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This dry-erase, full-colour flip chart is designed to:
- Promote Shared Mathematics
- Enhance visual literacy
- Encourage oral language
- Engage student interest
See sample Big Book pages.
  
Supports the instruction provided in the Teacher's Guide by providing opportunities for children to record their learning, practice, reinforce, and apply key concepts. Illustrations and contexts are designed to engage the primary student.
- Math at Home, a tear-out, take-home magazine-style family connection with mathematical information, Canadian trivia, and games
 
- My Journal invites students to use pictures, words, or numbers to show their learning
- Activities throughout include home connections to support learning goals for each lesson
- A Take-Home Story offers a literacy connection with activities
In Print
A binder contains a 8 modules (1 for each unit) that provides comprehensive teaching, planning, and assessment notes.
For the Unit:
- Mathematics Background discusses the big math ideas in the unit and how children will learn about them. Suggestions to support and make connections Across the Strands are provided. Curriculum across the Grades gives a guideline as to how the topic is addressed in the previous grade, the current grade and the next grade.
- Curriculum Overview provides an overview of the general and specific outcomes for the Unit, with the corresponding Lessons and Activities clearly identified.
- Planning for Instruction is a detailed planning chart for teachers with suggested time estimates, materials and additional support for each lesson.
- Planning for Assessment provides guidelines to assess for, as, and of learning with a detailed chart highlighting the Purpose and Tools, Assessment Process, and Recording and Reporting support.
- Unit Centres provide a choice of activities to support students’ learning that accommodates a range of student learning styles.
- Reproducible Blackline Masters to support teaching and assessment.
For the Lesson:
- Comprehensive Teaching Notes that support teachers Before, During, and After each lesson.
- Assessment For Learning teaching support with What to Look For and What to Do If You Don’t See It
- Literacy Links to resources commonly available in school libraries or classrooms
- Numbers Every Day suggestions provided
- Cross-Curricular Connections
- Activity Bank provides a choice of activities to support students’ learning that accommodates a range of student learning styles.
On CD-ROM
- Correlations to the WNCP Common Curriculum Framework
- Additional material provided to support provincial assessment requirements
- Blackline and Assessment masters in editable Word files. See the example below:
Introduce early math concepts and develop non-fiction reading skills and strategies.
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Number chants, rhymes, and songs that extend and support your math lesson.
NEW!
The Together Combined Grades Resource provides a practical tool for teachers with grade combinations. This helpful resource starts by the big ideas and learning outcomes, both unique and common to the grade combination. Yearly and unit planning charts support long-term planning. Lesson plans and materials lists draw from the grade-specific Teacher Guide while providing additional lesson supports to help teachers bridge the combined grades.
Download a preview sampler of a combined Grades 1 & 2 Lesson Plan from Unit 3: Addition and Subtraction (in pdf format).
Electronic math manipulatives and software tools: interactive technology to promote conceptual understanding.
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