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Sheets

Same lesson. A sheet for every student.

Plan the lesson once. Pick one Ontario expectation and Sideroad makes the class sheet, the version each student needs, and one answer key.

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A fan of printed sheets: one class sheet, several student sheets with coloured tabs, and an answer key.

Who it is for

Classroom teachers

One lesson, and the version each student needs, without making each by hand.

Learning Support Teachers

Sheets that follow the accommodations and the working grade in the IEP you wrote with the classroom teacher.

Teachers with no one else in the room

Every sheet is built so a student can start it alone.

Instead of several versions made by hand

Same lesson. A sheet for every student.

Not three generic levels. Each sheet is made for one student: the class expectation with the supports that student uses, or the matching expectation at a working grade.

Below, one Grade 4 expectation: the class sheet, a sheet with larger print and chunking, a sheet at Grade 2, and one key for all three.

Instead of searching another grade's curriculum

The working-grade expectation is found for you

Choose the class expectation and a student’s working grade. Sideroad follows the curriculum’s same-skill links to that grade and prints that grade’s code on the sheet.

Where no checked link exists, it says so and asks you to confirm that the match fits.

Instead of remembering who needs what, every evening

Set each student up once, from dropdowns and tick boxes

Each student has a profile: a code or a nickname, a program, and the accommodations to tick. Where there is an IEP, tick what it says.

Sideroad suggests the nickname and a symbol to go with it, and only you know which student it is. A sheet left on a desk or at the photocopier tells nobody whose it is.

You set it once. Every set you make after that follows those choices.

One answer key, worked out by code

Every version sits side by side on one page, each column headed by its own expectation code.

Pictures and answers come from the same code, so the question, the picture and the key always agree.

Instead of starting over when one sheet is not right

Change one sheet, or one question, not the whole set

Make a sheet, or a single question, easier, harder or more visual, or ask for fresh questions. Easier changes the mathematics, not only the wording, and the key follows.

The picture shows one sheet as first made, and the same sheet after Easier.

How a sheet is built

A sheet a student can start without waiting for you

Every sheet follows the four parts of explicit instruction, in the same order, so the page itself does some of the teaching.

  1. Explanation. A short explanation, with a picture where it helps.
  2. Worked example. One question already answered, step by step.
  3. Guided practice. Questions labelled A, B and C, done with the teacher.
  4. Independent practice. Numbered questions the student does alone.

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