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How Do Students Become Good Readers?

 

As our emergent readers develop into upper- emergent and early fluent readers, we need to constantly remind them to use their “Good Reader” strategies.  They must consistently ask themselves these questions as they approach unfamiliar text:  Does it look right?  Does it sound right?  Does it make sense?

The CraftPlus Components

 

K-8 Grade-level Teacher Packs

 

Curriculum Guide. For Kindergarten, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth.

 

Each grade-level guide includes sections with the following information:

  • CraftPlus® Overview

  • How the CraftPlus Instructional Components Work Together

  • Writing Notebooks for Students and Teachers

  • The Reading-Writing Connection

  • Some Key Terms

  • Understanding CraftPlus Writing Levels

  • Understanding CraftPlus Instructional Levels

  • How to Teach a New Target Skill

  • How to Plan for and Teach with Genre Blocks

  • The CraftPlus Mini-Lesson Cycle for a New Target Skill

Grade-level Daily Writing Lessons. 180 writing mini-lessons track the CraftPlus curriculum, supply unit assessments, and list Target Skills expectations. Complete with a detailed Target Skills list, scope and sequence, and assessment rubrics, these ready-to-go, grade-level lessons provide teachers with the immediate support they need now and for the entire year. Click here to view the first week of lessons and the first assessments for each grade level!

 

Professional Resources. Each teacher receives one of these professional resources: Teaching the Youngest Writers (grades K-2); Building a Writing Community (grades 3-6); and Listen to This (grades 7-8). The resources are full of useful tips and lessons. Read more about the core and supplemental professional resources below.

 

DVD Reference Set

 

Extend CraftPlus with a set of sixteen 45-minute DVDs with more than 12 hours of professional information, lessons, and classroom demonstrations. Includes viewing guide. $299. Click here to view a complete list of DVD/video contents.

 

Staff Development Package

 

CraftPlus gives you the capability for powerful, job-embedded staff development based on the research-proven study-group approach. Includes a Facilitator’s Guide; resource CD with 300 student samples in all assessed genres, and a full set of facilitator reference materials (a copy of each of the purchased Curriculum Guides, Daily Writing Lessons, and professional books). $199.

 

Bonus with purchase of all three components!

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