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JOURNEYS 2014 COMMON CORECHANDLER UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT RESEARCH BASED CORE INSTRUCTION
2ND GRADE
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. *#
Focus Wall Posters
Provides a weekly classroom look at the literature and skills that provide the focus for each week.#
Decodable Readers
Provides targeted practice for the week’s phonics skill. (6 Unit Titles, 6 copies) *#
Decodable Readers Blackline
Masters
Provides targeted practice for the week’s phonics skill in a blackline master to duplicate. *#
Grab and Go Kits
All the resources needed for weekly instruction including leveled practice; organized in an easy to use lesson folder. *#
Leveled Readers(on, above & below level)
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. (6 copies of each. 30 titles per level; includes 8-page Teaching guide.) *#
*Included in Teacher or Student Set of Materials#Available on ThinkCentral
Vocabulary Readers
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. (6 copies of each of the 30 titles) *#
Literacy Centers Flip-chart style center activity stations: Think and Write, Comprehension and Fluency, and Word Study. *#
STUDENT MATERIALS
Student Book
Delivers weekly grade level Common Core instruction through the anchor text, analyze the test boxes, turn and talk activities, paired text with activities for text to text comparison as well as a grammar and writing lesson. *#
Trade Books
Trade booksQuarter 2: Poppleton in Winter*(Lesson Plans in back of Unit 2)Quarter 3: Read Aloud: Where Do Polar Bears Live* (Lesson Plans in back of Unit 4)Quarter 1: Exploring Space Travel* (Lesson Plans in back of Unit 6)
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. *(TE) #
RESOURCES TO SUPPORT INSTRUCTION
*Included in Teacher or Student Set of Materials#Available on ThinkCentral
Instructional Card Kit
Includes:• High Frequency Word Cards * #• Vocabulary in Context Cards *#• Retelling Cards *#• Letter, Word, Picture Cards * • Punctuation Cards *
Sound Spelling Cards
Supports the connection between the spoken sound and the spelling of that sound. *#
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. *(TE) #
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
Comprehensive Screening
Assessment
Group administered test for initial screening of Language Arts, Phonics/Decoding, Writing, Comprehension and Vocabulary, and Spelling. *#
Diagnostic Assessment
Individually administered tests which provide a diagnostic instrument of basic reading skills, plus passages for reading in context; results provide targeted suggestions to inform instruction for grouping. Six copies per school. #
*Included in Teacher or Student Set of Materials#Available on ThinkCentral
Weekly Assessments
Weekly assessment of Target Vocabulary, Vocabulary Strategies, Comprehension, Decoding, and Grammar. In Grab and Go. *#
Unit and Benchmark
Assessments
Help prepare students for Common Core Assessment—reading complex text and performance tasks. *(TE) #
Progress Monitoring Assessment
Supports Tier II Intervention instruction centered around the Write-In Readers. Given bi-weekly.*#
Cold Reads
Leveled passages to build comprehension of increasingly complex texts; includes complex questions requiring text evidence; aligned to Common Core State Standards; opportunities to develop and monitor fluency. *#
Test Power(Student Edition)
Additional coverage and support for standardized tests & standards. *#
INTERVENTION
Write-In Readers
Strategic Intervention Support for Tier II. Consumable work texts that pre-teach and reteach weekly core skills and vocabulary to help Tier II students successfully access classroom instruction. *#
Curious About Words
Provides oral vocabulary instruction for children with limited vocabularies. *#
Reading Tool Kit
Provides targeted skill lessons for Intensive Intervention (Tier III) for primary grade students. One per school. #
*Included in Teacher or Student Set of Materials#Available on ThinkCentral
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
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. *#
Write-Smart CD-ROM
Electronic support for writing instruction: includes ideas for writing, interactive student models, interactive graphic organizers, interactive revision lessons, a writing model bank and a rubric generator. *#
Teacher One Stop Planner DVD
Two DVD set, the Teacher One–Stop Planner allows teachers to plan using digital versions of the Teacher's Editions, Projectables, Practice Books, Student Editions, ExamView software and test banks, Grab-n-Go Resources, and Reading Adventures Magazines are also included on the DVD set. *
Common Core ELA Exemplar
Resources
Lessons and student performance tasks for some Common Core Exemplar texts found in Appendix B. *#
ADDITIONAL CUSD TEXTS
Required Reading/
Read Aloud
Quarter 1: Read Aloud Charlotte’s Web (Resources online on Curriculum Website—Teacher Access)*Quarter 3: Sarah, Plain and Tall (Resources online on Curriculum Website—Teacher Access)*
*Included in Teacher or Student Set of Materials#Available on ThinkCentral