Overview

Learn Smart: Strategies to Succeed in School and Life is the first resource created that is in complete congruence with Ontario's learning strategies courses, GLS1O and GLE1/2. The text can serve as a complete program or be used to support an existing program plan. Learn Smart includes 20 high-interest texts of graduated length and difficulty (200–450 words). Each text is accompanied by a glossary, Web links, reading strategies, and three kinds of activity blocks focusing on the application of skills in the following areas: prior knowledge activities; reading comprehension and writer's craft; literacy and numeracy; and personal management, interpersonal skills, and teamwork skills.

The Teacher's Resource provides extensive support, including how to calendar the student book, notes on using all the activities, exemplars, an answer key, multiple-choice quizzes, scaffolding line masters, extra activities, and modifiable assessment tools in Microsoft Word format on CD-ROM.

Features

• Handbook format: Allows students to reference information easily with the use of photos, visuals, graphs, charts, and maps.
• Skills Workshops: Focus on key skills across disciplines.
• Contextual learning: Develops skills in context through individual and group work.
• Scaffolding line masters: Provided for many student book activities.
• Student success: Hands-on guidance for students on applying strategies across the curriculum.

Top ∧Contents

Part 1: Learn It, Don't Sweat It

• It's Your Style
• The Manager of You Is You

Part 2: Practise Your Skills (Graduated Texts)

• Out There
• That's Entertainment
• Green Growers
• Stand Up, Speak Up
• Your Wired World

Part 3: Explore Your Opportunities

• Get the Information You Need
• Be Your Own Advocate
• Portfolios That Work

Part 4: From There to Here (Summative Activities)

Top ∧Teacher's Resource

Curriculum Correlation
Learning Strategies GLS1O

A. Introduction to the Program
B. Teaching and Assessment Strategies, Parts 1–4
C. Skills Workshops
D. Blank Graphic Organizers
E. Line Masters
F. Assessment Tools

ISBN: 978-1-55239-268-3   Publication Price: $179.95