The Materials
In addition to a classroom library, Plugged-in to Nonfiction also provides you with all the teacher and student materials you need.
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Teacher Guide
The Teacher Guide includes everything you need to prepare for your
Plugged-in to Nonfiction lessons:
- A Program Implementation Guide: “Make It Real”
- Summary pages for every book in the collection
- Core Text Implementation Guide with Lesson Guides for teachable moments in five instructional strands (reading, word study, writing, inquiry, and assessment) and visual references to the supporting graphic organizers, assessments, and activities
- How to Run Power Strategy Groups, Dr. Allen’s easy-to-use guide for establishing collaborative reading/writing groups
- Additional Resources, including a matrix of the skills and strategies taught in the program, a glossary of special terms, a selected bibliography of the research base for the program, answer key, pre- and post-assessments, and a student survey
- The Program Implementation Guide covers all aspects of using the program in your classroom:
- How to organize your lessons
- How to implement suggested weekly schedules for traditional and block schedules
- How to use Plugged-in to Nonfiction’s resources
- How to use Plugged-in to Nonfiction’s formative and summative assessments
- How to adjust instructional focus to meet the needs of diverse learners
- Guidance on classroom, resource, and time management
Resource Materials
The Resource Materials include reproducible versions of all the graphic organizers, handouts, and student activities required to implement Plugged-in to Nonfiction.
The Resource Materials also include reproducibles of test-taking strategies that are embedded in each Core Text guide, authentic assessments for each Power Strategy Group book, and the summative and formative assessments for each book in the program, modeled after high-stakes tests. These assessments allow you to evaluate both student achievement and student interest. Also included are pre- and post-assessments, as well as a student survey for each title, and Text-to-Text Connections. Text-to-Text Connections are timely and stimulating pieces support students as they make connections between the target nonfiction text and other works of nonfiction or fiction, and are provided for all books in Plugged-in to Nonfiction.
Power Strategy Learning Guides
The Power Strategy Learning Guides were designed to allow your students to participate in the modeled lesson and continue practicing one of the eight Power Strategies through guided and independent practice with a partner.
Through the Power Strategy Learning Guides, teachers will:
- Introduce and model the power strategy lesson
Through the Power Strategy Learning Guides, students will:
- Discover applications for the Power Strategy
- Explore nonfiction text using the Power Strategy
- Complete group projects for authentic assessment
- Practice the Power Strategy with peers
- “Now you are in charge!” guides students through the text
- “Go high tech!” provides technology challenges
- Multiple-choice and open-ended assessment
- A Letter to the Reader introduces the book and hooks the student’s interest.
- The Anticipation activity builds on prior knowledge.
- A Specialized Vocabulary activity promotes specific vocabulary development.
- Reading for Information ensures understanding.
- A Writing activity extends comprehension and promotes the use of specialized vocabulary.
- The Text-to-Text Connections section links the book to another work of nonfiction or fiction.
- An Inquiry activity extends learning beyond the book.
- Multiple-choice and open-ended assessment questions, modeled after high-stakes assessments, provide guided practice for state and national tests, including the SAT.
Independent Reading Guides
The Independent Reading Guides include everything your students need to explore the high-interest nonfiction books that they choose for independent reading.
