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Finding Resources for Your (Child’s) Unique Learning Needs.
Both K-12 and post secondary education in Alberta provide students with specialized services and/or programs designed to support students with their learning needs. Parents and students can find relevant links and resources listed below. We offer specialized learning supports for students who have emotional, behavioural, cognitive, learning, speech, hearing, vision, physical or medical needs. EPSB.ca…
DIY Multi-Media Art Project
For today’s activity, I chose to share a piece of craft I created back in my high school days. I thought it would be an easy one to replicate and get creative with. While my one was a floral collage you are welcome to let this inspire any other forms and themes of art for…
Building Social Capital With Audiobooks
Introduction In a regular browse of the public library website, I came across the 7th edition of Jim Trelease’s Read Aloud Handbook about 2 years ago. Intrigued by the title, I placed a hold without reading the description. In context of a new interest in trying out audiobooks, the title “Read Aloud Handbook” gave me…
FIRST Jobs Student Internship
First Jobs is a part time technology internship program for current students and recent graduates. Application deadlines are coming up soon. Learn more here.
A Season of Flowers
by Michael Garland “Beautiful and eye-catching”- School Library Journal Rhyming couplets paired with colourful illustration should take children on a joyful journey through the seasons. Narrations of various flowers introduce the birds, bugs and animals they bring in those seasons. Publishers Weekly suggests this book for children aged 3 to 5.
Introducing Read Aloud Society
We must ensure that children’s early encounters with reading are pleasurable so they will cheerfully return to the experience, now and forever. Our ultimate goal is to create lifetime readers. Jim Trelease’s The Read-aloud Handbook Eighth Edition Edited by Cyndi Giorgis (p. vi) The Read Aloud Handbook uses statistics and stories from the USA to…
Early Childhood Vocabulary Development
It’s predicted that children who are read to at least once a day will hear 290,000 more words by age 5 than those who aren’t read to by a parent or caregiver. (Source: Ohio State University, “When Children Are Not Read to At Home: Million Word Gap”) cited by Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation Children in…
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