Literacy
We Remember the Black Battalion - Literacy Lessons
This is a free, week long, comprehensive literacy unit with a daily injection of Science of Reading activities. Your students will receive daily phonological awareness warm-ups, along with other skills needed to develop their language comprehension and word recognition skills. Activities such as these will help your students become more strategic and automatic skilled readers. In addition, it will save you HOURS and HOURS of planning time.
(Grades 1-3)
Writing Prompts - Worksheet
These prompts help students reflect on key themes like courage, gratitude, and friendship, making connections to their own lives.
Sequencing & Connecting Words Writing
After reading We Remember the Black Battalion, discuss with the students the various labor roles that members of the Black Battalion performed during WWI.
(Grades 1-3)
Coding
This is a comprehensive cross-curricular unit for Grades 1-3 using Serena Virk’s We Remember The Black Battalion picture book. Students will have the opportunity to practise their coding skills, and develop their reading comprehension and oral language skills while learning about the importance of the No. 2 Black Construction Battalion during WWI.
(Grades 1-3)