Heads up teachers! Get Canada Reads 2021 in your classroom using this resource toolkit
Calling all Canadian secondary school teachers! Do you love Canada Reads and wish to share that literary passion with students?
You can now find Canada Reads content on Curio.ca, CBC's streaming service designed with Canada's educational community in mind.
The Canada Reads collection on Curio.ca includes teacher guides for all five of this year's champions, videos featuring this year's participants, and discussion questions and suggested activities for how to activate Canada Reads in any secondary school classroom.
All of the Canada Reads 2021 content is accessible to Curio.ca subscribers and non-subscribers alike. You can check out the guide at curio.ca/canadareads.
Curio.ca launched in 2013 to meet the digital learning needs of school boards, government ministries, universities, colleges and cégeps and public libraries across the country. It features award-winning content from CBC, spanning from radio and television documentaries to news, drama, and children's programming.
This year's Canada Reads panellists and authors are:
- Rosey Edeh champions The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk
- Scott Helman champions Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee
- Devery Jacobs champions Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
- Paul Sun-Hyung Lee champions Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
- Roger Mooking champions Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi
Canada Reads will take place March 8-11. The debates will be hosted by Ali Hassan and will be broadcast on CBC Radio One, CBC TV, CBC Gem and on CBC Books.
