Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters Teachers's Guide, Don Johnston Ltd.

Teacher Material

Beginning Literacy Framework Time-saving teacher materials come with every Start-to-Finish® Literacy Starters set and include useful getting started information, as well as planning and instructional tools to help teachers effectively use Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters to supplement existing reading curriculum. It is easy to access the teacher materials because they are provided in a printed and electronic format.

Teacher's Guide and Teacher Materials CD
The teacher's guide and the teacher materials CD include a wealth of information to get started with Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters — you'll find the technical information needed to use the computer books and supplemental teacher materials, blackline masters for teacher and pupil tools, as well as instructional ideas for:

• Building Vocabulary

• Always Activities for before, during and after reading

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Strategies for reading effectively with pupils using each text type
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A separate teacher materials CD includes electronic files for all of the blackline masters, story-specific vocabulary cards and graphics. In addition, story text and graphics can automatically be installed into Don Johnston's Write:OutLoud® eText and Pictures folders and BuildAbility® Images folder for use with extension activities.

Intervention Planning Tool
The Intervention Planning Tool provides teachers with a way to assess pupils' reading skills and plan interventions to move pupils forward in the areas of:

• Concepts About Print

• Alphabetic Principle

• Oral Language

• Phonological Awareness
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Vocabulary Cards
Each book has a matching set of vocabulary cards to support the type of text represented in the book (Emergent, Transitional and Conventional). Emergent and Transitional vocabulary cards support building oral language and the Conventional vocabulary cards help pupils build sight word vocabulary. Ideas for increasing readers' vocabulary and using the cards are included in the "Building Vocabulary" section of the teacher's guide.

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Reading Chart
Giving pupils as many opportunities to read is critical for pupils beginning to read. With the reading chart, pupils can keep track of all the books they've read, the format they used (computer book or paperback book), who they read them with, whether they liked the book and future reading plans. Beginning Literacy Framework

Reading Volume and Reading Preferences Graphs
Teachers and pupils can see the progress they have made by graphing the data from the reading chart. This graph is provided as a blackline master and a Microsoft® Excel template.

Book Talk Communication Board
Book Talk is a communication display that beginning readers can use to discuss books before, during and after reading. It provides beginning readers an opportunity to actively participate in their reading experience. This overlay is available as a blackline master and a PDF file on the teacher materials CD.

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eText & Story Pictures
Separate text files for use with Write:OutLoud® contains all the text for each of the Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters sets. This allows teachers to accommodate the special requirements of students whose disabilities may require or benefit from an alternate format, like a larger font size or a different background color.

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Story-specific graphics are provided on the teacher materials CD so students have familiar graphics for extension activities.