Dragonfly Kites
by Tomson Highway & Julie Flett
Description:
This is a beautifully illustrated story of two brothers who live in Northern Manitoba. These boys have no toys, but they play and thrive in nature, including with many wild animals.
Resource format: Picturebook
Age recommendation: Pre-K - Grade 3
Keywords: Manitoba, brothers, nature, Plains Cree Language, kinship, land based learning
Year of publication: 2016
Publisher information: Fifth House
Teaching and Learning Ideas
Our team collaborated with new teachers, alumni of the Werklund School of Education’s Bachelor of Education program, to create teaching and learning plans for texts in this website. With audiences ranging from Pre-Kindergarten to Post-Secondary, lesson plans across this resource address a wide range of school subject areas, inclusive approaches, and Indigenous education topics, such as the revitalization of Indigenous languages. As this website was designed with Undergraduate Programs in Education instructors, as well as teachers in mind, connections to UPE courses have been flagged on each lesson plan. These lessons are intended as a starting place for educators, to help you envision ways in which you might bring Indigenous literatures, as well as ways of knowing, being, and doing, into your teaching contexts. Please adapt, use, and share these lessons in ways that are generative for your teaching practice. We offer our sincere thanks to the dozens of new teachers who gifted us with these creative ideas!
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