"Reaching Higher Ground"

Presenter Materials

THANK YOU to all our presenters
who have generously made available their materials
to ELAC's members

 

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Conference Session Materials 

JANET BELL:  “Maximizing Safe, Ethical, and Efficient Use of the ’Net in ELA” (Grades 7-9, separate ELAC Web page)

GLORIA MICHALCHUK and MARG IVESON Argumentation in Creative Responses in the 2006 Part A (Writing) ELA 30-1 Diploma Examinations (ELA 30-1)

STEPHANIE GREGORWICH: “Real, Live Literature: Hosting a Literary Artist” (General, 66 KB pdf -- Young Alberta Book Society)

KURTIS HEWSON & LORNA ADRIAN: 
“Facilitating Change in Successful Schools: One School’s Journey to Improve Student Reading Levels” (Grades 1-6, 842 KB ppt)

LINDA HUOT:  “Taking the “gram” out of grammar: Teaching grammar in context” (Grades 7-9, separate ELAC Web page)

DENISE LEMIEUX: “Exploring the Underworld of Junior High Through Literature and Media” (Grades 7-9, 1.0 MB pdf)

SONIA MANGIERI & TAMMY MYSKIW:  “Jump start your Independent and Guided Reading” (Grades 1-6, 882 KB Word)

BRENT McKEOWN: 
“Identity Crisis: Reconciling Educational Frameworks with ELA”
(Grades 10-12, separate ELAC Web page)

BRENT McKEOWN & BRAD SMILANICH:  “101 New Texts” (Grades 10-12, 66 KB Word)

RHONDA NIXON, THERESE COATES, CHARLIE STUART & TRACEE LABA:  “Differentiation and Integration Through Reader’s Workshop” (Grades 1-6, 100 KB Word)

GARRY RYAN:  “Using Your Writing Process to Get Your Students Excited About Writing” (Grades 10-12, 90 KB pdf)

FARHA SHARIFF: “The ‘Third Space’: Exploring the possibilities for contemporary postcolonial texts in the secondary English language arts classroom” (Grades 9-12, 5.9 MB ppt)

LYLE WEIS: “Prewriting Strategies and the Effective Student Writer” (Grades 1-6, 42 KB pdf)

PAM YOUNG:  “Drawn into reading and writing: Sketching as literary response” (Grades 10-12, separate ELAC Web page)

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