Vasyl Stus – A Life Remembered

A Web site that includes information about the poet’s life (including a timeline) and works. Contains a site map, interviews, pictures and excerpts from Myrna Kostash’s book “Inside the Copper Mountain”. The Web site provides information on many aspects of Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus’ life, influence, and works. It can be used to perform a…

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Ukrainian Music Videos Guide

Unit of instruction for Ukrainian language arts which uses Ukrainian music videos as a central resource. Students develop their oral language, listening, reading and writing skills by sharing with other students their favourite Ukrainian music videos and sharing their opinions of other Ukrainian music videos. The unit includes step by step instruction for how do…

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Ukrainian Language Arts A Teachers Resource of Templates and Blackline Masters

Series of printable materials which include charts, rubrics, graphic organizers, sample evaluations and self-evaluations to help teachers assess student performance, chart progress, and provide students with tools to help them take charge of their learning. Download Templates and Blackline Masters

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Transliteration Tables – International Phonetic Alphabet

Because there is no one standard system of Ukrainian to English transliteration in the world, we present 3 transliteration tables. 1. Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada This single page transliteration table details rules adopted by Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada with some explanations and exceptions to the rules. 2. System established by the Library of Congress 3. System based…

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Strategy Object 5 Shared Reading

This strategy object is part of the Learning Strategies Launch Centre and introduces Learning Logs. This strategy object uses a Library setting, and allows the user to accompany Takuya on a tour of the Library, seeing various Shared Reading examples in practice. The user is then given the opportunity to practice shared reading themselves, using…

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Poetry

An “Internet library” web site containing over 11,00 pages of poems by 286 Ukrainian poets. The site is available in Ukrainian, English, French, German and Spanish. Includes Ukrainian translations of foreign poetry, and some Ukrainian folk and contemporary song lyrics. According to the authors, around 50 readers visit the site daily. See the website

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Language Learning Styles and Strategies An Overview

In “Language Learning Styles and Strategies” the author synthesizes research from various parts of the world on two key variables affecting language learning: styles, i.e., the general approaches to learning a language; and strategies, the specific behaviors or thoughts learners use to enhance their language learning. These factors influence the student’s ability to learn in…

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BRAMA – Gateway Ukraine

A large English-Ukrainian web site with information on Ukrainian: music, literature, language, religion, business, news, travel, Diaspora, history with maps, photos, discussion forums, a calendar of events, and more. The site is based in the Diaspora but includes information about Ukraine as well as Ukrainian communities outside of Ukraine. See brama.com

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A Semester in Lviv

This resource provides summary information about a new publication called “Semestr u Lvovi”, a travel diary of a Canadian university student who studies a semester in Ukraine. It has a glossary, information about the author, designer, and information on why the author wrote the book. See the website

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