Develop Reading Fluency
Controlled texts prevent guessing, help build student confidence, and provide the practice needed to build reading fluency.
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The Essentials Reader Bundle provides phonics controlled reading and support for emerging readers to develop fluency, build comprehension skills, grow their vocabulary, and develop their writing skills.
The Essentials Reader Set includes 30 high-interest texts used through units 1-30 as well as a teacher’s guide and student activity book.
This printed set contains a wide variety of activities and extension opportunities to enhance instruction of the Essentials Reader.
*Not required, but highly recommended for striving readers using Essentials.
Controlled texts prevent guessing, help build student confidence, and provide the practice needed to build reading fluency.
Introduce students to a variety of textual types and lead them through guided discussion. A wide range of activities for each text are included. Each activity is labeled with the target comprehension skill from Bloom's Taxonomy.
The Essentials Reader Teacher's Guide includes a variety of composition activities that correspond with the reader such as writing an essay, a biography, a fable, and a compare and contrast paper. Students also create a brochure and write a research paper.
Develop important academic skills to organize and prioritize content with a variety of organizers, Venn diagrams, techniques for outlining, and note taking.
Essentials Reader is a controlled phonics text to model comprehension skills and bridge instruction for students who are developing the phonics skills needed to read independently.
Each unit in the Student Activity Book includes a page to practice handwriting in either cursive or manuscript.
The Essentials Reader begins with ten quips to build students' confidence and fluency.
Read about sports from around the world such as futball and sepak takraw.
A wide range of STEM topics from wombats to geothermal energy to banyan trees provide opportunities to learn new content while building decoding skills.
Follow directions by reading a recipe and conducting an experiment about weather.
Explore fiction with an American tall tale, Japanese and Indonesian folktales, and a fable.
Learn about Grace Murray Hopper, William Kamkwamba, Billy Mills, Robert Smalls, and other inspiring people.
Learn about the history of the Iditarod, the historical event that inspired it, and why there is a statue of Togo the dog in Central Park.
Develop the background knowledge and skills to read poems by Robert Lewis Stevenson and a poem about a banyan tree.
Discover the joy of teaching reading, vocabulary, spelling and grammar with the Essentials 1-7 Bundle!
In Essentials 1-7, students will learn:
Mix and match this set with the Essentials Reader Bundle, and/or the Rhythm of Handwriting Cursive Bundle or Manuscript Bundle to meet the unique needs of your students.
The Teacher's Manual contains an assessment to determine if students should start with the pre-lessons or in Unit 1.
Use our Essentials Online Planning Guide to incorporate the corresponding online instruction into your upcoming lessons!