Ruth Solski

Broschiertes Buch

52 Weekly Nonfiction Stories About Canada Grades 7-8

Beschreibung

The 52 nonfiction stories in this book have been designed to familiarize and develop student awareness of the various Canadian topics while reviewing and strengthening various reading, language, and word study skills. Each topic contains an information story and a follow-up exercise designed to review and develop strong reading and phonetic skills. A year of nonfiction reading in one book! One story a week for bell work, review, indoor recess, enrichment or for the students who are done their work early. Section 1 Canadian Capital Cities Fact Card 1: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Fact Card 2: Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Fact Card 3: Fredericton, New Brunswick Fact Card 4: Halifax, Nova Scotia Fact Card 5: Québec City, Québec Fact Card 6: Toronto, Ontario Fact Card 7: Winnipeg, Manitoba Fact Card 8: Regina, Saskatchewan Fact Card 9: Edmonton, Alberta Fact Card 10: Victoria, British Columbia Fact Card 11: Whitehorse, Yukon Fact Card 12: Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Fact Card 13: Iqaluit, Nunavut Fact Card 14: Ottawa, Ontario Section 2 Canadian Bodies of Water and Islands Fact Card 1: The Mackenzie River Fact Card 2: The St. Lawrence River Fact Card 3: Yukon River Fact Card 4: The Fraser River Fact Card 5: The Great Lakes Fact Card 6: Canadian Waterfalls Fact Card 7: Famous Canadian Islands Section 3 Canadian History Fact Card 1: Chronology of Canadian Historical Events Fact Card 2: Chronology of Canadian Historical Events Fact Card 3: Chronology of Canadian Historical Events Fact Card 4: British North America in the Early 1800s Fact Card 5: Famous First Nations Heroes Fact Card 6: Rebellion in Lower Canada Fact Card 7: Rebellion in Upper Canada Fact Card 8: British North America Fact Card 9: People of the Plains Fact Card 10: Fur Trading in the West Fact Card 11: The Pacific Northwest Fact Card 12: Confederation Days (Part 1) Fact Card 13: Confederation Days (Part 2) Fact Card 14: Confederation Days (Part 3) Fact Card 15: The Great War Fact Card 16: The Post-War Years Fact Card 17: World War Two Section 4 Canadian Folklore Fact Card 1: The Boy and the Dragon Fact Card 2: The Maid of the Mist Fact Card 3: Nanabozho and the Raccoon Fact Card 4: Lost! Fact Card 5. White Horse Section 5 Canadian Trivia Fact Card 1: Provincial and Territorial Trivia Fact Card 2: Canadian Trivia Fact Card 3: Famous Canadian Trivia Fact Card 4: Hockey Trivia Fact Card 5: Canadian Sports Trivia Section 6 Famous Canadians Fact Card 1: Incredible Canadian Trailblazers Fact Card 2: Famous Canadian Leaders Fact Card 3: Famous Female Athletes Fact Card 4: Famous Male Athletes 124 pages including an answer key.

Autor

From the beginning of Ruth's teaching career, she had written her own lessons and theme units. In the early years, she was inspired by a school board consultant and wrote curriculum with a team of teachers for her school board. With the encouragement from a friend she decided to self-publish. In 1986 Ruth Solski started selling her classroom resources to teachers across Canada, under On The Mark Press.Today On The Mark Pres consistently evolves to comply with current curriculum standards. We want our learning resources to give, teachers and parents an edge for planning and implementing learning. Our activity-based lessons have more focus on practical exercises rather than teaching instructions. These resources can be used from start to finish, choose specific exercises or simply use them to stimulate creativity in the classroom. Our future including providing our resources in print, PDF eBooks/Digital download, and links for lessons for Google Classroom. Ruth's mission continues to be making learning fun for children and a teacher's workload lighter!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: On The Mark Press
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9781771589680
• ISBN-10: 177158968X
• Artikelnr.: 65005420