Resources for the De-streamed Ontario Grade 9

Explore our Pearson Canada's classroom-ready resources for students and teachers.

Our de-streamed Grade 9 resources are:

designed for all students with a wide range of skills
differentiated instruction ideas in the teacher guides
available in both print and digital options

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Literacy Success Assessment

Insights into Students' Comprehension and Communication

Literacy Success Assessment is a differentiated tool that provides an opportunity for students in Grades 7 to 10 to read texts based on their interests and at their reading levels. The kit combines at-grade-level reading passages for students in Grades 7 to 10 who are reading at grade levels that span from Grade 1 to Grade 10. With 24 reading passages at 20 different levels of readability, all students can demonstrate their reading and writing skills.

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Components

The Literacy Success Assessment kit contains the following components:

24 Student Cards
- 2 Student Cards for Grades 1-6 x 5 copies each = 60
- 4 Student Cards for Grades 7-8 x 10 copies each = 80
- 2 Student Cards for Grades 9-10 x 10 copies each = 40

1 Teacher's Guide (print)
Sturdy, spacious box to contain all of the above items
Companion Website

Read 180

Grades 3-12

Read 180 is a comprehensive literacy approach grounded in the science of reading. With flexible and adaptive instructional resources, Read 180 supports students on their journey from developing foundational literacy skills to confidently comprehending grade-level texts.

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Mathology Practice Workbook

The Mathology Practice Workbooks:

Boost math confidence through extra practice.
Are convenient! No more spending time looking for appropriate, curriculum-focused worksheets on-line.
Are cost-effective! Save time on photocopying.
Provide a strong home-school connection.
Support any math resource.

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Mathology.ca Grade 9

The Mathology 9 mathematics classrooms are spaces that honour our teachers’ mission to

provide responsive learning opportunities for all students
celebrate diversity, prior learning, experiences, and strengths and the belief that all students can be successful in mathematics
enable students to see themselves as mathematical thinkers and integrate their math learning with the world beyond the classroom
place students’ well-being and academic success at the centre of your planning, teaching, and assessment practice

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Mathology Math Mats Grades 5-8

Mathology Math Mat Booklets Support:

Diversity in Math Understanding: students share their thinking in a way that makes sense for them, using the tools that support their thinking.
Student Engagement: encourage student choice and risk-taking to get started with confidence.
Saving Teacher Planning Time: no need to photocopy, hand out line masters, prepare tools because everything you need in one place.
Classroom Management: support student autonomy.

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Learning Progression 4-9

The Pearson Canada Learning Progression Grades K-3 and now 4-9 is a research-based framework integrating essential mathematics concepts, ideas, skills and procedures with the ways in which students develop and expand their mathematical understanding over time. It is intended primarily for teachers, but it is also an important resource for curriculum consultants, learning coaches, administrators, teacher educators, researchers, and parents, as essential stakeholders in promoting students’ mathematical success.

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Math 180 Grades 3-12

Math 180 is an intervention program that:

Supports students in Grades 3 and above who struggle with mathematics.
Focuses on building foundational math skills, addressing learning gaps, and preparing students for more complex math and algebraic thinking.
Incorporates adaptive technology, personalized learning pathways, and data-driven assessments to accelerate students’ progress and improve their math proficiency.

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Points de Connexion

Points de Connexion was initially designed for all Grade 9 students as it appeals to students with a wide range of skills. It allows teachers to readily offer differentiated choices to address the diversity in their classes.

Also available in eText

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Embedded Differentiation

Multiple paths to facilitate student success are woven into every lesson.
Activity choices are designed to provide students with more support, more challenge, or more autonomy.
Options for teachers to reorganize lessons or adjust/extend/enrich activities to meet student needs.
Formative, summative, and self-assessments are used to guide instructional paths.
Differentiation suggestions for student support or extra challenge are provided in every lesson.

Guiding Principles

Language Development

Points de connexion is mapped to the 2014 Ontario curriculum as well as the Common European Framework of Reference.

Language patterns are explored in context.
Students engage with a variety of text types in various formats, including print, audio, digital.
Text types reflect the digital world students live in -- emails, online forums, social media, online petitions, text messages, etc.

Making Connections: Issues in Canadian Geography, 3rd Edition

Making Connections 3rd Edition was re-conceptualized for all Grade 9 students in mind, focusing on:

Big ideas and issues
Inquiry Learning Process
Geographic thinking concepts
Literacy and numeracy skills
Differentiated Instruction

Also available in eText

Also available in FRENCH

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Instructional Design

Instructional design elements features to support:

inquiry-based learning process
geographic thinking concepts (interrelationships, spatial significance, patterns and trends, geographic perspective)
critical and creative thinking skills
skill development through a Skills ToolKit appendix, Skills Focus feature, and mapping review skills in eguide
understanding points of view, issues analysis, and case study investigations
application activities scaffold understanding of key course concepts and Big Ideas
end of chapter consolidation and performance tasks by strand

Interactive Teacher eGuide

To Read Stuff You Have to Know Stuff: Helping Students Build and Use Prior Knowledge

In the age of click-and-go reading, why do students need to know information when they can just look things up?

Bestselling author Kelly Gallagher argues that to think critically, it’s imperative that we teach kids stuff. Lots of it. Why? Because students who know more are able to read more, and read better.

In To Read Stuff You Have to Know Stuff, Kelly draws from his own teaching practice to share the importance of building students’ prior knowledge at four levels: words, sentences, articles and books.

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When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do

This new edition of When Kids Can’t Read—What Teachers Can Do, like the original edition, is based on my bedrock belief that reading, though not an innate ability for anyone, is a critical skill for all.

This new and updated second edition recognizes that helping kids who struggle with reading means knowing how to help kids with:

Comprehension: literal and inferential meaning
Word Work: phonics, fluency, spelling, and vocabulary
Engagement: required and independent reading, relevance, and motivation

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Neurodiversity Affirming Schools:Transforming Practices So All Students Feel Accepted and Supported

This accessible book is designed to help you take action. By the end of each chapter, you'll understand how the key takeaways apply to your particular situation and how you can meet neurodivergent students' needs in ways appropriate to their unique cognition. Written by two experts on neurodiversity education, this book teaches you how to:

Use established practices like strengths-based instruction in neurodiversity-affirming ways
Prevent neurodivergent students from checking out and becoming burnt out
Identify the unique ways that neurodivergent children express their needs and difficulties
Emphasize and model emotional regulation skills at the classroom level
Create more effective, strengths-based IEPs and 504 Plans

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50 Strategies

The 50 Strategies series provides high quality strategies to help teachers quickly find new, exciting ideas for their classrooms.

Each book provides 50 impactful classroom strategies, each featuring differentiation suggestions for grades ranging K-12.
Teachers looking for fresh, easy-to-implement ideas will be able to scan and select from a wide range of strategies.
Each book has custom features designed to support, inspire, and deepen teaching.

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Motivated

In her groundbreaking book, Motivated, author Ilana Seidel Horn outlines the features of a motivational classroom. Based on her research, Horn has found that a motivational classroom attends to the following five features:

students’ sense of belongingness
the meaningfulness of learning
students’ competence
structures for accountability
students’ autonomy

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Invigorating High School Math

High school math is failing many students. Out-of-date and stale curricula are not only dull, but perpetuate inequity by limiting opportunities and failing to prepare a majority of students for life in the 21st century.

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Resources for the De-streamed Ontario Grade 9

Explore our Pearson Canada's classroom-ready resources for students and teachers.

View Price Lists & Order Forms

Literacy Success Assessment

Insights into Students' Comprehension and Communication

Read 180

Grades 3-12

Mathology Practice Workbook

Mathology.ca Grade 9

Mathology Math Mats Grades 5-8

Learning Progression 4-9

Math 180 Grades 3-12

Points de Connexion

Making Connections: Issues in Canadian Geography, 3rd Edition

To Read Stuff You Have to Know Stuff: Helping Students Build and Use Prior Knowledge

When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do

Neurodiversity Affirming Schools:Transforming Practices So All Students Feel Accepted and Supported

50 Strategies

Motivated

Invigorating High School Math

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