Powwow Counting in Cree
by Penny M Thomas & Melinda Josie
Description:
In this simple counting book, young readers and listeners learn how to count to ten in Cree. First each number is introduced and then the number is used in a sentence to describe a Powwow. The E book version even includes narration in browser from the library and the book concludes with a summary and pronunciations of all of the numbers. Penny M. Thomas is of Cree-Ojibway descent and Melinda Josie is a Toronto-based artist and illustrator.
Resource format: Picturebook
Age recommendation: Pre-K to Grade 1
Keywords: counting, Cree, Powwow, e-book, Cree language
Year of publication: 2013
Publisher information: Highwater Press
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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