Check out new Indigenous teaching curriculum resources held in TWU’s Curriculum Resource Centre!

Turtle Island Voices is a series of levelled readers designed to bring awareness and understanding of Indigenous Peoples, Métis, and Inuit cultures for students in Grades 1 to 8. Each grade in the series provides traditional and modern stories featuring Indigenous Peoples, Métis, and Inuit protagonists, and informational texts on a variety of topics.

TWU Curriculum Resource Centre holds the following teaching guides:

The easy-to-navigate teacher’s guide for each grade of the Turtle Island Voices series includes detailed, guided instruction for each Student Book. Along with extension activities and reproducible masters, the resources offer background knowledge that will help teachers easily incorporate Indigenous Peoples, Métis, and Inuit perspectives into their classrooms.

Listed below are 10 student books assigned to Grade Level Four that reflect a range of Indigenous, Métis, and Inuit perspectives. The student books are arranged in the following categories: Traditional, Modern and Informational, and further identified by cultural area.

Connected by Robert Cutting
(Genre: Informational Text; Culture Area: Variety)
Book that explains how connections through family, friends, community and Mother Earth are central to many Indigenous cultures.

Deer and Courage by David Bouchard and art by Scott Page
(Genre: Traditional; Culture Area: Northwest Coast)
An important animal to the peoples of the Northwest coast of British Columbia, Deer uses her quick thinking and problem-solving skills to trick Cougar into helping her escape.

Eagles on Ice by Robyn Michaud-Turgeon and art by Mike Rooth
(Genre: Modern; Culture Area: Eastern Woodlands)
Mitch learns the importance of helping and caring for others, the importance of teamwork and being persistent in the face of adversity.

The First Corn by David Bouchard and art b Michael Lonechild
(Genre: Traditional; Culture Area: Plains)
A traditional Lakota story about how corn came to be such an important food.

Get Moving! by Courtney Currie
(Genre: Informational Text; Culture Area: Variety)
Book explains the various types of transportations methods of Indigenous Peoples, Métis, and Inuit from birchbark canoes, kayaks, York boats, travois, Red River carts, snow shoes, dogsleds and toboggans.

The Gift of the Red River Jig retold by Wilfrid Burton and art by Frank Lewis
(Genre: Traditional; Culture Area: Subarctic)
A traditional Métis story that presents one version of how the Red River jig came to be.

Kirima Okpik, Master Inventor by Robert Cutting and art by Augusto Kapronczai
(Genre: Modern – Novel; Culture Area: Arctic)
Tells the story of Kirima Okpik who dreams of being a famous inventor and experiments in her workshop designing inventions after inventions in Iqaluit.

Making Music by Emile Corbiere
(Genre: Informational Text; Culture Area: Variety)
Book explains the various types of music and musical instruments created by Indigenous Peoples, Métis, and Inuit such as katajjaq (throat singing) in Inuit communities.

The Mystery of the Mist by Robert Cutting and art by Andy Belanger
(Genre: Modern; Culture Area: Plains)
Despite warnings from Red Deer, Charlie Brass demonstrates his bravery by forging ahead to satisfy his curiosity, and save the day.

Sarah and the Bully by Emilie Corbiere and art by Gary Gretsky
(Genre: Modern; Culture Area: Plateau)
Story tells how Sarah learns a valuable lesson about bullying.

 

The Curriculum Resource Centre is a specialized education resource library serves Trinity’s School of Education and local educators, and it provides a variety of resources for curriculum planning, research and teaching (including curriculum guides), teacher’s resources, and K-12 student resources.

Click on the link for more information. Learn how to place a Hold though our Holds Pickup.

 

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