We All Count
by Julie Flett
Description:
This picturebook counts various Indigenous and non-Indigenous items in Cree and includes a Cree pronunciation guide at the beginning. Meant to explore connections between language, nature, and culture. Although cursory, cultural and societal roles are accurately portrayed.
Resource format: Picturebook
Age recommendation: Pre-K to Kindergarten
Keywords: Cree language, counting, numbers, nature, culture, kinship
Year of publication: 2014
Publisher information: Native Northwest
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!
We All Count Special Education Unit Plan
We All Count Grades PreK-2 Lesson