Diversity

Books & Accompanying Learning Resources

Kid is a Kid is a Kid

A group of kids share the silly questions they always hear, as well as the questions they would rather be asked about themselves.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Comprehension Strategies, Key Ideas & Details, Integrated Learning, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Text Forms & Genres, Developing & Creating Texts

Topics: Diversity

Audience: ages 3 to 6 / grades P to 1

I Have the Right to Culture

The third book in the award-winning I Have the Right series explores a child’s right to culture, including music, art, dance and much more.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Comprehension Strategies, Vocabulary Acquisition, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Integrated Learning, Key Ideas & Details, Text Forms & Genres

Topics: Diversity, Human Rights & Activism

Audience: ages 3 to 6 / grades K to 1

Grandpa’s Girls

There is a wonderful blend of fun and family history in this story of a young girl's visit to a much-loved grandparent.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Integrated Learning, Key Ideas & Details, Comprehension Strategies, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Oral Language, Further Research

Topics: Diversity, Indigenous Voices

Audience: ages 4 to 7 / grades P to 2

Africville

A powerful reimagination of what it was like to live in Africville in the 1960s through the eyes of a young girl.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Comprehension Strategies, Developing & Creating Texts, Key Ideas & Details, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Integrated Learning, Oral Language, Just for Fun!

Topics: Black Voices, Diversity

Audience: ages 4 to 7 / Grades K to 2

As Long as the Rivers Flow

The story of Larry Loyie's last summer before entering residential school.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Comprehension Strategies, Vocabulary Acquisition, Integrated Learning, Developing & Creating Texts, Further Research

Topics: Diversity, Indigenous Voices

Audience: ages 7 to 11 / grades 2 to 6