cctela.ca/
• National Council of Teachers of English (US)
  http://www.ncte.org/

Literary Links

• http://www.eworkshop.on.ca/cfmx/edu/core.cfm?L=1&CFID=188484&CFTOKEN= 32790862&jsessionid=6--mrcqZ5-XR660M6FdouGt (eWorkshops in Literacy)
• http://www.collectionscanada.ca/read-up-on-it (Poetry theme for 2004-05)
• http://www.wier.ca/ (Writers in Electronic Residence)
• http://www.poets.ca/ (League of Canadian Poets)
• http://www.youngpoets.ca/ (Young Poets – for teachers and students)
• http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/ChildrenLit/index.html (Vandergrift’s Children’s Literature Page)
• http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown (The Children’s Literature Web Guide)
• http://www.CBCbooks.org (Children’s Book Council)
• http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/childlit.htm (Children’s Literature & Language Arts Resources)