JJOURNEYSOURNEYS 2014 C 2014 COMMONOMMON C COREORE TOOLS OF THE TRADE

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.

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

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

Three books with complete lesson plans in the Teacher’s Edition to use with Units 2, 4, and 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.

RESOURCES TO SUPPORT INSTRUCTION

Instructional Card Kit

Includes:• High Frequency Word

Cards • Vocabulary in Context

Cards • Retelling Cards • Letter, Word, Picture

Cards • Punctuation Cards

Sound Spelling CardsSupports 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.

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.

Weekly Assessments

Weekly assessment of Target Vocabulary, Vocabulary Strategies, Comprehension, Decoding, and Grammar.

Unit and Benchmark Assessments

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

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.

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.

Decodable Readers(6 Unit Titles, 6 copies)

Provides targeted practice for the week’s phonics skill.

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

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. “Be a Reading Detective” returns students to the anchor text in the core student book to read closely for important textual clues.

Reading Tool Kit

Provides targeted skill lessons for Intensive Intervention (Tier III) for primary grade students.

DIGITAL RESOURCES

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.

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.