Miss Palimaka

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

This worksheet would be great to complete at the beginning of the year! It offers students a chance to communicate their concerns, interests, and goals. Responses can help educators develop student profiles and create differentiated instruction for students needs @PJLanguageArts

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

The article discusses speed-booking, an activity that supports students motivation to read! This would be great to include for students to practice reading comprehension and communication skills. It also suggests extension activities 📖📝🎭 @PJLanguageArts https://t.co/2SjYGb4d80

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

This worksheet would be great to use to get students thinking about their literacy learning goals, identifying progression, and articulating next steps! This activity helps build their comprehension, conceptual knowledge, communication, and writing skills 💭 @PJLanguageArts

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

A Dream For Every Season could be used in many ways cross-curricular! The discussion on seasons could lead into a science lesson; the beautiful illustrations could introduce an art activity; or focus on the book and dissect the literary devices within! 🌷☀️🍂❄️ @PJLanguageArts

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

When We Were Alone by David Robertson an Indigenous author shares the experience of residential schools through storytelling between generations. This would be a great read aloud to build students knowledge on Indigenous history, traditions, and practices @PJLanguageArts

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

Julián Is A Mermaid by Jessica Love is a great story for a read aloud. With a moral that reminds us to be proud of our individuality and support loved ones, this makes it the perfect book to introduce to your students for conversations on identity and inclusivity @PJLanguageArts

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

Looking to inspire your students? This book by Canadian author and astronaut Chris Hadfield teaches students that no dream is too big! The book ends with a short history on Chris. This could be a fun way to introduce autobiographies or ‘about the author’ sections @PJLanguageArts

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

Learning how to compare and contrast a variety of texts is important for students abilities to categorize, generalize, evaluate, and understand new information. During placement, we had fun analyzing differences within fractured fairytales and the original story📖@PJLanguageArts

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

It’s Random Acts of Kindness day! Here is a list of books with messages on kindness and empathy to help build your students social emotional learning. Spread some kindness today! ✨🌻☀️@PJLanguageArts https://t.co/oDB2o9Quz0

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

These crack the code cards are an engaging activities for students to practice letter recognition, letter sounds, and blending letters together to make simple words. 🔎📝@PJLanguageArts

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

Sight word tic-tac-toe allows students to practice their word recognition, fluency in reading, and confidence in spelling through repetition. This would be a great game to reinforce Word Wall words! @PJLanguageArts https://t.co/5XV2f5amXM

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

Sentence stems provide scaffolding for writing or speaking in complete sentence structure. These prompts are beneficial for ESL students as it provides direction, helps organize ideas, and relieves pressure on students when they formulate comments or questions. @PJLanguageArts

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

The Roll & Retell dice game is a fun activity to check students comprehension of a story! Place students into groups and ask them to have an oral discussion with their peers or create a written response. @PJLanguageArts

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

This article discusses the dos and don’ts for educators helping students learn to read. They also provide strategies for decoding texts and prompts to assess their learning @PJLanguageArts https://t.co/lbQOO6THYU

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

Here is the link to the resource: https://t.co/xPjDB7fHb7 @PJLanguageArts

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

ESpark is a free literacy resource that provides differentiated instruction and reports on student progress. This online tool for KG-Gr.5 includes guided lessons, instructional videos, and educational games that allow students to work independently at their own pace and level.

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

Journals can be an excellent “exit ticket” for your students at the end of the period or day. These journal questions are great for students to critically reflect on their learning while practicing their writing and communication skills @PJLanguageArts https://t.co/3wbtM7Toxn

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

These vocabulary games can be adapted for P/J students and are great for reinforcing understanding of content and building communication skills. These games could be utilized cross-curricular and would be engaging as unit review activities @PJLanguageArts
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[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

Graphic organizers are a great tool for helping students to brainstorm, visualize ideas, organize writing, sequence information, and increase their understand of text structure. Our gr.5’s enjoyed using this graphic organizer to guide their fairytale stories. @PJLanguageArts

[Miss Palimaka @palimaka_m]

During my placement the students were learning about parts of speech. To practice differentiating parts of speech they created individualized mad libs by adding in nouns, verbs, and adjectives. It was a fun way to review their knowledge and use their creativity! @PJLanguageArts