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This website has some fantastic animated videos to help young children understand different aspects of writing. All of the videos are animated, under five minutes in length and feature a multiple choice quiz to assess student understanding of the topics addressed. You must sign up for a free trial account to watch any of the videos. These videos fit very well with our provincial curricular outcomes. |
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This resources provides you with the ability to quickly and easily create a wide range of puzzles to share with your students, including crosswords, word searches, letter tile puzzles and cryptograms. In addition, all puzzles can be imported into Microsoft Word so you can format assignments for your students. |
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This website contains links to hundreds of author websites, and there are many great language based resources found at Teaching Books. St. James-Assiniboia subscribes to this website, so all teachers in the division can access additional features, including read-alouds by some of the authors. |
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This resource has hundreds of poems that are appropriate for introducing students to different forms of poetry. At this website, there are also opportunities for students to write their own poems and share poetry that they have written. |
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This resource has about twenty popular picture books that are read aloud by 'celebrities', some of whom are much more prominent than others :-) |
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This website offers a wide variety of resources, including puzzles, language learning activities, and quality storybooks that are read aloud for students. The titles listed in the 'Story Books' category offer a wide range of interests and readability, and they are all appropriate for emerging readers. While the Tumblebook website requires a subscription to join, you can enter through the Winnipeg Public Library website to access all of the resources at no cost. |
