Bud’mo 20

Bud’mo 20 is part of the Bud’mo series. Along with Bud’mo 10 and Bud’mo 30, Bud’mo 20 targets Ukrainian language development for 14-17 year olds. The three units were developed to meet the requirements of  the Alberta Ukrainian Language Arts Program of Studies 10, 20, 30. Each unit includes three resources: Teacher’s Unit Planning Materials,…

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ULEC Newsletter

ULEC develops, publishes, and distributes Ukrainian language resources in print and online that support teachers and deliver effective, world-class language education to students from pre-school. Our mandate is the development of Ukrainian language education in Canada and abroad and involves: producing learning resources of Ukrainian language at both the secondary and post-secondary levels, overseeing the…

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Nova 5 Oral Literature

Developing literacy skills (reading and writing) is a major goal of the Nova series. Nova 5: Oral Literature is part of the collection of  reading resources for grade 5 students in the Ukrainian bilingual and immersion programs. These stories could be read aloud to or by students. The stories align well with the general interests…

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Bud’mo 10

The Bud’mo series targets Ukrainian language development at the high school level and consists of three units: Bud’mo 10, Bud’mo 20, Bud’mo 30. The three units were developed to meet the requirements of the Alberta Ukrainian Language Arts Program of Studies 10, 20, 30. Each unit includes three resources: Teacher’s Unit Planning Materials, Student Learning…

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Google Tour Builder

Tour Builder is an interactive storytelling tool that connects people to places using Google Maps and multimedia content. It’s easy to integrate text, photos, and videos onto Google Maps to create an immersive storytelling or journey experience. Ideas for lesson design: http://mrbradfordonline.com/gtb/ Use Tourbuilder to create student tasks or activities to be completed for assessment…

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See, HEAR and Speak Ukrainian: Read-aloud engagement for the junior level using NOVA 5 & 6

Introduction – Modeling fluent reading Children begin developing their reading skills as soon as parents begin reading aloud to them.  With the assistance of voice, intonation, gestures, visuals and controlled speed parents, teachers or capable peers convey meaning through written texts and help learners understand more than they can read on their own. In other…

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iSLCOLLECTIVE

The Internet Second Language Collective is an international community of language teachers sharing self-made language teaching materials on a free to use platform.  The printable worksheets (doc/docx) and powerpoints (ppt, pptx) created are shareable, as are teaching tips and ideas. The newest addition is the iSLCollective interactive video quiz maker and library. Worksheets and video…

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TOONTASTIC

Toontastic 3D is a storytelling app that’s inspired by puppetry, theatre, and animation. It employs a “Story Arc” with five sequential scenes to guide story structure (setup, conflict, challenge, climax and resolution). Learners move characters around each scene as they record narration and dialogue. Toontastic 3D can be an invaluable tool for building writing skills…

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POWTOON

PowToon is web-based animation software that allows users to quickly and easily create animated presentations by manipulating pre-created objects, imported images, provided music and user created voice-overs. To get started all a user needs is to sign up with their Google account and they are good to go. If you don’t want to start from…

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