Teacher Resource
Standards-aligned Essential, Informational, and Literary Text Type Collections include a Teacher Resource with activities, graphic organizers, and teaching tips.
- Strategies are organized by standards and can be used with any title within the collections.
- The suggested strategies can be used in a guided reading group, with a small group, or with individual students during independent reading to practice, reinforce, and assess the related standard.
- Students use templates, reading journals, and graphic organizers to structure text-dependent written responses while deepening comprehension.
- Talking about reading also figures prominently in many of the strategies designed to support and extend the reading experience.
- Specific discussion prompts and ideas guide readers to achieve a deeper level of understanding.