What's My Superpower?
by Aviaq Johnston & Tim Mack
Description:
This adorable book is perfect for teaching about talents and what makes everyone special! Set in northern Canada, this beautiful Picturebook features a little girl, Nalvana, who goes around her town exclaiming the superpowers of all the children she meets, until she finally finds out her superpower is making others feel good. This book also has a pronunciation guide for the Inuktitut words and features some cultural hallmarks of the Inuit. Aviaq Johnston is Inuk.
Resource format: Picturebook
Age recommendation: Kindergarten - Grade 4
Keywords: talents, unique, pronunciation, Inuktitut, Inuit culture, Inuktitut language, Inuit
Year of publication: 2017
Publisher information: Inhabit Media
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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