Contains planning, differentiation, and assessment tips that enhance instruction in print and book awareness, letter recognition, phonological and phonemic awareness, and more.

Designed for use during Workshop, workbooks provide quicksupport and extension activities for students.

Blackline Masters of the Lesson and Benchmark Assessmentscan be printed off the CD-ROM.

Student's foundational skills are assess both formally and informally. Formal assessments are given at the end of each lesson and unit and are indicated in the Teacher's Guide. Lesson and Unit Assessments measure student understanding of material that was recently taught. These assessments, found in the Assessment Book for each grade level, align with classroom instruction and focus on the literacy skills that are critical to reading success.

Designed for use during Workshop, workbooks provide quicksupport and extension activities for students.

Open Court Reading ©2002 ensures that every child receives the best reading instruction available. This structured program teaches children through a systematic and explicit scaffolding of skills that build upon each other. By taking into account the individual needs of students and providing them with practice and engaging reading materials, Open Court Reading ©2002 helps students become confident and successful readers. The result of over 40 years of scientific field-testing and research, Open Court Reading ©2002 is the most complete reading and language arts program available today.

Open Court Reading ©2002 ensures that every child receives the best reading instruction available. This structured program teaches children through a systematic and explicit scaffolding of skills that build upon each other. By taking into account the individual needs of students and providing them with practice and engaging reading materials, Open Court Reading ©2002 helps students become confident and successful readers. The result of over 40 years of scientific field-testing and research, Open Court Reading ©2002 is the most complete reading and language arts program available today.

Contains planning, differentiation, and assessment tips that enhance instruction in print and book awareness, letter recognition, phonological and phonemic awareness, and more.


Student's foundational skills are assess both formally and informally. Formal assessments are given at the end of each lesson and unit and are indicated in the Teacher's Guide. Lesson and Unit Assessments measure student understanding of material that was recently taught. These assessments, found in the Assessment Book for each grade level, align with classroom instruction and focus on the literacy skills that are critical to reading success.

All phonics and word knowledge lessons in Grades K6 areavailable on convenient reference cards for teachers to useduring instruction.

Depending upon the grade level, students practice thefollowing skills:? Alphabet Knowledge? Phonemic Awareness? Inquiry? Phonics? Comprehension? Spelling? Vocabulary? Writing? Grammar, Mechanics, and UsageTwo Skills Workbooks are available at each grade level, onefor each half of the year. Each workbook has all the skillsheets conveniently organized by lesson. These skill sheetsprovide students the opportunity to practice and apply theskills they are learning. These workbooks are an integral partof instruction.Each Skills Workbook is available in three formatsWorkbook, Blackline Master (BLM), and Annotated TeachersEdition (ATE).

Intervention Workbook (BLM and ATE) Activities providepractice and support for lessons presented in the interventionGuide.

Engaging web-based activities for each Unit.? A themed project for students to complete individuallyor in small groups, resulting in a presentation to theclass.? Students use pre-screened web sites to gather data andrecord answers to questions within a journal supplied.? Rubrics supplied.

Engaging web-based activities for each Unit.? A themed project for students to complete individuallyor in small groups, resulting in a presentation to theclass.? Students use pre-screened web sites to gather data andrecord answers to questions within a journal supplied.? Rubrics supplied.

Each lesson in the grade level program has a correspondingReteach activity for those students needing extra practice andsupport.


Each lesson in the grade level program has a correspondingReteach activity for those students needing extra practice andsupport.

Lessons in writing, grammar, and mechanics provide studentsa reference book to learn about and check critical writing,revising, and editing skills. The Language Arts Handbook is anintegral part of the writing lessons.

Designed to enhance the SRA Imagine It! vocabulary strand,the Intensive Vocabulary Kit will help to increase thevocabulary knowledge of students who require extra support.Components of the kit include a read aloud anthology,teachers resource book, and vocabulary picture cards. Lessonsprovide fifteen to twenty minutes of daily vocabularyinstruction and include a weekly instructional plan andsuggested extension activities.