Journeys Reading Program First Grade
Learning to read is an excursion into the unknown. It's about meeting challenges head-on and gaining confidence with each victory. Preparing students for this voyage requires a program that lets teachers introduce the right discoveries at the right time. When things begin to line up, you can see confidence start to shine in students' eyes.Journeys is a comprehensive K-6 English language arts program. It provides an instructional system for reading both literature and informational texts, for acquiring foundational skills, and for developing mastery of speaking, listening and writing. Student texts promote deep reading.Anchor text reading instruction challenges students well beyond their first encounter. A special three-part routine guides students to grasp big ideas, then analyze short passages, and finally undertake independent close reading.The Student eBook guides students to highlight and make notes about the answers and evidence they are learning to gather.Trade Books provide a backdrop for project-based learning and give students the opportunity to apply what they have been learning to extended texts.
A wide range of texts meet all students at their level.Journeys Leveled Readers for Guided Reading, by Irene Fountas, allow students to get individualized practice alongside the core coursework.Complete solutions for Tier I, II, and III intervention to reinforce skills, scaffold instruction, and teach key foundational skills.Strategic language support for English learners provides integrated support and scaffolds for every lesson, plus five days of additional instruction to develop language skills, all enabling ELs to engage with core instruction. Practical, powerful assessments keep teachers informed and students prepared.A comprehensive assessment system (including weekly tests, benchmark assessments, and unit tests) gives teachers the tools they need to monitor student progress.The online dashboard gives teachers visibility into the progress of their class, providing the insights they need to develop customized lesson plans.Tech-enhanced questions like drag-and-drop and multi-select allow students to prepare for high-stakes assessment formats.
I have had a ton of email questions wanting to know what I use for assessments with the Journeys reading series. This is the main complaint I am hearing:Students cannot do the tests independently because they are too hard.The vocabulary that they put on the tests does not match the story vocabulary. They haven't learned those words yet unless they walk in your door reading on a second grade or higher level.
Some of the answers are too long for beginning first graders to read. They get tired and frustrated.The assessments that are included in the 'Grab-and-Go' resources are broken into: phonics, comprehension, and vocabulary. If you do all of these, you have used at least 3 pages for each test (some of them are longer.) The paper copying starts adding up.I created an assessment pack to address these issues. Just curious-do you still use Journeys or any other basal program?
Journeys Reading Book 2nd Grade
I've been teaching first grade for 17 years and all of the sudden basal seems like it's a dirty word. Everything is read aloud with vigorous texts.
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Just wondering if I'm the only one who still sees value in rereading the same texts for multiple days and in students having the book in their hands. I don't follow the program, but miss the cohesiveness of having a topic for whole group reading, small group reading, and writing that allowed students to make connections and grapple with a text they could (for the most part) read themselves.