SPRINT READING

Sprint Reading Teaching Plan

Each four-page Teaching Plan contains the support you need to provide students with direct reading instruction.

Summary
For each book, Teaching Plan provides a summary of plot and content. Each Book summary is divided into three parts. Use these parts as reading assignments for students.

Skills Chart
A convenient chart shows the targeted skills for each Teaching Plan.

ELL Support
Give English-language learners the additional instruction they need to acquire English fluency. Activities in social and oral language, as well as in idiomatic expressions, support students' reading. Culturally appropriate activities and academic language activities help ELL students gain access to unfamiliar text.

Build Background
Begin each plan by discussing a topic related to the book. Focus on activating students' prior knowledge. Help students realize that the more knowledge they bring to the text, the better they will be able to construct meaning from it. The section ends with a purpose-setting suggestion.

Develop Vocabulary
Introduce students to the vocabulary words from the reading selection. Then teach the vocabulary strategy to help students recognize unfamiliar words. The Student Workbook page for Vocabulary gives students practice using the vocabulary words and the strategy. Explain to students that recognizing these words will help them read and understand the book more easily.

Build Phonemic Awareness
These short phonemic awareness routines provide students with practice in manipulating individual sounds, or phonemes, within words.

Practice Phonics/Word Study
Introduce the phonics/word study strategy by using the activities in the Teaching Plan. Each plan contains systematic and explicit instruction in a phonics or word study strategy that will help students decode unfamiliar words. Give students practice using the strategy on the student workbook page. Note that phonics exemplar is included in the vocabulary list.


Sprint Reading Teaching Plan Each four-page Teaching Plan contains the support you need to provide students with direct reading instruction. Summary For each book, Teaching Plan provides a summary of plot and content. Each Book summary is divided into three parts. Use these parts as reading assignments for students. Skills Chart A convenient chart shows the targeted skills for each Teaching Plan. ELL Support Give English-language learners the additional instruction they need to acquire English fluency. Activities in social and oral language, as well as in idiomatic expressions, support students' reading. Culturally appropriate activities and academic language activities help ELL students gain access to unfamiliar text. Build Background Begin each plan by discussing a topic related to the book. Focus on activating students' prior knowledge. Help students realize that the more knowledge they bring to the text, the better they will be able to construct meaning from it. The section ends with a purpose-setting suggestion. Develop Vocabulary Introduce students to the vocabulary words from the reading selection. Then teach the vocabulary strategy to help students recognize unfamiliar words. The Student Workbook page for Vocabulary gives students practice using the vocabulary words and the strategy. Explain to students that recognizing these words will help them read and understand the book more easily. Build Phonemic Awareness These short phonemic awareness routines provide students with practice in manipulating individual sounds, or phonemes, within words. Practice Phonics/Word Study Introduce the phonics/word study strategy by using the activities in the Teaching Plan. Each plan contains systematic and explicit instruction in a phonics or word study strategy that will help students decode unfamiliar words. Give students practice using the strategy on the student workbook page. Note that phonics exemplar is included in the vocabulary list.