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Work Books for Literature and Novels   
Grades  K-3



Responding to Literature in the Primary Grades
This unit consists of a series of activity cards for picture books and chapter books to help primary students respond to their reading.  Grades 1-3

Activity Cards for First Novels
Generic Activity cards and work sheets to accompany first novels for primary grades.  Grades 1-3

Reading With Curious George    
Activities for ten stories about Curious George, the little monkey created by H. A. Rey.  Grades 1-3
 
Reading with Franklin
A reading resource for primary grades using the Franklin books  by Pauline Bourgeois.

Reading With Roald Dahl
Novel Studies for seven of the author's popular novels.  Grades 3-6



Miscellaneous Subjects    Grades K-3

Language for Little Ones
For Kindergarten, Grade 1 and English as a Second language.

Pound It! Squeeze It! Paint It!   Kindergarten to Grade 3
A collection of suggestions and ideas for many art activities together with lists of materials and recipes for such things as finger-paint and play dough.

Teaching Science to Little Ones   Book 1  
This resource takes the objectives of a typical Grade 1 curriculum and presents teacher-friendly lesson plans and worksheets that any teacher can use in the classroom.  Grade 1 

HELP!! I have to teach music (Primary)
For primary teachers with a limited musical background.  Grades 1-3

Music Magic Book 1 
Activities and games to make learning music skills fun for the students, with suggestions and rubrics  for the teacher.  Grades 1-3

Pet Pals
Teaching students about the care and welfare of animals that can be kept as pets.  Grades 1-3

Fall Activities for Primary Grades  
Activities for returning to school, signs of Fall, Thanksgiving in Canada and the USA and Halloween. 
Grades 1-3

School as a Community
This unit teaches students about the concept of community, civic responsibilities and their role in the community.  Grades 2-3
A series of cards to introduce the student to the rubrics and rating system used for the Six Traits Analytical Writing Model.   Grades 1 - 4

Creativity in Bloom
A collection of art projects that teach artistic skills as students create beautiful flowers using a variety of materials.   
Grades 1 - 6 

Work Books for Novels and Literature    
Grades 4-6

ThemeQuotes
ThemeQuotes games link famous quotations to the themes of the books you teach!. Students must puzzle out the ThemeQuote by working in teams to answer trivia questions from the main novel. 

Fun With Great Works
A series of reproducible units based on classroom novels.  Each unit contains an assortment of word puzzles, such as crosswords, cryptograms, criss crosses, word searches, fractured maxims, word merges and more. Grades 4-1

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory  Grades 3 - 6
Roald Dahl's popular fantasy novel. Charlie Bucket finds a Golden Ticket that invites him to Willy Wonka's marvelous and very unusual candy factory.

Catmagic   Grades 3 - 6
A young girl's adventures while staying at her uncle's magical pet store.

Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little      
Novel Studies for two of E. B. White's popular novels.   Grades 3 - 6 

James and the Giant Peach   Grades  4 - 6
Roald Dahl's story of a boy's adventures as he crosses the Atlantic Ocean with some strange creatures.

The Novel Approach   The Revolutionary War  
   Grades  4 - 6  
This series of units is designed to integrate novels into teaching history, science and social studies. 

Six of the Best 
        
Novels which have been awarded the Newbery Medal.    Grades  4-6

Reading with Ramona
   Grades 4 - 6 
The collection begins with Ramona at nursery school and ends with her beginning the fourth grade. 


Because of Winn Dixie  Grades 4-6
Newbery Honor book for 2001 by Kate DiCamillo


Flight of the Dragon Kyn 
  Grades 4-6
A story about dragons and a young child, by Susan Fletcher.

Frindle
     Grades 4 - 6  
Nick, a student in the fifth grade invents an alternative word for a pen as a joke to annoy his English teacher.  However, this escalates beyond anyone's imagination when the story is reported in the local news. Novel by Andrew Clements. 

Whittington  by Alan Armstrong  Grades 4-7
A retelling of the English folktale, Dick Whittington and His Cat.  A battered tomcat tells the story of his namesake Dick Whittington to an audience of a group of animals. 

Tales of A Fourth Grade Nothing  Grades 4 - 6
Judy Blume's humorous novel about how Peter Hatcher copes with the trials and tribulations of living with a younger brother.

Superfudge  Grades 4-6
The sequel to Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing tells how Peter copes with five year old Fudge, a new baby sister and relocation to Princeton.


Double Fudge  by Judy Blume 
Grades 4-6   
The Hatcher family has more fun and adventures when cousins from Texas come to visit them in New York.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever   
by Barbara Robinson   Grades 4-6
The Christmas pageant is a tradition, but things change and chaos ensues when the terrible Herdmans insist on taking part.  Although the pageant is different than previous productions everyone agrees it really was the best Christmas pageant ever.


The Best School Year Ever 
  
Grades 4-6
The terrible Herdman children wreak havoc throughout the school year in the hilarious sequel to The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson


The Best Halloween Ever 
by Barbara Robinson  Grades 4-6
Halloween has been cancelled because the terrible Herdman children have been up to their usual mischief.


Freddy and the French Fries: Fries Alive!  Grades 4-6
Freddy wants to help the failing family business by winning the prize for the best float in a parade  
by David Baldacci.


Number the Stars     Grades 4-6
A novel by Lois Lowry about a young girl's life under the Nazi occupation of Denmark.

Pelly by David Glaze 
     Grades 4-6
Pelly is the story of a young girl in western Canada who befriends a pelican.

Stone Fox 
   Grades 4-6
John Reynolds Gardiner's novel about a young boy's effort to save the family farm.


Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter, a young wizard makes friends and overcomes challenges when he attends Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Grades 4-6

Morris Rumpel and the Wings of Icarus 
   by Betty Waterton       Grades 4-6
Morris visits his Grandparents, rides on an airplane and a horse for the first time, saves a family of peregrine falcons and becomes a hero.

Stanley's guide tells potential inmates how to survive Camp Green Lake, the juvenile detention facility, featured in the novel Holes.

Sarah, Plain and Tall    Grades 3-5
An historical novel by Patricia Maclachan  about  pioneer life on a farm in the 19th century.

Code Red at the Supermall      
Grades 4-6

This novel by Eric Wilson is one of a series of mysteries involving two young
detectives.

The Sixth Grade Nickname Game      Grades 4-6
Gordon Korman's amusing story about an ex-football coach who becomes a teacher.


Gordon Korman's amusing novels in a series about a hockey team from a small town in Canada.

Vancouver Nightmare  Grades  4-6  
A Tom Austen mystery set in Vancouver   by Eric Wilson


Cold Midnight in Vieux Quebec 
 
  Grades 4-6
Another Eric Wilson novel set in old Quebec City during the Winter carnival featuring super sleuth Tom Austen.


What's a Serious Detective Like Me Doing in a Such a Silly Movie? 
    
Grades 4-6
Stevie Diamond solves a murder mystery while working as an extra  on a film set. A novel written by Linda Bailey.


The Tale of Despereaux  Grades 4-6
The Newbery Medal winner for 2004 by Kate DiCamillo

Cassandra's Driftwood 
    Grades 4-6
A young girl deals with adolescence, a novel by Budge Wilson.  

The Janitor's Boy 
by Andrew Clements  Grades 4-6
Jack Rankin is ashamed of his father who is a janitor at the high school he attends.  The novel tells how the relationship between them changes as Jack learns more about his father's early life.

Meiko and the Fifth Treasure
This novel by Eleanor Croerr is set in Japan just after the atom bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
  Grades 4-6 

Tuck Everlasting   Grades 4-6  
Natalie Babbit's tale about a water spring that has the secret of everlasting life. 

Copper Sunrise   Grades 4-6  
This  novel by Bryan Buchan tells of the end of the Beothuks as Newfoundland is colonized.


The Hundred Penny Box   Grades 4-6 
A story about a young boy and his aged aunt's secret treasure box,  by Sharon Bell Mathis.     

 
Ticket to Curlew   Grades 4-6
Celia Parker Lottridge's story about a family who start a new life on the Canadian prairie in 1915. 

Wings to Fly    Grades 4-6
The sequel to Ticket to Curlew as the family adjust to their new life. 

Finders Keepers    Grades 4-6
A story of friendship and prejudice towards Native Peoples by Andrea Spalding.  

Pit Pony    Grades 4-6
The story of a young boy's life as a coal miner in the early 1900's by Joyce Barkhouse.

The Half-a-Moon Inn   Grades 4-6
Paul Fleischman's novel about a boy's adventures at a mysterious Inn.

The Canada Geese Quilt      Grades 4-6
A new baby in the family and an ill Grandmother bring rewards to a young girl, by Natalie Kinsey Warnock.

Shiloh  by Phylis Reynolds Taylor  
 
Grades 4-6
Marty finds an abused dog and doesn't want to return it to its owner. 

Paddy's Pot of Gold    Grades 4-6
Dick King-Smith's tale about a leprechaun and a young girl.

How Come the Best Clues Are Always in the Garbage?     Grades 4-6
This is the first of the Stevie Diamond Mysteries written by Linda Bailey

Fog Magic  
   Grades 4-6
A young girl who loves the fog, uses it to travel to her own fantasy world, by Julia L. Sauer

Mick Harte Was Here  
 
by Barbara Park   Grades 4-6
Phoebe Harte tells the story of the death of her brother in a bicycle accident by recalling events in his life.

Harriet the Spy
by Maya Gold   Grades 4-7
Harriet and  Annie, spy on the strange people selling Christmas  trees. Harriet is also intrigued by Annie's odd behaviour, and is determined to discover the reason for this. 

 Jacob's Little Giant     Grades 4-8
A novel by Barbara Smucker about the conservation of wild life as a farm family raise a flock of Canada geese.



The following Grade 4-6  Work Books are based on the  Hank Zipzer novels written by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver. 

Niagara Falls, or Does It?
Henry Winkler, who is dyslexic, based the central character in this first of a series of novels, on some of his own experiences.  

The Night I Flunked My Field Trip
More adventures with Hank Zipzer and his friends. The novel is set on a sailing ship with near disastrous results. 

Holy Enchilada!
Hank Zipzer and his friends welcome a Japanese exchange student to their school and take part in a multicultural day.

The Day of the Iguana 
Hank Zipzer plans a science project that requires little of the written work that is so difficult for him. 

I Got a 'D' in Salami
Hank Zipzer gets into more trouble when he tries to hide a poor report card from his parents.

The Curtain Went Up, My Pants Fell Down
Hank is chosen to play the part of the King of Siam in the School's winter musical.  However, his father insists he gain a B+ in a math test in order to do this.

The Zippety Zinger

Hank Zipzer loves baseball but lacks skills. However, one day he wears his sisters lucky monkey sock with surprising results.

Dump Trucks and Dogsleds: I'm On My Way Mom!
The sixteenth novel in the Hank Zipzer series, tells how he and his family have to return to New York by various forms of transport when his mother has a family. 
Help! Somebody Get Me Out of Fourth Grade!
It is the end of the school year and Hank Zipzer is horrified to discover that he might have to repeat the Fourth grade.  How can he prevent his parents from discovering this?

The Secret Life of a Ping-Pong Wizard
Hank Zipzer finds he is good at ping-pong but hesitates to tell his friends as they might not consider ping-pong a real sport.

My Dog's a Scaredy Cat
It's Halloween and Hank Zipzer and his friends in the fifth grade plan revenge on Nick McKelty as they construct a haunted house.

Barfin' In The Back Seat: How I Survived my Family Road Trip
The twelfth book in the series about Hank Zipzer and his family tells of his adventures as they travel to a crossword competition.

Who Ordered This Baby? Definitey Not Me!
In the thirteenth book of the series Hank learns that his mother is pregnant, and
decides to practice being a big brother by buying a pet.  When he chooses a tarantula for a pet not everyone is pleased.

A Tale of Two Tails
Hank enters his dog, Cheerio, in a show to win the honor of being the school mascot. Problems arise while training Cheerio and Hank has to do community service at a senior's home.

The Life of Me
Reading Gym seems a dull choice for Hank compared with Tae Kwon Do, until he develops a crush on one of the other students.
Work Books for Literature and Novels    
Grade 5 & up

10 Timeless Classics    
An introduction to the great classics of literature.
   Grades 6-9

More Timeless Classics
More great literary classics.  
Grades 6-9

Science Fiction or Fantasy?   
Classic novels written by authors such as Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Mary Shelley.Grades 6 - 9

The Emily Carr Mystery  Grades 5-7
Detective Liz Austen becomes involved in an exciting mystery at her friends wedding,  by Eric Wilson.  


The Pinballs   by  Betsy Byars      
Grades 5-7
Three children who have been abused and abandoned find love in a caring foster home.

White Jade Tiger   by  Julie Lawson   Grades 5-7
As Jasmine travels through time to help a young Chinese boy find his father, she learns about her own history.

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe  by C. S. Lewis   Grades 5-7
Four children have a series of adventures when they venture through a mysterious wardrobe into the land of Narnia.

Time Cat   Grades 5 - 7
Lloyd Alexander's popular story of a cat who travels back in time to various places in the world.

Space Trap  Grades 5 - 7
A girl is trapped on a strange world where aliens are kidnapped for zoo's. A novel by Monica Hughes.

Loser  by Jerry Spinelli  Grades 5 - 7
Donald is an average student, with a kind and considerate nature, but his failure to win a race earns him the nickname of Loser from his classmates.  Donald continues to be himself and the reader will consider who are the real winners and losers.

Al Capone Does My Shirts    by Gennifer Choldenko
Newbery Honor Book for 2005. Moose's family move to Alcatraz where his father works as a prison guard and his mother hopes they can send there autistic daughter to a special school in San Francisco.   


Al Capone Shines My Shoes  Grades 5 - 8
This sequel to the previous award winning novel continues the adventures of Moose Flanagan and his friends culminating in their success in preventing the escape of three convicts. 

Hana's Suitcase  Grades 5 - 8 
The true story of Hana Brady, a girl killed at Auschwitz, and how her suitcase came to be part of the Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center.

Elijah of Buxton   Grades 5 - 8
Buxton, a black settlement for escaped slaves in Ontario as seen through the eyes of Elijah, the first child to be born free in the settlement. 

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! - Voices from a Medieval Village  Grades 5 - 8
The 2008 Newbery winner by Laura Amy Schlitz. Set in England 1n 1255.

After Hamelin  Grades 5 - 8
Penelope has a special gift that allows her to recue the children stolen by the Pied Piper. This novel by Bill Richardson is a fantasy based on the fairy tale. 

A Christmas Carol  Grades 5-8
Charles Dickens' classic story of Scrooge, the three spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future and how they change his feelings about Christmas.

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle    Grades 5-8
The story by Avi about a  young girl's adventures when she travels from England to Rhode Island by ship in 1832.


Coast to Coast 
by Betsy Byers   Grades 5-8    
A thirteen year old girl and her grandfather fly across the country in a Piper Cub.

Maniac Magee  by Jerry Spinelli   
Grades 5-8
This novel, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1991, is the story of a young boy, Jeffrey (Maniac) Magee, who faces racism and attempts to soothe racial tensions in a small town while searching for a new home.

Julie  by Cora Taylor   Grades 5-8
Ju
lie is a young farm girl in western Canada who has inherited the gift of second sight from her Scottish grandmother.

Missing May  by  Cynthia Rylant    This is the story of how a young girl and her friend help her uncle to deal with the sudden death of his wife. 

Lost in Cyberspace     by Richard Peck    Grades 5-8
Josh Lewis and his best friend use computers to travel through time and bring people from the past into the present.  This is a fast paced and humorous book.  

Journey  by Patricia MacLachan     Grades 5-8
Eleven year old Journey searches for reasons why his mother left him and his younger sister with his grandparents.

A Single Shard           Grades 5-8
This Newbery  medal winner the story of an orphan in 12th century Korea, who overcomes many difficulties to become a potter.

Reading with Barbara Smucker    Grades 5-8 
A series of activity cards for language arts, research and art to be used with six novels by Barbara Smucker.  The novels used are: Amish Adventure, Underground to Canada, White Mist, Days of Terror, Jacob's Little Giant and Incredible Jumbo.

Nothing's Fair In Fifth Grade   by Barthe DeClements  Grades 5-8
When Elsie Edwards joins the fifth grade class she is ridiculed because she is very fat.  The situation worsens when money is stolen and Elsie is unfairly blamed.  Gradually the class realizes that Elsie is desperately unhappy and when they begin to see Elsie as a person with feelings and a desire to change she is accepted.
This novel shows that discrimination can take many forms and is always unfair. 

We All Fall Down 
by Eric Walters     Grades 5-9
Will is visiting his father who works in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.  The novel tells how they escape from the South Tower after the plane crash, and how this event changed their relationship and increases their understanding of each other. 

The Watsons Go To Birmingham -1963  Grades 6-8
Christopher Paul Curtis's novel about the Birmingham, Alabama church bombing in 1963.

Jasmin  Grades 6-8
A girl runs away from home and discovers her hidden talents, by Jan Truss.

The Giver  Grades 6 - 8 
Lois Lowry's popular novel about a utopian society and its effect on a young boy.

Willow and Twig
Abandoned by their mother, ten year old Willow and her four year old brother go to live with their grandmother.  The novel tells of their adjustment to this new life and a sense of security that neither has experienced before. By Jean Little. 
Grades 6-8


A Perfect Gentle Knight
A game based on the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, helps the Bell children deal with the  grief following the death of their mother.  Problems arise when Sebastian, the eldest is unable to distinguish between the game and reality. By Kit Pearson  Grades 6-8

Crispin: The Cross of Lead  Grades 6-8  
Crispin finds himself in danger after the death of his mother and his adventures as he flees across 14th Century England. The novel is written by Avi.
 
More adventures of Crispin, a peasant boy in 14th Century England.

Which Way Freedom?
  Grades 6-8
The story of Obi, a young slave, who decides to make a break for freedom, even if it costs him his life.

The Hollow Tree    Grades  6 - 8
This historical novel by Janet Lunn set in 1777.  A young girl's adventures during the War of Independence.
Summer of the Swans   Grades 6-8
A girl reluctantly takes care of her mentally handicapped brother, by Betty Byars.

Dragon in the Clouds   Grades 6-8
Rosemary Nelson's story of how a picture in the clouds results in the dream of a disabled boy being realized.
Holes    Grades 6-8
A Texas boy is wrongly accused of theft, a novel by Louis Sachar.
A mystery story set in Nineteenth Century Germany, by Joseph Holub.

Hatchet  Grades 6 - 8
A boy survives a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness and survives with only his wits and a hatchet.
 

The Wednesday Wars 
Grades 6 - 8
Set in the 1960's this Newbery Honor Winner, by Gary D. Schmidt, tells of a boy's growing maturity as he tells of his problems at school and home.


Olive's Ocean 
Grades 6-8
2004 Newbery Award Winner by Kevin Henke about life, death, growing up and personal relationships.
The Master Puppeteer   Grades 6-8
Katherine Paterson's story of Jiro who is apprenticed to Hoshido in his puppet theater.

Charlie Wilcox 
Grades 6 - 8
A biography set in the First World War by Sharon E. McKay tells of the adventures of a young stowaway on a ship bound for Europe.

Bridge to Terabithia
    Grades 6-8
Katherine Paterson's story of the friendship between a boy and a girl until tragedy strikes.

Messenger  Grades 6-9 
Giver series, it tells the story of Matty who leaves his village for one where he will be accepted and respected.

Gathering Blue   Grades 6-9

The second novel in The Giver series tells of a village society that lacks any modern technology and where brutality and self interest rule.

The Face on the Milk Carton  Grades 6-9
When Jane Johnson sees her own face on a milk carton featuring lost children, memories begin to surface and realizing she was kidnapped she begins to search for her lost identity. By Caroline Cooney

Torn Away  Grades 6-9
A young boy is caught up in the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland. Caught by the police he is sent to his uncle's home on Vancouver Island where he adjusts to a new way of life.

Seedfolks  Grades 6-9
A collection of stories by Paul Fleischman about old and new immigrants living in an apartment building in Cleveland which has a vacant lot nearby where they start to plant a garden.  

Daniel's Story  Grades 6-9 

The story of a young Jewish boy from Germany who survives the horrors of the Holocaust, by Carol Matas.

The Lightning Thief 
Grades 6-9
This is a fantasy novel by Rick Riordan that combines the trials of a modern twelve year old boy with adventures from Greek mythology.  The first of a series, it is excellent when used in conjunction with a unit on the Greek gods and mythology.

The War of the Eagles  Grades 6-9
Eric Walters' story about a young boy growing up in British Columbia in the 1940's. He learns to deal with racism, world conflict and to be proud of his cultural heritage.

Silverwing  Grades 6-9  
Shade is a Silverwing bat. He is very small and teased about his size.  This leads him to want to see the sun, which results in a series of adventures and misadventures.  It is filled with examples of figurative language and provides an excellent opportunity to discuss different kinds of prejudice.   Novel by Kenneth Oppel 

Sunwing   Grades 6-9 
In this sequel to Silverwing, Shade continues to search for his father, finally rescuing him and bringing peace between the owls and the bats.


Miscellaneous Subjects    Grades  5 and up

The XXI Winter Olympics  Vancouver 2010   
This unit for grades 3-8 was created to familiarize students with the history and aims of the Winter Olympics. 


My Dream Room
Teaches students how to apply mathematical concepts to real life as they design their dream room.  Grades 5-8

Hook Ups for Language Arts
Tutorial response cards to help students learn language arts concepts. Grades 5-8

Phileas Frog's Geographic Geometric Adventure 
   Grades 5 - 9 
A series of activities that reviews geometric concepts as students travel around the world as they try to free Phileas Frog.

Ginny's Hookups for Six Traits
A  series of cards to help students understand the rubrics and scoring system used for the Six Traits Analytical Writing Model.   
Grades 5 - 12

Music Masters 1
An overview of musical development from 1200 to 1850 for teachers with a limited musical knowledge. 
Grades 6-9

Music Masters 2
This unit focuses on composers and music development from 1825 to 1900. Grades 6-9

Music Masters 3
This series continues with the development of music in the 20th Century. Grades 6-9

A Jazz Journey
The story of jazz from its beginnings to the present day.  Grades 6-9
Work Books for Literature and Novels  
Grades  7 and up

 
The Novel Approach: 
Book 1 Canadian History from 1670-1837 Grades 7 - 8 

The Novel Approach: 
Book 2 Canadian History from 1866 to 1910 Grades 7 - 8 

The Novel Approach: 
Book 3 Canadian History from 1910 to 1936  Grades 7 - 8
 
Simply Shakespeare
Shakespeare: an introduction to his life and time, his plays and poetry.   
Grades 7-9 

A Cordial Invite from the Masters of Fright!!  Grades 7-10
The unit consists of a selection of poems and short stories to be read, dramatized and presented by the students.  Students also have the opportunity to write their own hair-raising story.

Lyddie  by Katherine Patterson   
Grades 7-9
The story of a young girl working in the woolen mills of Lowell,  Massachusetts, and the beginnings of the labor movement in the United States.

Far North   Grades 7-9
A story about survival in the North West Territories after an aircraft crashes, by Will Hobbs

The Sky is Falling    Grades 7-9
The story by Kit Pearson about two English children who are evacuated to Canada during World War 11.

Homecoming   by Cynthia Voigt  
Grades 7-9
This tells how the Tillerman children, led by the oldest, Dicey who is thirteen, find their way to there grandmother's house after their mother leaves them in the parking lot of a mall. 

Lost in the Barrens   Grades 7 - 9
Farley Mowats tale of survival by two boys lost in the wilds of Northern Canada.

Jacob I Have Loved  Grades 7 - 9    
A Story of sibling rivalry and learning to find your own strengths and talents, by Katherine Paterson

The Maestro   Grades 7 - 9  
A boy meets an eccentric musician who changes his life. Novel by Tim Wynne-Jones.

Awake and Dreaming    Grades 7-9
Kit Pearson's tale about hope and a child in a dysfunctional family.


After the War  by Carol Matas   
 Grades 7-9
The story of a young girl who survives the Holocaust, and her search for a new life in Israel.

Taming the Star Runner    Grades 7 - 8
S.E. Hinton's novel about the difficulties a group of adolescents face and how they react to them.

Reading with Jerry Spinelli   
A collection of humorous novels recommended for students who show little enthusiasm for reading.  
Grades 7-9

Day of Tears   Grades 7-9
This novel by Julius Lester was the winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for 2006. Based on historical fact, it tells of the largest slave auction ever held.

Walk Two Moons   Grades 7 - 9
A young girl searches for answers following her mother's death.  By Sharon Creech

Janey's Girl  Grades 7-9
Claire and her mother, Janey return to a small town in British Columbia, where Janey learns to come to terms with her past.  Novel by Gayle Friesen

Janet McNaughton's story about how a young girl's friendship with a crippled boy gives new meaning to her life.
Lizzie finds a pair of old spectacles that allows her to see into her grandmother's childhood, by Margaret Buffie.
The story of a Scottish immigrant and her coming of age, by Janet McNaughton.
Welwyn Wilton Katz's tale of Viking folk lore and a modern murder.
The first of four books in the Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. LeGuin, about an apprentice wizard.

My Mother's Ghost    Grades 7 - 9
The ghost of a young boy helps a family overcome their grief when they lose a child, by Margaret Buffie.

Phoenix Rising    Grades 7 - 9
Karen Hesse's story about a power plant accident and its effect on a fourteen year old girl.
Forbidden City  by William Bell   
Grade 7 - 9 
Seventeen year old Alex accompanies his father to China and witnesses the student demonstration in Tiananmen Square and its horrific aftermath.

Notes From the Midnight Driver  by Jordan Sonnenblick  Grades 7 - 10
A drunken teenager crashes his car into a neighbor's yard.  At his court appearance he is sentenced to community service in a nursing home with curious and unexpected results.

Random Passage  Grades 7 - 10
The story revolves around the Andrews family who were exiled to Newfoundland and landed at Cape Random.   There was only one other family there, but through the process of the story, we see how the settlement grew amid trials and triumphs.  It is an exceptional look at life in the early days of Newfoundland's history.


The Wild Children 
   Grades 8-10  
This novel by Felice Holman tells of the plight of homeless children and their fight for survival in Russia after the  Civil War of 1917

Lord of the Flies by William Golding     Grades 8-10
This novel tells how a group of schoolboys react when they are stranded on a desert island without adult supervision.

A Night To Remember     Grades 9-12
This is the story of the sinking of the Titanic and what happened when the largest passenger ship of the time struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank with the loss of many lives.  Walter Lord's book written as an historical novel is based on extensive research and interviews and is considered by many to be the definitive account of the tragedy.

I Heard the Owl call My Name  Grades 9 - 12
A young minister learns about life, death and the power of love when he is sent to a native village in British Columbia.

The Snow Goose   Grades 9-12
Phillip Rhayader is shunned by society after being rejected because of a deformity.  He befriends Frith when she brings an injured snow goose to him.  During World War II when British soldiers are trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk, Phillip makes many trips to help rescue them and is accompanied by the snow goose.

Night  by Elie Weisel   Grades 11-12  
The terrifying story of a young boy's survival in a Nazi concentration camp.


Miscellaneous Subjects         Grades  7 and up

Classroom Drama from Classic Literature
This workbook contains  scripts adapted from four classic short stories together with various activities to be completed after reading the scripts.  Also included are suggestions for using the unit, tracking sheets, rubrics for evaluation, peer and self evaluation sheets and a complete answer key.
 
QuoteFalls    
100's of word puzzles and their solutions for Grades 7-12 where letters are arranged from a grid to form a famous quotation.

Activity Cards for Ancient Civilizations

A series of activity cards, based on Maslow's Needs Theory, that can be used for the study of any Ancient Civilization.   Grades 7-8

Suffer the Children (Book 1) Orphans and Street Urchins

Suffer the Children (Book 2) The Child as Breadwinner
A study of the treatment of orphans, street urchins and the homeless in the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries. 
Grades 7-10

The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
This is a study of the diary kept by Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War 11 for almost two years.  Grades 7-9

The Native Peoples of Newfoundland and Labrador 
A study of the Beothuk, Mik"Maq, Innu, Innuit and Metis people and the effect of the European colonists on their way of life. Grades 7-8 

Canada At War
A unit that integrates English, history, geography, drama and visual arts while studying the wars and conflicts in which Canada has been involved.   
Grades 7 - 10

Teacher Resources     

Teacher Widgets
Many activities and programs for each month of the school year. 
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Winter Holidays, St. Valentines Day, St. Patrick's Day etc. 
These activities will encourage discussion, reading, creative writing, research and art. 
Suitable for all grades.

5 Minute Fillers
This unit contains lots of ideas to use in those odd minutes that frequently occur during the school day.  There are ideas for all subject areas that are adaptable for all grades and can be used with the whole class, a group or independently.  Useful for both regular and substitute teachers.

Praxis Teacher Certification Study Guide for Middle School Language Arts   
This guide was developed for Teacher Certification in the United States, but the information included would be valuable for anyone in the teaching profession for information and review.

Using Novel Studies in the Classroom    All Grades
Practical ideas for using novels in the classroom, with the whole class, groups and independent activities.

The Busy Teacher's Book of Forms
A collection of forms that every teacher uses throughout the year.  Included are forms for lesson and project planning, homework records, rubrics for writing and multiplication and additional squares.

Letters to the Family
A series of letters created for primary and junior grades that can be sent home to inform families about what is happening in your classroom throughout the year. These letters can be copied or used as models to personalize the letters that you send home.

September Sanity
A collection of dozens of proven tips and ideas to help the new Grade 3-8 teacher survive the first few weeks of school.

Espaņol...Pronto!
This book for is designed for teachers who may not have Spanish as part of their education. Student Edition and Teachers Guide. Grades 4-8
Creating an Informational Based Curriculum
The elements required to implement a student centered strategy utilizing the media center as an informational hub.

Tactile and Kinesthetic Activity Patterns
Direction and patterns to create a variety of TK activities for all areas of the curriculum.  
All Grades

The Gifts of All Children

Tells teachers, students and parents how to recognize, affirm and use the many and varied talents or gifts that each child possesses.    All Grades

The Politics of School Reform
An analysis of the current school reform movement, as it applies to the classroom teacher.



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