Macmillan

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• Macmillan
• Treasures
• and the Lee County
• Academic Plan

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Objectives

• Academic Plan
• Aligned to Florida Reading/Language Arts
  Standards
• and Macmillan Treasures
• Teachers Edition
• Organization/Management System
• Whole Class Instruction
• Differentiated Instruction
• Review program components

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Lee County Reading Academic Plan

• Spring 2008 updates
• include the correlation
• Of Macmillan Treasures
• to the
• Lee County Academic Reading Plan.

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Reading Academic Plan
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• Reading
• Academic Plan
• with
• Macmillan Correlations

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Quarterly Content Guide
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• Who dares to teach must never
• cease to learn. 
• John
  Cotton Dana

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The Teachers Editions

• Grades One Five
• Six teachers editions - one for each of the 6
  week units
• Five weeks of teaching and week 6 is review
  and assess

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Start Smart

• First Second Grade only
• First grade is a three week plan
• Second grade is a one week plan
• Opportunity for review of last years skills in
  phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary,
  listening comprehension, and writing

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Unit Contents

• Planning the Unit
• Using the Student Book
• Wrapping up the Unit
• Additional Lessons and Resources

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Unit Planner

• Theme development
• Skills trace
• Weekly priorities

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Unit Resources

• Literature
• Teaching Support
• Student Practice
• FCAT Success!
• Technology
• Triumphs

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Unit Assessment

• Screening, Diagnostics, and Placement
• Monitoring Progress
• Managing Reporting
• Test Alignment

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Unit Opener

• Theme Project
• Cross Curricular
• Projects

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A Week at a Glance

• Weekly Literature
• Book Mark
• Whole/small group priorities
• SSS legend
• Differentiated Instruction
• Resource review

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Daily Reading Block

• 30 minutes of whole group instruction
• 15-20 minutes for each small group of
  differentiated instruction (60 min.)
• 10 minute whole group wrap-up
• 30 minutes or more of writing/grammar instruction
  (outside the reading block)
  

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Ninety Minutes

• Oral Language
• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics/Spelling
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension
• Differentiated Instruction

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Differentiated Instruction and Small Group Options

• Focus on Skills
• Focus on Leveled Readers
• Suggested lesson plan

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Managing the Class Independent Activities

• Class Management Tools
• Foldables
• Leveled Readers
• Leveled Practice
• Technology
• Literacy Activities Workstations

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Effective Instruction

• Targeted high-utility, priority skills
• Scaffolded I Do, We Do, You Do
• Immediate corrective feedback
• Repetition, review, and practice
• Controlled text

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Instructional Routines

• I Do / We Do / You Do
• Phonics
• Define / Example / Ask
• Concept vocabulary
• Read / Spell / Write
• High-frequency vocabulary
• Confirm / Discuss / Connect
• Oral vocabulary

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Lesson Contents

• Bookmark
• Oral Language Talk About It
• Phonemic Awareness (Primary)
• Phonics/Spelling (Primary)
• First Read/ Get Ready Story
• Quick Check
• Grammar
• Writing opportunities

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Lesson Contents

• Read Aloud Anthology
• Main Selection
• Retelling/summarizing
• Paired selection
• Write About It

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Take a Walk Day 1-5

• Daily bookmarks
• Instructional Speech
• Think Alouds
• Quick Checks
• Instructional routines (for ex. High Frequency)
• Transitions that teach
• Constructive Feedback
• Meet the Author/Illustrator

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End of Week Assessment

• Locate your unit 1/week 1 end-of-week assessment
  two page spread.
• Note the assessed skills
• Review the Diagnose Prescribe table
  correlated to the weekly assessment.
• Find a referenced Additional Lesson in the
  tabbed portion at the back of the unit.

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Unit 1 Week 3

• Locate the Time for Kids selections.
• Walk through the sequence
• Talk about it
• Read about it
• Write about it

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Spiral Review- Week 6

• Show What You Know
• Writing Workshop
• Rubrics
• Computer Literacy
• Unit Closer
• Readers Theater (option)
• Time for Kids Magazine (option)
• Classroom Libraries (option)

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Unit Assessments

• Show What You Know
• FCAT Format Unit Assessment

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Additional Lessons/Resources

• Additional Lessons
• Classroom Library
• Theme Bibliography
• Author/Illustrator awards
• Word Lists
• Scope Sequence

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Reflection Quiz

• Each week, the students work within the following
  cycle of their weekly themes Talk About It, Read
  About It, and _____________.
• 2. The first read teaches two things
  __________ and ____________.
• 3. At the end of every main selection,
  K-2nd grade students ___________ and in 3rd-5th
  grades they_____________.
• 4. The last comprehension question always
  _____________.
• 5. If the main selection is fiction, the
  paired selection is ________________.
• 6. Week three in the student book is always
  ____________.

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Reflection Quiz Continued

• 7. Show What You Know is a spiral review of
  skills taught during the unit. In the student
  edition, week ____ is Show What You Know.
• 8. In the Teachers Edition, the white pages are
  for ______ and the yellow pages are for ________.
• 9. Each teacher will receive four workstation
  flip charts. List the charts
• _______, _______, _______, _______.
• 10. What two student consumables did the
  district select?
• __________ and __________.
• 11. Grade one through grade five has themes that
  last _____ week. Each unit lasts _______ weeks.
  The last week of every unit is always _______ and
  _________.
• 12. List the four differentiated reading levels
  within the Treasures leveled readers___________,
  ____________, ___________, ____________.