Fiction Readers: Upper Emergent Kit

Teacher's Guide with lesson plans for each book

Build literacy skills with easy‐to‐use lesson plans that address a content and language standard. Each lesson is organized in a consistent format for ease of use: an overview, four pages of instruction that address all aspects of literacy, a Reader's Theater script, and two student activity sheets. Pacing Plans for using a kit are provided in three options and teachers may choose to complete some or all of the lesson activities in order to best meet the needs of their students.

The instructional components include:

• Word Work on high‐frequency words
• Key words used in the story
• Word play
• Academic vocabulary
• Comprehension work before‐, during‐, and after‐reading instruction
• Writing
• Cross‐curricular connections
• Building fluency

Implementation Guide

Seamlessly integrate Fiction Readers into instruction while meeting standards with streamlined prep, research-based strategies, best practices for reading instruction, content connections, and more. The full-color Implementation Guide features:

• Strategies for teaching reading and writing with fiction and strong content connections
• Multiple assessment opportunities for teachers to use before, during, and after reading
• Four options for fluency instruction and practice
• Four options for extending each lesson
• Pacing options for 5-week, 15-week, and 30-week implementation
• Standards and reading level correlations
• Reading instruction best practices
• Differentiation strategies

Assessment Guide

Each Assessment Guide in this series includes research about assessments, how to use the assessments provided with the product, a series Placement Test in digital format, an oral reading record and multiple choice questions for each book, references cited, and an answer key for the lessons.

Digital Resources

Digital resources are available via digital download and include:

Teacher Resources:

• Lesson plans with student pages
• Diagnostic and summative assessments
• Scope and Sequence organized by language arts skills and strategies
• Reader’s Theater script cover

 Family Tips Booklet:

Strengthen the home-school connection and provide family members with the tools to promote literacy development at home. This booklet features activities and games to practice word work, reading fluency, and comprehension. At-home language and literacy extension activities are also included. Digital copies of the booklet in English and Spanish can be printed and replicated for students to take home.

Books:

Audiobooks - Students can listen to the audiobook while reading the physical book or the eBook to serve as a model of fluent reading.

eBooks - Digital copies of the readers can be viewed on any device and can be used with or

without the audiobook. These digital books can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat or any web browser.

Read-Along eBooks - Combine professional audio recordings with digital copies of the books. As

the audio plays, the text is highlighted word by word, making it easy for all students to follow along.

Students can click or tap on any challenging word to hear it read again.

Interactiv-eBooks with two activities per book (one comprehension and one writing)

Use the Interactiv‐eBooks to enhance students' reading experience. Interactiv-eBooks feature a variety of tools that build fluency and comprehension while keeping students actively engaged. Each kit includes an Interactiv-eBook for each title that allow students to:

• Listen to the entire book
• Hear individual words spoken
• Record themselves reading the book
• Complete comprehension and writing activities
• Practice and navigate test-taking skills found in new electronic assessments
• And more

The Interactiv‐eBooks can be used in a variety of instructional settings and support numerous literacy and learning goals.

Home-School Connections

Help caregivers build valuable literacy skills at home with the Parent Tips booklet provided digitally within each Fiction Readers kit.

Filled with tips and activities, the Parent Tips booklet will give caregivers the confidence to help develop a love of reading and writing at home. To facilitate ongoing reading practice, digital versions of the books can be printed and replicated for students to take home.