Welcome to Fall!

Personally, this is my favourite time of year - cooler days and the natural beauty of the leaves changing colour. You may also be thinking of starting assessments and, as always, remember to keep it simple both for your students and yourself. We all regularly use many real-world reading and writing tasks with our classes, but we just have to remember to make them skill-using activities with holistic feedback and count them as artefacts for our students’ portfolios. Keep track of everything in the assessment logs. (this is copied directly from last October’s post because I thought it was important).

Haleema and I will be holding a PBLA review on October 15th. Details to follow.

Thanks to Valerie for sharing her Fall Reading Assessment. Thank you to everyone who shared resources for National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. I found it quite moving to see our students dressed in Orange.

Here is a blog that Kate shared: https://youglish.com/ This is helpful for pronunciation.

You can also check out https://www.learningchocolate.com/ This is a great resource for lower level students.

See Valerie's Fall Fun Assessment navigation website (CLB 3/4) here. Answers here.

Also, a friendly reminder to register for TESL Conference if you haven’t done so already.

Here are some useful links to already made assessments:

Real World Task Bank

Curriculum Real-World Tasks CLB 1-8 from Tutela

Are there other ones to share??

Your PBLA team Haleema and Marina