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Sorting Waste

PBLA Module

Sorting waste supports environmental awareness and community responsibility. This module introduces vocabulary related to garbage, recycling, and compost, and gives learners practice reading and interpreting environmental signs while thinking critically about proper waste disposal. It also highlights learning strategies such as counting syllables, matching icons to images, and recognizing fonts to strengthen reading and symbol-recognition skills.

A woman stands beside blue and green recycling bins, holding up plastic items. The poster reads “Sorting Waste: Complete Module” and lists topics covered, with logos for TIES and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Complete Module

Story

1. Donna Recycles — See Donna in action sorting lunch waste like a recycling pro.

A woman stands smiling next to recycling and waste bins, holding a brown paper bag. The text reads “Donna Recycles.” She is in an indoor setting with a blue wall behind her.
Interactive
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Digital Activities

First introduced in class to develop vocabulary and symbol recognition related to waste sorting, these tasks can be revisited independently with instant feedback.

  • Vocabulary Building
  • First Sounds, First Letters
Three recycling bins (blue, black, and green) are shown on the right. The text on the left reads “Recycling and Waste: Vocabulary Building.” The Vancouver Immigrant Society logo is in the top left corner.
Vocabulary Building
A slide titled "Recycling and Waste: First Sounds, First Letters" shows labeled images of recycling bins and materials, and a video thumbnail with waste items and a play button.
First Sounds, First Letters

Videos

These videos introduce recycling vocabulary and show what waste goes into each bin. The Pictures video helps learners practice vocabulary visually, while the Words video focuses on spelling the related terms.

  • Recycling, Garbage and Compost: Pictures
  • Recycling Garbage and Compost: Words
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