CBVRCE Literacy

Effective Literacy Strategies and Practices from Our Classrooms

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Elementary (P-5)

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(9-12)

EAL (NEW)

New Curriculum Resources

Textes non fiction 4-6.pdf

Nonfiction Texts for French Immersion and Intensive French

This collection of non-fiction texts facilitates reading and writing for students in French immersion and intensive French from grades 4-6.

Reading and Writing in the Content Areas Website

In middle and high schools, students spend most of their time in content-area classes like social studies, science, and mathematics, where they rely on information texts to support their understanding of new course concepts.

This Department of Education website includes examples of evidence-based strategies designed specifically to be used in content area courses. Currently, this site includes strategies to support social studies. Other content areas will be added in the future.

If you are located in the CBVRCE and are looking to incorporate some of these strategies in your courses, and would like some assistance, please reach out to the literacy coach assigned to your middle or high school.

Benchmark Decodable texts

Benchmark decodable texts have been provided to elementary schools to support literacy learning in grades P, 1, and 1/2 classrooms.

As part of early literacy classroom instruction, decodable texts support the following:

• Tier 1 instruction

• build independence in decoding and automaticity in word reading.

• specific instructional purposes, typically to practice phonics and phonological skills.

• align with the phoneme-grapheme correspondences that have been explicitly taught

• complement, not replace the explicit, systematic teaching of phoneme-grapheme correspondences.

• support student learning across tiers of instruction (i.e. whole class, small group, and individualized)

• align with the student's age and lived experiences. The use of decodable texts written for younger audiences should be limited to this age group

Environment Collection 4 to 6 (English).pdf

Grades 4-6 Science

Environmental Education Resources

This collection of books is provided by the DOEECD and aligns with the grades 4-6 science curriculum. This environmental education collection includes recent resources to support students as they...

learn to appreciate nature.
make observations.
ask questions about the environment.
take action to care for the world around them.

Each school is being provided with a collection to support both English and French programs. In addition, all of these titles have been added to the Nova Scotia Book Bureau's Authorized Learning Resources

Grade 5 and 6 Resource: The Honour Song

From the DOEECD: This book describes the emotional and moving journey of The Honour Song from the Ancestors to George Paul with the message that it be shared with the Mi’kmaw people. Each step of that journey is beautifully captured by Mi’kmaw illustrator Loretta Gould.

The Honour Song carries with it messages of respect for being L’nu, the importance of helping each other, and gratitude to the Ancestors and Creator. It is sung widely through Mi’kma’ki at ceremony, events, and other gatherings.

Grade 5/6 teachers in the English and French programs will receive one copy of this text in their respective language of instruction.

African Nova Scotian Resources for English 12 and English 12: African Heritage

New ENG 12 African Nova Scotian Resources

These resources from the EECD are for use in ENG 12 classrooms “to support students in understanding and celebrating the rich cultural history of African Nova Scotians and other members of the diaspora.”

Link: NEW ENG 12 ANS Resources (2023)

Gr. 5 / 6 Support Document

Gr. 7 Support Document

William Hall: Heritage Day Edition Profile

In honour of Nova Scotia Heritage Day, 2024, the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development is pleased to provide the biographical profile “William Hall: Nova Scotia Heritage Day Edition”. William Hall was a trailblazer. 2024 marks the 165th anniversary of Hall being awarded the Victoria Cross, the military’s highest decoration for valour. It is awarded only to those who have shown extreme bravery in battle. Hall was the first Black person and the first Nova Scotian to be awarded the Victoria Cross. His story is an essential part of the proud legacy of military service shared by many Nova Scotians.

The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development has also provided two support documents for grade 5 / 6 and grade 7. These documents include access codes to other profiles found on provincial e-learning sites. These documents are linked on the left, just below the image of the profile.