Grade 9 - Ontario Language - FULL YEAR BUNDLE - NEW 2023 Curriculum

Grade 9 - Ontario Language - FULL YEAR BUNDLE - NEW 2023 Curriculum - Teaching made easy! This NO PREP bundle includes everything you need to teach the NEW 2023 Grade 9 Language Curriculum.

Foundations of Language Strand

There are 572 activity sheets and 30 weeks of activities that cover the curriculum strategically, allowing teachers to use spiral teaching to ensure they're covering everything across the year.

Some of the concepts covered:

• Prefixes: over-, under-, counter-, multi-, micro-, post-, pro-, de-, pseudo-, semi-, mono-, geo-, hydro-, thermo-, retro- and more
• Suffixes: -ity, -ence, -ance, -ive, -ative, -ary, -ory, -ify, -ism, -ist, -ical, -ology, -graphy, -phobia, -ate and more
• Spelling & Letter Patterns: tion, sion, cian, gue, que, ph, sch, ps, augh, tch, rh, gn, mb, wr, ough and more
• Sentence work: Identifying fragments, building complex sentences, avoiding run-ons, and crafting compound-complex sentences for clarity
• Grammar foundations: Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs and their roles
• Verbs: "To be," linking, and perfect tenses; past, present, and future; gerunds and infinitives
• Pronouns in depth: Types, roles, and case usage
• Voice in writing: Active versus passive, and choosing effectively
• Phrase building: Adverbial and prepositional phrases for detail
• Punctuation: Dialogue capitalization and punctuation, plus colons, semicolons, and ellipses for effect
• Vocabulary & morphology: Using a thesaurus for word choice; identifying prefixes, suffixes, and roots
• Reading & fluency: Comprehension strategies (Reader's Theatre), expressive reading, tone, and pacing
• Genre-specific writing: Tailoring style for different writing forms
• Oral communication: Listening Relay, Debate Club, Role Playing Scenarios, Discussion Circle, Guest Speaker Analysis, Impromptu Speeches, and more
• Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
• Answer pages for all activities

Composition (Writing): Expressing Ideas and Creating Texts Strand

There are 332 activity sheets aligned to cover all expectations in the NEW Ontario 2023 Language Curriculum. Included are 10 blocks of content, each covering a different text form, with the overall and specific expectations met inside every block.

Some of the concepts covered:

• Text forms & purpose: When to use narratives, letters/emails, persuasive pieces, reports, comic strips, and more
• Voice: Personal voice in writing, voice in music, and formal vs. informal letter writing
• Paragraph & essay writing: The perfect paragraph (hook, supporting details, conclusion), thesis statements, and the 5-paragraph essay
• Narrative writing: Beginning/middle/end structure, analyzing quality stories to build success criteria, and using dialogue and quotations (plus a Story Swap Revision activity)
• Persuasive writing: Understanding persuasion and bias, a "Being Persuasive" debate, and a new-invention advertising assignment
• Expository writing: Reports, lists, problem/solution, compare/contrast, and cause/effect — including a How-To guide and synthesizing multiple reports
• Research skills: Finding trustworthy sources, using keywords, an Online Treasure Hunt, and citing sources with a bibliography
• Poetry: Haiku, limerick, rhyming, and acrostic poems, plus a poetry children's book assignment
• Graphic texts: Comic strips with onomatopoeia and an online comic strip assignment
• Cross-curricular biographies: Marie Curie, John A. Macdonald, and Tecumseh, with a partner biography/bibliography assignment
• Planning experiment: Writing with planning time vs. without
• Cursive writing package/booklet
• Answer pages for all activities

Reading Comprehension Strand

This resource contains 437 pages that align to cover all the expectations in the Grade 9, 2023 Ontario Language Curriculum – Comprehension Strand.

Some of the concepts covered:

• How techniques like word choice, fonts, and layouts affect texts
• What is reading comprehension? What strategies work for me?
• Comprehension Practice – Refocusing / Re-engaging
• Indigenous Storywork – 7 Principles: respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, synergy
• Bias in letter writing, book reviews, and in persuasive writing
• Narratives – finding examples of literary devices: irony, allusion, and satire
• Analyzing first-person, second-person, and third-person narratives
• Drama stories – round and flat characters
• Sequencing a narrative with multiple plots – rearranging plot events
• Narrative structure – exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
• Story structures: linear, cyclical, and iterative stories
• Story – Character Identification And Comparison
• Characterization – character traits, decision making, and evolution of characters
• Determining the causes and effects in narratives
• Implicit versus explicit evidence in persuasive texts
• Expository texts – informational reports and how-to-guides
• Propaganda – Critical Analysis
• Synthesizing multiple reports and essays
• Report – Justice, Equity And Fairness
• Identity, Social Responsibility And Efficacy
• Scanning texts looking for specific information for research
• Analyzing a speech – Stereotypes in Indigenous Culture
• Five paragraph essays – text patterns and features
• Problem and solution letters
• Identifying thesis statements found in reports and essays
• Identifying literary devices in poetry – irony, hyperbole, simile, metaphor, allusion, and satire
• Analyzing poems – haiku, limerick, acrostic, cinquain, and rhyming poetry
• Studying poetry written by Indigenous authors
• Activity – detecting bias in online reviews
• Book review – choose favourite author and compare the texts they have written
• Graphic texts – timelines, memes, comics, infographics, maps
• Biographies – Samuel de Champlain, Tom Longboat, Alexander Graham Bell, Joan Chalmers, Norval Morrisseau
• Activity: analyzing multimedia features (bold fonts, visuals, layout, music, colours, etc.)
• Metacognitive strategies: reading tracking charts and reading goals
• Answer pages for all activities

BOTH GOOGLE SLIDES AND PDF VERSIONS INCLUDED!

This is a comprehensive bundle that will save you hours of planning! It has everything you need to feel confident that you are covering the NEW Ontario Language curriculum.