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For those of you who use the Treasures series, how do you implement it with your GR block. The series basically has a short intro story to introduce on vocab (which is in the basal as well as a transparency), the main reading selection, and then a shorter connecting text.

I will be teaching departmentalized (flexibly grouped) reading classes to 3rd graders, with each class lasting 60 minutes.

I was thinking of structuring my time like this: (tell me what you think please).

Writing will be done outside of the 60 minute reading block.

Word Work - 15 minutes daily

Monday - word wall skills

Tuesday - using words you know part 1 ( 1 syllable words)

Wednesday - using words you know part 2 ( multi syllable words)

Thursday - Making Words - buiild

Friday - Making Words - sort and transfer; Reading writing complex rhymes

Guided Reading: 20 minutes Monday - Shared reading of 1st vocab story using guess the ...See More
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Christy On 6/30/08, deb wrote: > My concern with the schedule is that in a WHOLE day of > school how little kids are actually with real reading. > Allington and Cunningham talk a lot about time with text. > Your plan is not bad or good, it just is a time issue. Why > if school is 6 hours, aren't kids actually reading more? > Where is SSR?...See More
Jun 30, 2008
deb I missed the homerun time vs. the 60 minutes part. Sorry. I totally get the school tells us to do what we have to. I am trying to figure stuff out. deb
Jul 1, 2008
:o) Michele I am in the same boat as Christy, except I have 45 minutes of whole group and 45 min. of centers - required minutes, non-negotiable!!!!! (HATE IT for SOOOOO many reasons - don't even get me started!)

We are implementing Treasures for the first time this coming year (we have to get a new reading series every 5 years by state law) and every...See More
Jul 9, 2008
Christy We have the Treasure series too. This will be our 3rd year with it. They way that I adapted it in 2nd, and the way I hope to adapt it for 3rd is:

* use the vocabulary transparency masters to introduce/reinforce vacabulary instruction before guided reading by doing guess the covered word

* use the grammar transparencies as a minile...See More
Jul 12, 2008
Thelma Do you like the Treasures series? What do you like about it

On 6/29/08, Christy wrote: > For those of you who use the Treasures series, how do you > implement it with your GR block. The series basically has > a short intro story to introduce on vocab (which is in the > basal as well as a transparency), the main reading > sel...See More
Apr 13, 2009


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