Learning Strategy Launch Centre

The Learning Strategies Launch Centre is a virtual homepage for our collection of Learning Strategy learning objects! Learning strategies are tools that you can use to make learning easier. Here you can find a variety of strategies to help you learn in the classroom including strategies for: – General Learning – Language Use – Language…

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Learning Strategies Object 2 Lowering Your Level of Anxiety

This strategy object is part of the Learning Strategies Launch Centre and introduces 5 language learning strategies through a playful and engaging exercise. The scenario takes place in a school and examines three learning situations that may cause stress and anxiety for some students. A fire chief (Dalmatian) guides the user through this object and…

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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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Learning Strategies Object 4 Using a Learning Log

This strategy object is part of the Learning Strategies Launch Centre and introduces Learning Logs. This strategy object uses a Classroom setting where a student shows a presentation of various types of learning logs, while highlighting different styles and approaches of the various Learning Logs. At the end of the Learning Object, students can select…

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