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
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
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
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.
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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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.
- 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.
- Differentiated approach
- Action-oriented tasks
- Function-driven
- Authentic oral communication
- Culture connections
- Reflection, assessment and goal setting
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 FRENCH
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
- comprehensive teaching notes plus quiz bank
- projectable Student Text pages
- web links
- interactive activities/content for classroom instruction
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
