Features
Teacher's Notes
The lessons have been written to enable teachers to deliver effective
student learning. Each lesson has comprehensive supporting teachers’
notes including lesson aims, lesson overview, preparation, suggestions
for questioning strategies, summary and review ideas, as well as
suggestions to extend the lesson.
Rhyming Patterns
This
kindergarten lesson uses the RM Easiteach Speak Text feature to
investigate the rhyming patterns in the word endings. Students then go
on to spot the rhyming patterns in simple words, then they use Word
Builder cards to make new words with the same endings. Poems
This
7th Grade lesson uses the RM Easiteach Split Screen feature with a
Writing Frame to consider the tone, form and figurative language used
in both poems. They then compare and contrast the different styles.
Students are then challenged to write their own poems based on the work
they have done in the lesson. Writing Frames
Writing frames are used to give a supporting structure to the emerging
writer. There are 50 writing frames in all covering nonfiction topics,
for example, compare, contrast, explanation, report about a living
thing, watching a video, as well as fiction examples, plot study,
retelling a story, and writing a review.
Text Resources The
text resource bank contains examples of nonfiction, fiction, poetry and
plays. In this poetry example, students can use the Highlight Word
feature in the English Language Arts Toolbar to compare the two
different rhyming patterns. Teachers can use the How to Make a
Milkshake book to show students the format of an information book, look
at the contents and index pages, and explain how a picture can replace
a thousand words. The play texts can be used by teachers either as
scripts to perform the plays or as examples of how a play text is
formatted differently to the text in a book. | 
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Spelling There
are different lists for US and Canadian spellings. These are organized
into phonemes, clusters and vowels. They can either be used for the
students to copy down the words or the teacher can print the lists and
hand them out. | 
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