1. Parent University # 2 Grades K-5 Reading and Language Arts

2. Journeys Each week we focus on the following skills:
Foundational Skills
High frequency words
Letter names and sounds
Phonological awareness
Fluency
Comprehension skills and strategies
Reading Literature and Informational Test
Comprehension Skills and Strategies
Language
Vocabulary Strategies
Grammar
Writing

3. K-2 Online Resources
Reading Eggs (This has practice for reading comprehension, phonics, and lots more)
Vocabulary Spelling City (Students can practice their vocabulary and spelling words)
Think Central (This contains all the textbooks used in class)

4. K-2 Assessments Kindergarten Weekly Skills test Unit Assessments
Sight Word and Spelling Test (Starting in November)
I-Ready-Diagnostic
1st and 2nd Grade
Weekly Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Phonics assessments
Spelling Test
Primary Mid-Year and End of Year (promotional criteria)

5. Writing
Writing skills will be incorporated into every reading block. Students will be practicing their penmanship, grammar, and different types of writing.

6. Content Based Standards
We create our daily lessons by using the Florida Standards as our guide.
Below is a brief layout of the LAFS (Language Arts Florida Standards)
Reading Literature (retelling, story structure, cause & effect, drawing conclusions, inferences, vocabulary)
Reading Informational (main idea, drawing conclusions, compare/contrast, vocabulary, text features)
Writing (opinion and informative essays, grammar, conventions, punctuation, spelling)

7. Evidence Based Answers
Students will be asked to ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring back to the text as the basis for their answers.
Evidence Based Terms:
The author said..
According to the text..
On page ____ it said…
On paragraph ____ it said…
Based on what I read…

8. ELA Typical Monday Introduction to Skills of the Week Day
Spelling Words (spelling, meaning, and parts of speech)
Vocabulary Words (meaning and parts of speech)
Separate into 2 groups
One group is working with teacher, second group is working on Waggle (online program)
Switch then second group with teacher and first group is working on Waggle
Reading Skills (Text Features and Graph Features)
Read anchor text of the week (The Life and Times of an Ant)
Review vocabulary words as they come up in the story
Ask questions throughout the passage to increase comprehension of anchor text and reading skills
Grammar Skill (Present Participles & Past Participles)
Whole Group- Writing- discuss descriptive language to be used in writing

9. Journeys Curriculum 3rd- 5th Grade
Reading Skill of the Week
Reading Strategy of the Week
Grammar Skill of the Week
Genre for Story of the Week
Phonics Skill of the Week
Spelling words (goes along with Phonics Skill of the Week)
Vocabulary Words
Weekly Assessments

10. Journeys Core Reading Program
Research-based, systematic instruction
Consistent curriculum grades K through 6
Focuses on 5 Big Ideas in Reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension
Cohesive program also includes reading, writing, word study, vocabulary, spelling, grammar, and handwriting

11. Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
Explicit instruction
Phonemic awareness taught through the use of oral language, songs, rhymes
Based on principles of language and concepts of print
Differentiated to meet students’ needs
Integrated with spelling and writing
Strategic and intensive intervention as needed

12. Fluency Incorporates instruction to target the following areas:
Accuracy in word recognition
Expression and intonation
Natural phrasing
Pausing and attending to punctuation
Reading rate and stress
Retelling

13. Vocabulary, Word Study, and Spelling
Integrated throughout whole group and small group reading instruction
Vocabulary incorporated with word study, phonics, and spelling
Leveled readers to reinforce and review the vocabulary of the week and previously taught/discussed vocabulary

14. Comprehension
Strategic Instruction: includes stop and think strategy, questioning, summarizing, inferring, identifying story elements, connections, predictions, collaborative grouping
Open ended activities with multimodal opportunities to demonstrate understanding
Leveled Readers to reinforce reading skills

15. Reading and Writing
Program organization and components are same beginning in K and continues through 6th
Spiraling curriculum throughout all grades
Cohesive instruction in strategy and skills for whole group and small group instruction
Integrates technology and digital resources
Includes formal and informal assessment
Aligned to Florida State Standards
Every writing lesson focuses on both the form and traits of writing

16. Grades 3-5 Online Resources
Interactive and integrated with each lesson
Scaffolds instruction
Extends learning opportunities for application and practice
Online resources available to access from home:
WAGGLE
Reading Plus
Spelling City (Spelling & Vocabulary)
Think Central

17. Grades 3-5 Assessments Weekly comprehension and grammar assessments
Spelling tests
Stop, Drop and Test bi-weekly assessments
BAS Assessment
FSA (Promotional Criteria
Portfolio (3rd grade only)
I-Ready-Diagnostic
FAIR-FS