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Lesson Plan

Improving Literacy in At-Risk Populations

Subjects: Business Studies (Secondary), Canadian and World Studies (Secondary), Classical and International Languages (Secondary), Computer Studies (Secondary), English (Secondary), English As a Second Language and English Literacy Development (Secondary), French As a Second Language, Guidance and Career Education (Secondary), Health and Physical Education, Interdisciplinary Studies (Secondary), Mathematics, Native Languages, Native Studies (Secondary), Program Planning and Assessment (Secondary), Science (Secondary), Social Sciences and Humanities (Secondary), Technological Education (Secondary), The Arts

Levels/Grades: Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9

Focus: Literacy

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The project includes:

Classroom ready materials that will assist teachers in enabling at-risk learners to perform such literacy tasks as reading for content, or skimming a text. A practical guideline for such cross-curricular writing tasks as the essay, report and news articles. A compendium of teacher focused professional materialA compendium of teacher focused professional material

Files include:

Summary and Table of Contents

Advanced Video and Article Review
Basic Video and Article Review
Critical Reading Chart
Drop Everything and Read
Editing Tips
Exploring a Textbook’s Layout
Feedback Sheet
General Video and Article Review
Graphic Organizers Examples
Literacy Websites and Works Consulted
Pre-reading, Questioning and Re-reading
Searching for Key Ideas in a Text
Writing Made Easy
There are a total of 18 files.

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