Assessment and Improvement of Instruction – Learner Materials and Activities

The examples of learner materials and activities for the unit lesson about numbers and their word representations were part of my artifact collection of evidence that supported my Professional Growth Plan (PGP) besides the informal and formative assessments.

Learning materials included:

1.:

A) An Identifying, Reading, and Writing Whole Numbers reference chart containing the number words for the ones place (0 to 9) with visual quantity equivalences

B) number words for the teens place (11 to 19) with visual quantity equivalences

C) number words for the tens place (10 to 90), and the numeric and word form of one hundred with visual quantity equivalences

2.  samples of a formal wedding invitation or birthday or other type of formal invitation

3.  sample of a written cheque

4.  samples of imitation currency in the form of coins and dollar bills

5.  National Geographic Kids magazines

6.  children’s Movie magazines or other special interest children’s printed media

7.  The Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Canada informational text or Canada Year by Year or similar texts

8.  Magic School Bus graphic novels  or similar

Learner activities that generated learner work products to verify student understanding about whole numbers in their numeric and word forms included:

1. Create Your Own Whole Number Words Puzzle for others to solve
2. Unscramble the Scrabbled Tiles with a game chart a learner uses to print the whole number word they unscramble from the pre-selected tiles that fit within categories of numeric numbers 0 to 10, 11 to 19, 20 to 29, 30 to 39, 40 to 49, 50 to 59, 60 to 69, 70 to 79, 80 to 89, and 90 to 100
3. Numeric and Word Form Whole Number BINGO
4. Numeric to Word Form Whole Number Word Searches in three different levels of complexity plus an opportunity for a student to develop their own Whole Number Word Search for others to solve
5. a Whole Number Numeric to Word Form Crossword puzzle plus an opportunity for a student to create their own for others to solve.

 

The following are examples of Learner Materials:

1.  a through c

2.  Formal wedding or birthday invitations or similar to show number word representations

3.  sample of how numbers and their word representations are written on cheques

4.  samples of imitation currency (coins and bills) – active exploration

5.  National Geographic Kids magazines – active exploration

6.  children’s Movie magazines – active exploration

 

7.  The Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Canada informational text or Canada Year by Year or similar texts – active exploration

 

8.  Magic School Bus graphic novels or similar – active exploration

 

 

The following are examples of Learner Activities:

1. Create Your Own Whole Number Words Puzzle for others to solve by putting the puzzle pieces together – “Number It Up” – learners cut their puzzles along the dotted lines, solve their own, then switch with peers.

2.  Unscramble the Scrabbled Tiles with a game chart a learner uses to print the whole number word they unscramble from the pre-selected tiles that fit within categories of numeric numbers 0 to 10, 11 to 19, 20 to 29, 30 to 39, 40 to 49, 50 to 59, 60 to 69, 70 to 79, 80 to 89, and 90 to 100

3.  Numeric and Word Form Whole Number BINGO

4.  Numeric to Word Form Whole Number Word Searches in three different levels of complexity plus an opportunity for a student to develop their own Whole Number Word Search for others to solve.

5.  a Whole Number Numeric to Word Form Crossword puzzle plus an opportunity for a student to create their own for others to solve.