Primary Junior Language Arts/Literacy

An integrated ESL language arts program for Indigenous children.
Emphasizes respect for child-initiated experience, acknowledging that it is personal and unique. Offers great potential for children to have concrete active learning experiences that are meaningful to them. Encourages talking and doing as a way for further language development.

A system to make handwriting available to children as an automatic, natural skill. Includes a wooden letter set, alphabet cards, student book, and teacher's guide.

A fun game the whole class can play together to reinforce active listening and cooperation. There are four different games, each with 37 question and answer cards. The standards-based sets include: Synonyms, Antonyms, Homophones and Parts of Speech. Each student will have a card that answers a previously-asked question and then asks the next question."--box.

The Phonics Handbook provides a year’s worth of detailed step-by-step lesson plans and notes for teaching Jolly Phonics. The teaching is multi-sensory with fun actions and stories to engage children in their learning. Introduces the 42 letter sounds and main alternative spellings of vowels plus tricky words. Guided writing sheets included. Contains reading comprehension sheets. Provides a detailed guide to teaching the five key skills taught in Jolly Phonics.

"A comprehensive reading program containing: 12 books, poster, parent letter"--container.
Each book is a brief story emphasizing one of the short or long vowel sounds, plurals, or blends sh or ck.

These colourful sets of puzzle cards provide an excellent, hands-on introduction to basic skills. Puzzle cards are self-correcting -- only cards with the correct answers will fit together.

"Reinforce good handwriting habits as you teach students to form sentences and become confident writers. Daily lessons in the teacher's guide promote vocabulary and sentence skills with Word Cards and common classroom objects. Builds vocabulary and sentence writing skills, engages children in learning with active, hands-on lessons, works with any language arts program, takes only 10-15 minutes a day"--Handwriting Without Tears.

"Roll the red cubes to ask critical comprehension questions--who, what, where, why and how--about any reading assignment. Great for reinforcing grammar concepts and for use in writing activities across your curriculum"--Publisher's catalog.

Trait Crate Grades Kindergarten, 1 and 3 available.