Wonders ©2017

Grades K to 6

Wonders offers a connected suite of programs to support core English Language Arts (ELA) instruction, English Learners, Intervention, and a full and equitable parallel Spanish program. Make every instructional minute count as students move ahead efficiently, always focused on the same skills, strategies, and standards. Together, we can ensure literacy for life.

  

Components forWonders

Teacher’s Edition ©2017

Bring Wonders to life with comprehensive support and guidance for whole-group and small-group instruction. Teacher Editions provide point-of-use Access Complex Text supports, recommendations for reteaching, regrouping, and enriching, and more.

Reading/Writing Workshop ©2017

The Reading/Writing Workshop provides students with powerful systematic support for the close reading of short complex texts with core lessons all in one place.

Literature Anthology ©2017

With the Wonders Literature Anthology, students apply their skills and strategies to rich authentic text, with stories and informational selections. Students integrate knowledge by reading across texts using the anchor text and its paired selection for each week.  

Close Reading Companion

With the interactive Close Reading Companion, students learn to "read with pencil in hand" and "read about it", "think about it", "write about it," with partners or individually, using a powerful Read-Reread-Integrate routine that develops understanding across a body of connected texts.

Your Turn Practice Book 

Provides students with their first guided practice, with fresh reading selections every week. Students can underline, circle, and highlight text to support answers with text evidence.

Decodable Readers (Grades K-2)

These lesson cards provide scaffolded support for accessing complex text features, responding to text-dependent questions, and writing about reading.

Leveled Readers

Differentiated texts at four complexity bands (Approaching, On, Beyond, and ELL). Each reader features a main selection accompanied by a paired piece with the same theme. The selection of Leveled Readers provides coverage of multiple genres and literary and informational texts.

Leveled Reader Lesson Cards

These lesson cards provide scaffolded support for accessing complex text features, responding to text-dependent questions, and writing about reading.

Literature Big Books (Grades K–1)

Increase listening comprehension through read-alouds from rich, authentic texts, with stories and informational selections from award-winning authors and illustrators.

Unit Assessments ©2017

Comprised of shorter foundational skills assessments and comprehensive assessments, unit assessments ensure valid assessment of student performance and progress, aligned to standards and measured against grade-level rigor.

Benchmark Assessments ©2017

Assess progress toward end-of-year goals with benchmark assessments.

Placement and Diagnostic Assessments ©2017

Placement Assessments assist teachers in determining whether students are approaching, on, or beyond grade level or could be supported by intervention, while Diagnostic Assessments target foundational skills knowledge.

Wonders Student Weekly Assessments ©2017

“Fresh reads” offer students the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of weekly skills for the evaluation of comprehension skills, phonics, vocabulary, grammar, and more

Instructional Routine Handbook

Develop helpful habits and provide students with strategies and tools to achieve desired outcomes.

Language Transfers Handbook

Guidance for transfer of phonics, grammar, cognates, and other skills to the study of English.

Resources for Hands-On Learning

High-Frequency Word Cards

Support acquisition of high-frequency vocabulary.

Interactive Read-Aloud Cards (Grades K–2)

Engage students with read-alouds that develop listening comprehension using complex text and include a variety of genres—myths, fables, poems, expository texts, and more.

Photo Cards (Grades K–2)

Brightly colored picture cards to increase content area and domain-specific vocabulary.

Response Board

Colorful, laminated work boards with supplement sound- and word-recognition practice (write-on/wipe-off).

Retelling Cards (Grades K–2)

Full-color cards feature modeled and guided retelling of main selections.

Sound/Spelling Cards

Laminated cards support instruction in medial short-vowel sounds, final consonant sounds, and vowel variants.

Visual Vocabulary Cards

Full-color, photo-word cards introduce specific vocabulary for the week. They provide instructional support for phonics, vocabulary, and language development.

Workstation Activity Cards

Reinforce reading and language arts objectives, support collaborative conversations, and provide valuable science and social studies content with these creative learning center cards for small-group work.

Teaching Poster (Grades K–1)

Colorful, laminated posters (write-on/wipe-off) help you celebrate special days and reinforce concepts from instruction.



Classroom Trade Library

Support and extend learning with award-winning trade books, selected to provide extended readings of complex text across genres, themes, and concepts.

Classroom Trade Library Lesson Cards

Lessons to accompany each trade title, with support for the close reading routine and accessing complex text, with student activity pages and support for collaborative conversations.

Foundational Skills Kits(Grades 2–3 and 4–6)

The Foundational Skills Kits offers explicit instruction, practice, and assessment of phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, and word recognition to remediate identified gaps in skills.

The kit includes Foundational Skills Lesson Cards, Practice and Assessment Blackline Masters (BLMs), High-Frequency Word Cards, a Decodable Readers package, and many more interactive instructional components.

Wonders Leveled Reader Digital Library

Over 2,800 additional leveled reader titles available online. Search by grade, keyword, theme, genre, skill, Lexile level, and reading level. Easily assign leveled readers to a student or class.

Big Universe Digital Library

Over 14,000 authentic, leveled eBooks across grades K–12, in both English and Spanish. Powerful search functions identify texts by genre, reading level, or topic of interest, with cross-curricular support in science, social studies, and math.

English Language Newcomer Components

Although English language instruction is embedded within the core instruction—including callouts for Newcomer instruction—newcomers to the English language may need even more support.

Newcomer Teacher’s Guide

Provides instruction with three lessons for each conversation topic. Lessons build oral language skills and give students opportunities to communicate with teachers, peers, and their community.

Newcomer Lesson Cards

Designed to get students talking about school, home, and the world around them, using colorful illustrations and photographs to stimulate conversations. Each card presents a topic from the Newcomer Teacher’s Guide.

Wonders

Makes it easy to integrate your favorite resources or use our resources with your preferred approach or framework–including workshop-focused, blended learning, project-based learning, and authentic literature-focused.

Focuses on student-centered learning, small-group teaching, and mini-lessons with embedded support for English language learners, gifted and talented students, and students in need of Tier 2 support.

Provides resources and tools that meet students where they are and take them where they need to be, with resources in 100 percent print, 100 percent digital, or anywhere in between.

Bases instruction on research—and is dedicated to putting best practices into the daily routines of your classroom.

Research for Wonders

Wonders uses research-proven instruction and best practices to help students grow as readers, writers, and critical thinkers.

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