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We will use the new tool that we learned with Erika to guide our small groups instructions.

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Using Jumprope readers for shared reading.

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Dot Likes to Dig (K)

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Multi-Year Morphology Plan Example - The Six Shifts    .pdf

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What might be next steps for your team in reading practice?

What support might you need?

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A series of read alouds with free downloadable activities for studying words.

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Analyzing sentence and text structure, writing about reading. Tips for connecting reading and writing to enhance both.

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k-2 Coaching Readers- Prompts & Questions

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Conferring Cheat Sheet (language comprehension)

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Conferring Cheat Sheet (language comprehension)

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Advancing Literacy Website (Formerly TCRWP)

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Advancing Literacy Website (Formerly TCRWP)

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Cultivating Meaningful Learning Communities through Literacy

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The recording from our session can be found here:

https://erinkentconsulting.com/ekc-partner-shekou-is

Password: SIS2023EKC

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Grade 2: Consider shorter assessments for progress monitoring such as sentence complexity based tests (Salford test) or 1 minute reading passages(orf-dibbles).

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Grade 2: Consider shorter assessments for progress monitoring such as sentence complexity based tests (Salford test) or 1 minute reading passages(orf-dibbles).

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Grade 2: Maybe more background and early spoken vocabulary and visual vocabulary before the meat of the unit.

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Grade 2: Maybe more background and early spoken vocabulary and visual vocabulary before the meat of the unit.

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Assessments: what assessments are the most time effective - what do we do that takes the shortest amount of time? and provide us with the most important data to target instruction for our students?

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What clicked: the importance of background knowledge and content understanding boosted reading comprehension

What do we want to know more about: small group instruction? how do we balance conferencing? assessments? differentiation? how do we fit everything in?

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From a spoken language perspective MLL need more time with vocabulary… perhaps through discussions in the morning or an entrance ticket to the class or a digital dictionary.

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Already teaching orthographic and phonemic knowledge but some students don’t have a mental image of what the word means. Work on specific instruction on what words mean.

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Shekou IS Grade 1 Unpacking TCRWP Phonics Unit of Study

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Shekou IS Grade 2 Unpacking TCRWP Phonics Unit of Study

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Lucy Calkins and Colleagues Units of Study

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Home / Our Series - Phonics

To create these new phonics units, Lucy and her coauthors have drawn on all that they know from decades of teaching reading and writing in thousands of classrooms across the world, and they've relied on proven, research-based practices-especially on the work of Isabel Beck, Donna Scanlon, Pat and Jim Cunningham, Rollanda O'Connor, Marilyn Adams, Tim Rasinski, Donald Bear, Wiley Blevins, and the late Marie Clay.

The new Units of Study in Phonics, Grades K-2:

provide a lean and concise instructional pathway in phonics that is realistic and doable, and that taps into kids' skills and energy for tackling the fabulous challenge of learning to read and write,

introduce high-leverage phonics concepts and strategies in a way that keeps pace with students' reading and writing and helps them understand when, how, and why they can use phonics to read and write,

offer delightfully fun and engaging storylines, classroom mascots, songs, chants, rhymes, and games to help students fall head over heels in love with phonics and to create a joyous community of learners,

align with state-of-the-art reading and writing workshops for a coherent approach in which terminology, tools, rituals, and methods are shared in ways that benefit both teachers and kids.

In the hurly-burly of classroom life, every minute you spend on one subject is less time spent on another subject. Lucy and her coauthors aim to protect time for authentic reading and writing, while also helping you teach a rigorous, research-based phonics curriculum.

Units of Study

Small Groups to Support Phonics

Resource Pack & Mentor Texts

Online Resources

WATCH A SAMPLE MINILESSON VIDEO

Purchasing Options
Ordering Guidance:
Each teacher will need one set of Units and one Resource Pack. (Note: The Resource Pack materials for each grade level are extensive and come packed in two boxes.) In addition, schools will need to plan for some other resources including a stuffed elephant or lion (Mabel and Rasheed-our K and grade 1 mascots) for each classroom, plus some other classroom materials, such as white boards and magnetic letters, that many classrooms already have. For a complete list of resources, see inventory/shopping lists: Grade K, Grade 1, and Grade 2.

Phonics Bundles for Grades K-2

School Supply Shopping List (not available from Heinemann)

Phonics Units for Grades K-2

Resource Packs for Each Grade Level

A Note About Resource Packs: The Resource Packs are composed of resources made from good-quality card stock, all beautifully illustrated and printed in 4-color. Resources include alphabet charts, many other types of other charts, letter cards, word cards, picture cards, printed copies of poems and songs, other cards such as onset rime cards and vowel picture cards, and much more-about 40 pounds of resources per grade level! (Note: Resources for each grade level come packed in two boxes.)

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The Reading GPS gives teachers information about whether students are moving toward the goal of proficient reading.

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Flyleaf Publishing - Online Materials Portal

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For Students - Flyleaf Publishing - Online Materials Portal

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Free Books for Kids | Consonant Digraphs | Beyond Decodables | Teacher Resources

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Beyond Decodables provides access to free kids books online with a focus on phonics and diversity. Kids books include decodable words related to CVC words, consonant diagraphs, CVCe Words, Multisyllabic Words, Consonant Blends, and Long Vowel Patterns.

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K 2 Phonics Workshop 2 Unpacking a Unit of Study

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Wiley Blevins
Links to purchase High-quality Decodables

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science of reading research, phonics instruction must follow a defined scope and sequence with ample review and repetition. Each skill is explicitly introduced and applied in ways that get students thinking and talking about how words work.

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Letter ID and Sounds
Quick Phonemic Awareness Screener
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About the cover artist

Elizabeth Close is an Anangu woman from the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara language groups in the APY Lands in outback South Australia. She was born in Adelaide and spent much of her upbringing in remote communities, learning her language and receiving cultural education.

'This artwork represents the literacy and numeracy learning journey, and the path towards independent learning. The circles represent the collaborative learning and supports around children with specific learning difficulties, including children, schools, families, SPELD SA and others.'  Elizabeth Close, Artist.
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The Six Shifts Where Science of Reading Meets Balanced Literacy. We provide resources, professional development, and literacy audits for busy literacy educators like you.

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Advancing Literacy recommends an array of foundational skills assessments in order to gain a broader understanding of students’ progress and needs. Teachers of early readers and writers will likely want to gather information about students’ concepts about print and letter sound identification. Then, too, once students are reading and writing, assessments of high frequency word knowledge, phonological awareness, phonics decoding, and spelling are also important.

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Home / Our Series - Jump Rope Readers

Michael Rae-Grant and Lucy Calkins, Series Editors

What makes a book "just right" for a beginning reader? The answer is simple. A book is just right if the child can read it and wants to read it. Anything else is "just okay" at best. But, if you work with beginning readers, you know it's not easy to find these "just right" books.

On the one hand, there are books that beginners want to read but can't. Most picture books and chapter books fall into this category. Surprisingly, so do many of the early readers and I-can-reads you see in libraries and bookstores. On the other hand, too many of the decodable books that we see in classrooms aren't particularly enticing, even if beginners can read them. We think beginning readers deserve better.

We want all readers to begin as we aim for them to continue-with enthusiasm for reading and excitement to pick up the next book.

Download the Overview View Samples and Summaries

Introductory Video from Lucy Calkins and TCRWP Coauthors

"Teachers and students in our district have been loving the Jump Rope Readers. As a district, we purchased several different brands of decodable texts to find what teachers and students liked best and over and over, we hear how the Jump Rope Readers are the easiest to use and that students love the beautiful pictures and great story lines. We are grateful for this resource that allows us to easily match students to books that match the phonics work they are currently doing and that the books provide such lovable and fun stories."
- Jenn Nelson (Saline Area Schools, MI)

Four Key Qualities of Beginner Books

Influential reading researchers Richard Anderson and Freddy Hiebert described the key qualities that educators should look for in books for beginning readers in a report they wrote for the National Academy of Education. They wrote:
"Writing the first selections a child will read is a difficult balancing act. Ideally, the selections will be:

interesting (so that students will want to read them);

comprehensible (so that students are able to understand them); and

instructive (so that students will learn from them)."

Of course, a quality that underlies all of this is representation. When books are an accurate reflection of our beautifully diverse world, children find them considerably more interesting and comprehensible, so we added that foundational idea to the list of essential priorities that informed the development of the Jump Rope Readers series.

Interesting and Comprehensible

As you explore the Jump Rope Readers, you'll notice the books are arranged into different series, each starring a distinctive main character. There's Nick, who loves dinosaurs, and Ana with her big imagination, Tam, who's full of energy and mischief, Imran, who's a bit shy at first, and many more. In addition to getting to know these lovable main characters, we also get to know their diverse families. All the Jump Rope Readers take place in the same dynamic, inclusive urban neighborhood, so characters from earlier books make special guest appearances in later ones, extending stories in ways that will engage and delight beginning readers.

The fact that the Jump Rope Readers are arranged into series makes them more engaging to kids, and also makes them especially comprehensible. Series books feature familiar characters who react to problems in predictable ways. Once kids know who the characters are, they know what to expect, and this helps them follow the story. To ensure that kids understand the key characters and their relationships, each series begins with a "book one" that lays out these elements. In set A, "book one" is a picture book that teachers can read aloud to kids. In set B, it's a decodable book that kids can read on their own.

Example: Titles in the Red Series, featuring Tam and Nat

Representative

When kids open a book and see characters who look, live, or act like them, it helps them connect not only to the characters, but to the act of reading.

Instructive

Like all decodable books, the Jump Rope Readers start off simple, then gradually grow in complexity as more phonics content is added. The books follow a scope and sequence of letter-sound correspondences and high-frequency words that aligns with the phonics progression behind the Units of Study-and this same progression, or one quite similar to it, informs most other phonics programs as well.

Within this progression, the texts don't introduce every letter-sound correspondence in the English language (there are over two hundred), but rather focus on those letter-sound correspondences that occur most frequently in print, providing kids with an efficient path toward more advanced reading.

Overall, the scope and sequence offers a steady "ramp" into early trade books. By the time students have finished the last Jump Rope Reader, they'll have lots of letter-sound correspondences under their belts, and they'll be ready to tackle familiar series such as Fly Guy, Yasmin, Henry and Mudge, or Sofia Martinez. Ready, that is, for a deep dive into the wider world of children's literature.

To view the Scope and Sequence for the titles within each set, check out the Series Overview (pages 10 & 12).

Series Components

The Jump Rope Readers series consists of 66 high-interest decodable books and six accompanying read-alouds, organized into two classroom sets, each composed of two boxes. Together, these books gradually and systematically introduce beginning readers to new letter-sound correspondences and high-frequency words. Along the way, they also introduce memorable characters, exciting adventures, and the foundational elements of literary fiction.

Set A Includes:

Set B Includes:

View Samples and Summaries

Click on the button below to read sample books from each box and view the book Summaries Chart. The Jump Rope Readers Summaries Chart offers a closer look at the engaging storylines in the books and important details about opportunities to practice phonics skills across the series. We suggest that you review this information to make choices about which sets you will use in your classrooms and whether you might want additional sets of certain boxes to allow more than 6 students at a time to access any given set within the series. The book summaries also convey the spirit of the Jump Rope Readers series, depicting a dynamic, inclusive, urban neighborhood and the diverse families who live there.

Series Introduction Videos from the Authors

Ordering Information

The links below offer the online ordering options for the Jump Rope Readers. Please be sure to reach out to your local Heinemann sales rep to discuss your purchasing options.

Additional Purchasing Options

Individual Series Sets

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Jump Rope Readers - A Series of High-Quality Decodable Books from Lucy Calkins and Colleagues

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The newest addition to Scholastic's "Science of Reading" collection is an early literacy handbook written by a teacher for teachers. This book is about decoding and phonics. Lindsey uses her impeccable body of research to create a powerful translational work interpreting reading science. She employs a scaffolded approach to teaching foundational skills, starting with decoding and oral language, moving through phonemic awareness and sound-spelling knowledge, and ending with fluency. Of particular value is the focus on bridging to practice: activities and lessons presented here can be used immediately in the classroom. The book is predicated on the "Essential Instructional Swap" of substituting ineffective activities for more effective, evidence-based routines. For example, "Fewer Rhymes, More Phonemes" and "Less Pointing to Text in Predictable Books, More Engaging in Shared Reading." The depth of research backing this text cannot be overstated. Lindsey refers to the findings of meta-analyses throughout, and the book sports a beefy and current reference section. VERDICT This title can be used as a handbook for professional educators; its clear organization and focused language will be useful for early literacy teachers.-Jennifer Townesα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

" Reading Above the Fray is a wonderful resource, a book I read from cover to cover. The scholarship is impeccable, citing the central and most impactful studies surrounding foundational skills and their importance to reading acquisition. Authored by a passionate educator, the book is rich in stories, lessons, activities, and ideas. It is a joy to read and will become a well-worn guide for teachers and students of reading!"Book Smart: How to , Julia masterfully connects the deep research base on how kids learn to read to what teachers can do tomorrow in their classrooms. What I love even more about the book is her focus on the joy of helping students develop the tools they need to achieve reading success."

- ANNE E. CUNNINGHAM, Professor, Learning Sciences and Human Development, University of California, Berkeley; author of Develop and Support Successful, Motivated Readers Letter Lessons and First Words: Phonics Foundations That Work

"This book speaks to something near and dear to my heart-the power of early literacy to lead to lifelong learning and immeasurable opportunities. With clarity and precision, Dr. Lindsey cuts through the distracting noise around reading instruction. Her book should be required reading in preservice and inservice programs. With it, we can chart a course forward to literacy for all."

- SHARIF EL-MEKKI, Chief Executive Officer, Center for Black Educator Development

"One of the best books I've read on decoding and phonics. With passion for teaching, Dr. Lindsey interprets reading science in ways that are directly transferable to the classroom. Her book is chock full of techniques, activities, and strategies-a veritable 'go-to' resource. This is exactly the kind of translational work the field needs!"

- SUSANNE NOBLES, Chief Academic Officer, ReadWorks

"Accessible, timely, and easy to use, this is a book that needed to be written for teachers, literacy coaches, and school administrators looking to develop efficient and effective literacy instruction. Dr. Lindsey simplifies the complexities of foundational skills instruction, synthesizes research by bridging it to practice, and provides routines that can be implemented the very next day. I predict it will become a primary resource that educators return to time and again."

- REBECCA MILES, Early Literacy Consultant and Coach Coordinator, Berrien Regional Educational Service Agency

"If you think a professional book about decoding and foundational skills can't be engaging, think again! Dr. Lindsey artfully combines wit, wisdom, and classroom realism with evidence-based routines that we can implement immediately. Most important, she centers each chapter on children, calling us to value and build upon the strengths, perspectives, and cultural assets they bring. This book is a win for educators and, by extension, the children and families they serve!"

- ANNIE PETROZZELLI SPEAR, Literacy Specialist, Consultant, and Author

"Elementary teachers have been waiting for this one! Dr. Lindsey explains not only the 'why' behind the essential elements of decoding, but also provides explicit guidance and routines to help any teacher swap out ineffective practices for more effective and efficient research-based ones. She makes it easy to align instruction to reading science
and teach 'above the fray.'"

- KATHARINE NOONAN, English Language Arts Instructional Coach, District of Columbia Public Schools
- HEIDI ANNE MESMER, Professor of Literacy Education, Virginia Tech; author of Reading Above the Fray

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