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AR Book List
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 Reading
The Hardcourt Brace Trophies series is the School Board
of Alachua County's adopted text for reading in grades K-12. All students at
Glen Springs receive reading instruction through this series. Our staff
provides differentiated instruction at a variety of levels.
Reading instruction focuses upon:
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Phonemic awareness - the understanding that spoken words
are made of individual sounds (primary grades) |
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Explicit systematic phonics - consisting of word
blending, building, decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling) (primary
grades) |
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Fluency - reading with speed, accuracy and expression |
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Vocabulary - a key component in students' reading
comprehension |
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Explicit text comprehension strategies |
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Reading aloud to students |
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Rich listening experiences that build understanding of
language structures and texts |
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Developing listening skills |
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Guiding student in speaking and making presentations |
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Using reference sources to develop research reports and
other informational projects (intermediate grades) |
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Writing
| Daily, teacher led, group writing, based on a reading or personal
experience to make the reading/writing connection, in expository and narrative
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| Daily, individual writing practice for a variety of occasions,
audiences, and purposes (journals, lists, letters, notes, picture
stories, etc.) |
| Integrate writing in all curriculum areas. |
| Expand language by emphasizing adverbs, adjectives, modeling
rich language from trade books, as well as modeling varied sentence structure. |
| Teach organizational skills to logically sequence three (3) supporting
details in a paragraph. |
| Emphasize the sound/letter correlation (initially accept invented
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By the end of first grade students should write a five
(5) sentence paragraph with a beginning sentence, three logically sequenced
detail sentences with some elaboration, and a concluding sentence, approximating
conventional spelling and other conventions such as capitalization and punctuation.
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Math Emphasis in
First grade is placed on providing hands-on activities
which help children engage in meaningful practice, ie "doing math".
All classes include daily problem solving
experiences using a variety of manipulatives and strategies.
Students should be able to verbalize the solutions to these problems using
the language of math.
Data analysis and measurement should be
incorporated as frequently as possible in social studies and science, as
well as in the daily problem solving activity.
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Science
Science activities are correlated to the Harcourt Reading
Trophies series, with hands-on experiments and demonstrations being used as
often as possible to teach the Sunshine State Standards for science.
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