Nancy Cooper

This workbook accompanies "The Truth About Nibbles," a book about an Aboriginal girl named Karen, her classmates, and the title character, a hamster. The book is designed to be read aloud by an adult and a child together, with simpler text in larger print for the child to read and more complex text in smaller print for the adult to read.

This guide accompanies “The Truth About Nibbles,” a book about an Aboriginal girl named Karen, her classmates, and the title character, a hamster. The book is designed to be read aloud by an adult and a child together, with simpler text in larger print for the child to read and more complex text in smaller print for the adult to read.

This document offers a means of comparing reading levels across a variety of assessment approaches. It provides a graphic representation of the Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) levels in comparison to the Essential Skills reading text levels and to the Ontario Common Curriculum Grades 1-10.

This student workbook is designed to accompany Journey of the Spirit III, an anthology of learners’ writings on healing, love, identity, culture and family.

The workbook includes questions designed to test the student’s comprehension of the material, as well as a self-assessment section to help students identify areas they need to work on.

This is a guide for teachers using Journeys of the Spirit III, an anthology in which learners from across Canada share their fears, dreams and relationships. The anthology is divided into themes of learning, healing, love, identity and culture, and life and family.

The major objective of Cooper's research study was to explore the transformative nature of culture-based literacy approaches in the Native literacy field in Ontario using Indigenous research methodologies and applying a phenomenological analysis to the findings. It has shown that culture-based approaches to Native literacy are indeed transformative, not only for learners but for tutors and practitioners as well.

This software review from CONNECT describes Teachings of the Four Elements. Teachings of the Four Elements is an introduction to science, which blends hard science facts and experiments with teachings of the Anishinabe people. It is suitable for intermediate to advanced learners.