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10 Theme Boxes
Each box includes 5 theme-related trade books, 3 laminated applications and the Theme Guide that includes: |
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Learning in the theme overview |
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Dramatic play suggestions |
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Planning calendars |
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Activities for whole group, small group and independent instruction |
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Message Time Plus®, think alouds and messages |
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Related books and vocabulary lists |
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Terms for teachers |
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Welcome to School |
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Living Together |
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People, Places and Pets |
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Changes Around Us |
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Markets and Food |
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Daily Life in Many Lands |
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Folk Stories on the Farm |
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Measure Up! |
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Seeds, Plants and Gardens |
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Exploring Pond Life |
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Resources, Books & Materials- Classroom Collection
In addition to the 80 trade books included in the Theme and Author boxes, is the classroom collection. It is a multicultural, multi-genre collection of quality children's books selected for their rich vocabulary and content. Included are rhymes and songs for phonemic awareness and language development, fiction and nonfiction, and social studies and science subjects. Theme guides provide additional read aloud activities for selected titles. |
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5 Author Study Boxes
Each pack includes six trade books, and an Author Study Guide. Laminated, reusable pictures for creating an author study board are also included. |
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Mo Willems - picture books about emotions and starting school |
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Angela Johnson - picture and poetry books about families and daily life |
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Donald Crews - picture books about transportation |
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Ann Morris - nonfiction books about daily life around the world |
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Lois Ehlert - nonfiction and picture books about the natural world |
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Alphabet Knowledge - Teaches letter recognition, phonemic awareness, and phono-logical knowledge. It provides a wide variety of focused activities for daily instruction on the alphabet including rhymes, songs and center activities. |
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Assessments - |
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Contains theme related assessments to record a child's growth towards mastery of skills. Skills are cross-referenced with activities to support children's development. The book also includes theme work sampling prompts. |
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Creating a Classroom Literacy Environment - A user-friendly guide to creating the very best classrooms in which children's learning and children's work are the focus, so that every activity and every available material can become opportunities for engaged and joyful learning. |
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The Curriculum Guide - Includes an introduction to the curriculum and chapters on setting up the classroom, classroom management, intentional read alouds, Message Time Plus®, writing and more. |
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Reproducibles - Contains themes related to black line drawings for the creation of small group and center activities. These drawings are meant to be used by teachers to create activities described in the Theme Guides. |
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Alphabet Cards - 2 packages of upper- and lowercase alphabet cards. |
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Training DVD - of Message Time Plus®. |
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| Assessment Materials |
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A reproducible portfolio sheet, included in the Assessments Book, prompts children to draw and write in response to the theme. |
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25 Student Portfolios that feature an alphabet recognition assessment, are provided for collecting portfolio sheets. |
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Instructions for using Message Time Plus® for continuing diagnostic assessment are included in the Curriculum Guide. |
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Student progress checklists allow teachers to track student progress toward the mastery of skills in Blueprint. |
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The Home Connection
Blueprint includes 25 copies of "Make Room for Reading," a booklet on creating a home literacy environment, are provided for children to take home. A CLI Home Lending Library can be purchased from CLI separately. |
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