CanTeach: Information - Concept Definition Mapping this Lesson will help students to focus on key components of a word and to be encouraged to combine what they already know with what they have just learned about the definition of the word. This concept map can be used with a variety of topics, and can be used with feeling words. 3-6
CanTeach: Information: gathering, analyzing, interpreting - Anticipation Guides These guides can be used to allow students to write down how they feel about statements that they heard in a story, and after reading the story to write down how a specific character feels about the same statements. This guide is beneficial in helping students to understand how decisions are made as well as how decisions can change with experience or exposure to certain information. 2-6
CanTeach: Information - You are What You Say: Personality Profiles Students will develop personality profiles by analyzing quotes of a character, a historical figure, a present day figure, etc... 3-6
CanTeach: Information - Different Perspectives: A Graphic Organizer Students will be introduced to the idea of having more than one perspective after reading a text, by re-reading for perspectives of each character in the text. 3-6
CanTeach: Information - Follow the Character Students will organize the main information about a character, which may help them better understand the character as well as the author's theme in a story. 3-6
CanTeach: Information - Sort and Predict Students will make predictions about what the text may be about by applying what they already know about categorizing to the present information given in the text. 3-6
CanTeach: Information - Useful Problem Solving Lists This activity offers strategies for solving problems that can be used for a variety of subject areas. 3-6
CanTeach: Information - Interviewing a Historical Figure This activity can be used to apply to character traits seen in historical figures, and to stimulate a discussion about why this person was successful and made a difference. 5-6
CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - My Life Map Students will learn and appreciate major events that have happened in their own lives as well as others' lives. 3-6
CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - My Personal Treasures Students will learn and appreciate the "personal treasures" of their classmates as well as their own. 2-6
CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - Chain of Compliments Students will give and receive compliments to and from their classmates; this activity promotes self-esteem and cooperation. 1-6
CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - This Is the Life Of... Students will express their personal characteristics through items that they bring from home . Classmates will be introduced to each other by deducing who the bag belongs to. 3-6
CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - Me Collage Students will use pictures from a variety of sources to tell about themselves; this activity allows students to reflect on their lives as well as to introduce themselves to their classmates. K-6
CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - Sometimes I Feel Book Students will examine the feelings of happiness, sadness, anger, and fear and examine instances when these feelings are present as well as positive ways to react to these feelings. K-2
CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - Dramatic Feelings Students will examine a feeling word and represent it in a dramatic presentation. Through this students will present and observe different situations that different feelings can exist in. K-6
CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - Spinning Feelings Game Students will examine the feelings and the typical feelings to certain situations. K-3
CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - Cruel Words Hurt Students will examine how insults and cruel words hurt people, and realize that you have to do a lot to make the hurt person feel better. K-2
CanTeach: Career Development - Career Collage Students will gather pictures from magazines that represent a variety of careers that they are interested in. The goal of this activity is to expose students to the numerous careers that exist in the world. K-2
CanTeach: English Language Arts: Novel & Picture Book Activities - Examining a Change in Character 4-6
CanTeach: English Language Arts: Novel & Picture Book Activities - Introduction to Character Traits 4-6
CanTeach: English Language Arts: Writing Prompts/Journal Topics Many writing prompts and journal topics to address academic issues, social and emotional issues, as well as prompts that allow children to be creative thinkers.
Novel and Picture Book Activities arranged alphabetically for all grades:
CanTeach: English Language Arts: Theme Book Lists - Coping With Death and Dying Literary Resources from grades Kindergarten through 7th grade.
CanTeach: English Language Arts: Theme Book Lists - Disabilities & Illnesses
CanTeach: Classroom Management - A List of Reward Ideas 6
CanTeach: Classroom Management - School/Class Pledges K-4