Building Upon Foundational Skills
At grades 4 and 5, students make a lot of transitions, including a shift from learning to read to reading to learn. Students now apply the foundational skills they have learned to new vocabulary and more complex text as they read a variety of media across content areas. Development of word analysis skills enables them to read with increasing automaticity, freeing up cognitive resources for higher-order reading processes such as comprehension.
Lifetime Skills for Reading Success
Open Court Reading Word Analysis Kits develop critical reading skills that enable students to approach new words and more complex texts with ease by:
- Learning about morphemes, the smallest units of meaning, and how they are used to identify new words and build vocabulary
- Focusing on prefixes, suffixes, and base words individually and in context
- Reading a variety of passages at progressive levels for practice in reading independently
- Focusing on vocabulary and fluency
Systematic Teaching, Systematic Learning
Open Court Reading Word Analysis Kits use the same familiar systematic teaching and learning approaches used throughout the program, including:
- A logical progression of skills to reinforce students’ reading development
- An introduction of new skills while simultaneously reinforcing those previously taught
- Ongoing reinforcement of concepts and skills at every level
Student Resources
Dig into our student resources for a variety of practical and useful samples of the Open Court Reading program.
KIT RESOURCES
- Sound/Spelling Wall Cards
- Small-Group Sound/Spelling Cards
- Sound/Spelling Individual Cards (4 sets)
- Leveled Reading Cards
- Word Cubes
- English Learner Photo Cards
Sound/Spelling Cards
The Sound/Spelling cards are designed to give your students the key to unlock the power of our written language. The Sound/Spelling Cards include 44 cards in each set featuring the letter and a picture on one side and spelling patterns on the back. The Cards represent the 44 most common sounds of the English language. The Sound/Spelling Cards come in three different sizes: Individual, Small-Group and Wall Cards. The digital Interactive Sound/Spelling Cards recite the Sound/Spelling Card Story and each picture illustrates a motion.
Reading Cards
Leveled reading cards for students at Approaching Level, On Level, and Beyond Level. Passages include prefixes, suffixes, roots, and base words in context, as well as practice in comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency.
Teacher Resources
Take a closer look at the many tools and resources to help build literacy in your classroom.
Teacher’s Guides
There is one volume of the Teacher’s Guide with instruction for the entire year. The research-based, explicit instruction, and modeling found in the Teacher’ Guide facilitates teaching foundational skills including: phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and word analysis. Each lesson includes support for differentiated instruction. The Teacher’s Guide is available in print and digital formats.
Assessment
Assessments measure students’ learning in key instructional areas such as phonics, fluency, and word analysis. These formative assessments help teachers plan differentiated instruction. The Annotated Assessment Teacher Edition/Blackline Master is available in print and digital formats.
Skills Practice
Skills Practice Annotated Teacher Edition/Blackline Master provides student practice in phonics and word analysis skills learned. The Skills Practice is available in print and digital formats.
Teacher Resource Book
Additional in-depth instruction in the Teacher Resource Book helps teachers reach at-risk students and English learners with full in-program intervention to support the content they are learning in class. Lesson-by-lesson instructional support for the core curriculum is implemented during small-group time. The Teacher Resource Book is available in print or digital format.
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