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Sample Lessons

Develop Reading Fluency

Controlled texts prevent guessing, help build student confidence, and provide the practice needed to build reading fluency.

Practice Comprehension Skills

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.

Beginning Composition

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.

Organizing Content and Ideas

Develop important academic skills to organize and prioritize content with a variety of organizers, Venn diagrams, techniques for outlining, and note taking.

Build skills and confidence!

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.

Extra Handwriting Practice

Each unit in the Student Activity Book includes a page to practice handwriting in either cursive or manuscript.

Types of Text in the Essentials Reader

  • Quips

    The Essentials Reader begins with ten quips to build students' confidence and fluency.

  • Sports Articles

    Read about sports from around the world such as futball and sepak takraw.

  • STEM Topics

    A wide range of STEM topics from wombats to geothermal energy to banyan trees provide opportunities to learn new content while building decoding skills.

  • Recipe and an Experiment

    Follow directions by reading a recipe and conducting an experiment about weather.

  • Tall Tales, Folk Tales, & Fables

    Explore fiction with an American tall tale, Japanese and Indonesian folktales, and a fable.

  • Biographies

    Learn about Grace Murray Hopper, William Kamkwamba, Billy Mills, Robert Smalls, and other inspiring people.

  • Connected Texts

    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.

  • Poetry

    Develop the background knowledge and skills to read poems by Robert Lewis Stevenson and a poem about a banyan tree.

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Essentials Standards Alignment