The Izhaadaa! Kit has been created to help language learners master basic place names and vocabulary around travel in Anishinaabemowin.

Izhaadaa Lesson Plan Kit
Izhaadaa! Resource Guide

This resource guide provides ideas for activities, games, songs, and lessons when teaching about place names and travel with your learners. There are also cues and questions for instructors to use in Anishinaabemowin.

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Agindaason

Aandi Ezhaaying? is an early learning book focused on place names. You can download and print your own copy, or view it with your PDF viewer.

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Ganawaabandan

You can watch and listen to Aandi Ezhaaying? read by Rose Marie Tuesday. Follow along, repeat after Rose, and enjoy listening to the story.

Danakamigiziwinan
illustration of a bank

These large flash cards are perfect for teaching and learning about place names and displaying in your learning environment.

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These fun traceables allow learners to practice fine motor skills and place names. They can take a jiimaan or odaabaan to a certain place.

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This sorting activity allows for colour sorting, place sorting, and includes possible prompts for the activity.

illustration of a hospital

These dice inserts for your refillable die can be paired with a driving activity on a play mat, used as small flashcards, or as prompts for other learning activitis.

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Bizindan & Nagamon

This song encourages learners to practice speaking Anishinaabemowin by singing about place names!

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