ENL1W Portfolio and Final Exam

Everything for the end of ENL1W. Students build a literacy portfolio from every unit, revise one piece again, reflect on their strategies, write a growth letter with goals and lead a portfolio conference. Review lessons build sight-text reading, poetry analysis, timed writing and language skills.

Includes the culminating task (part of classroom work, suggested 10%) with rubrics, and a two-hour written final exam (20%, for the exam period, as Ontario requires from September 2026) built on an original short story students have never seen, with comprehension, language and media questions, a written response, an answer key and a rubric.

Lessons

1. Portfolio Launch
2. Revise One Piece
3. Reflect and Set Goals
4. Portfolio Conferences (2 to 3 classes)
5. Sight Text Strategies
6. Practice Sight Text: Poetry
7. Writing Under Time
8. Review Stations

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus warm-ups, worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview, the culminating task and rubrics, and the final evaluation with an answer key

Built for the 2023 Ontario Grade 9 English curriculum (ENL1W, de-streamed), and easy to adapt for any Grade 9 English class.

Need just one lesson? Single lessons from this unit will also be available for CA$3.99 each.