Language Arts

Welcome! The educational resources you find here are for Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators teaching students and learners of all ages. These lessons focus on language arts.

A professional learning resource developed for teachers by teachers in Alberta

The Learning Circle is a resource elementary-level learning exercises about First Nations knowledge and culture. You will find lesson plans focused on Indigenous storytelling, the use of colours, and seasons.

In this lesson, students examine the poetry of Amanda Gorman, who was chosen to read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Please scroll down the page to "All My Relations: Celebrating Canada's Indigenous Peoples," a teaching guide with music, poetry, and dance based lesson plans.

You'll find lots of ideas for student projects here. Each printable ties in with a book by Nomad Press, but it's not necessary to have or read the book in order to do the activities with your class.

This site provides activities that help students develop their sentence construction and grammar skills and are designed as supplemental writing exercises that students complete over short, 10 to 15 minute sessions at the beginning or end of a class period. Quill offers prompts and exercises and delivers instant feedback to help students write, revise, and revise again until they are able to produce succinct, powerful sentences.

SchoolNet News Network has compiled an extensive collection of lesson plans for Language Arts to help you incorporate SNN and other media in your classes.

This unit for Grade 10 English Language Arts consists of a number of lessons, activities, and assessment suggestions to help students find their voice.

This site streams videos featuring celebrated actors and authors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.

The UFLI Foundations Toolbox contains all the lesson resources to accompany the lesson plans provided in the UFLI Foundations manual. (The manual is available from your ATA Library)