By using a variety of print, non-print, digital, and human resources, teachers can help students learn and achieve the objectives for English language arts.

In this unit, I plan to help students to achieve the objectives and optimize their learning by:

__ using the English language arts bibliography and annual updates to find resources and ideas for instruction

__ collaborating with others, including teacher-librarians, to plan opportunities for students to use a variety of resources

__ developing a unit that uses a variety of resources to address the range of student needs

__ developing a classroom environment that encourages and fosters the use of a range of oral, print, and other media texts

__ planning an integrated unit of study that includes a range of texts - print (prose fiction and nonfiction, poetry, plays), oral, and other media texts

__ helping students use the learning resource centre as an extension of the classroom

__ helping students increase their abilities, interests, and confidence in listening to, reading, and viewing a range of oral, print, and other media texts

__ helping students focus their information needs or questions to be answered

__ helping students determine the range of possible resources (such as videos, the Internet, encyclopedia, people) that might be useful

__ helping students develop skills and strategies to evaluate resources critically

__ helping students develop information retrieval and extraction skills and strategies

__ helping students synthesize and organize information from multiple sources

__ helping students prepare and present what they have learned

__ helping students develop an inquiring mind and a repertoire of inquiry strategies

__ helping students explore and develop a range of study skills including summarizing key ideas, making notes, keeping observational records, making learning logs, and reviewing what has been learned.