JJOURNEYSOURNEYS 2014 C 2014 COMMONOMMON C COREORE TOOLS OF THE TRADE

KINDERGARTEN

TEACHER MATERIALSTOOL IMAGE PURPOSE USE IN YOUR CLASSROOM

Teacher Editions1 for each of the 6 units

Offers easy organization and Instructional support for Whole-Group instruction, Small Group instruction, Extended Reading, Intervention and ELL support.

Instructional Flip Chart Set of 3

Large write-on chart providing support for targeted skill instruction.

Read Aloud Books30 Inviting trade books that support weekly instruction.

Big Books(32)

New book each week for Shared Reading; includes two selections: anchor text and a paired text for text-to-text comparison. Two additional big books include:

A Journey in Songs and Rhymes—

A Journey from A to Z

Focus Wall Posters

Provides a weekly classroom look at the literature and skills that provide the focus for each week.

Grab and Go Kits

All the resources needed for weekly instruction including leveled practice; organized in an easy to use lesson folder.

Literacy and Language Guide

Grade level teaching guide that provides reading mini-lessons and interactive Read-Aloud for core reading selections by Irene Fountas as well as Spelling and Vocabulary activities by Shane Templeton.

STUDENT MATERIALS

Student Book

Soft-cover, non-consumable book; contains two decodable stories each week for students to apply the phonics and high frequency words they have learned.

Reader’s Notebook

Provides opportunities for responding to the Anchor Text and citing text evidence. Also provides practice for phonics, vocabulary strategies, spelling, grammar, and writing.

RESOURCES TO SUPPORT INSTRUCTION

Instructional Card Kit

Includes:• High Frequency

Word Cards• Vocabulary in

Context Cards • Retelling Cards • Letter, Word, Picture

Cards • Punctuation Cards

Alphafriends

Mnemonic device that helps children connect sound to letter; includes Sound Spelling Cards.

Sound/Spelling Cards

Support spelling/phonics instruction and match the Alphafriends images.

ELL Language Support Cards

Helps pre-teach critical skills and supports a variety of ELL vocabulary needs.

Common Core Writing Handbook TE

Includes writing models along with interactive practice and a handbook section that is a tool students can refer to when engaged in writing.

Family Connection Book

Includes a weekly menu of interactive games, activities, and reading passages. These activities support classroom reading vocabulary and skills in ways that enable parents to work along with their child.

ASSESSMENTS

Emerging Literacy Survey

Diagnostic instrument of phonemic awareness, basic reading skills, plus passages for reading in context.

Unit and Benchmark Assessments

Help prepare students for Common Core Assessment—reading complex text and performance tasks.

Progress Monitoring Assessment

Supports Strategic Intervention and is administered bi-weekly.

SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTION

Vocabulary Readers(6 copies of each of the

30 titles)

Provides practice and application of weekly target vocabulary presented in core student book. All are nonfiction, have been leveled by Irene Fountas, and have a leveled instructional guide.

Leveled Readers(on, above ,below, &

ELL level)(6 copies of each. 30

titles per level; includes 8-page

Teaching guide.)

Provides leveled Guided Reading instruction and practice for the comprehension skills and vocabulary taught in the main selection. They are leveled A-Z by Irene Fountas.

Literacy Centers

Flip-chart style center activity stations: Think and Write, Comprehension and Fluency, and Word Study.

INTERVENTION

Intervention Teaching Resources

Blackline Masters designed to help at-risk students.

DIGITAL RESOURCES

Reading Assessment App

Provides Weekly Common Core reading practice and assessment with complex texts tied to weekly major ELA skills and topics.

Leveled Reader App

Enables students from grades K through 6 to access and read digital fiction and non-fiction readers that are appropriate to their grade and guided reading level.