Teacher's Resource - Nelson Education

Each lesson provides multiple opportunities for students to speak,listen, read, write, and develop media literacy. DifferentiatedInstruction suggestions are offered throughout the lesson toaccommodate student readiness (support or challenge), learningstyle, or interest. Each lesson engages students in meaningful group, partner, andindependent work, often supported by blackline masters (found atthe back of this Teacher’s Resource). Assessment materials on the closing page of each lesson includesuggestions for checking progress and next steps, accompanied by arubric for formative assessment.STEP 3 Conclude the Unit with the “Transfer Your Learning” lesson(Teacher’s Resource page 108). This lesson helps students reflect on and apply all the strategiesdeveloped in the unit to the types of text they will meet in othersubject areas such as Geography, History, Science and Technology,Mathematics, Health, and the Arts.STEP 4 Refer to the Unit Assessment section (Teacher’s Resourcepage 115). This section provides an integrated language unit Performance Taskfor summative assessment. The task is supported by rubrics availableon blackline masters. Also featured in this section is a Reading Assessment Taskthat provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate theirunderstanding of the strategies developed in the unit.OTHER NELSON RESOURCESOTHER RESOURCESBoldprint 6: Extinct andEndangeredBoldprint 8: Art SceneLiteracy Power D, E, FPower Magazine 6: Kick andSpikePower Zone Magazine 7:Stand By MeWrite Traits 6, 7, 8D’Adamo, Francesco. Iqbal. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers,2003.Ellis, Deborah. I Am a Taxi. Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2006.Ellis, Deborah. Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak. Toronto:Douglas & McIntyre, 2004.Hughes, Susan. Raise Your Voice, Lend a Hand, Change the World. Toronto:Scholastic Canada, 2006.Mead, Alice. Year of No Rain. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003.Nault, Jennifer. Save the Children. Mankato, MN: Weigl, 2002.Parker, Janice. Humanitarians. Calgary, AB: Weigl Educational, 2000.Senker, Cath. The Arab-Israeli Conflict. North Mankato, MN: Smart AppleMedia, 2005.Shoveller, Herb. Ryan and Jimmy and the Well in Africa That Brought ThemTogether. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2006.Walters, Eric. Shattered. Toronto: Puffin Canada, 2006.NEL Nelson Literacy 8 Teacher’s Resource Unit 1: Global Citizens 5