| Easy-to-Use and Ready-to-Go Units that Promote Differentiated Instruction and Integrated Technology for Grades 7-9 Students! - Inquiry Units to teach and practice reading comprehension strategies
- Book Club Units to promote meaningful classroom discussion and deepen comprehension
- Program and Planning Guide
- Writer's Handbook
- Web Support
All 12 Units: - are anchored by an Inquiry Question to give students a context and purpose for reading and to encourage them to think critically and delve into the topics deeper
- have a text-type writing study that is modelled with either a shared reading or a modelled text
- feature media texts
Student Engagement! - Relevant topics bring the real world into the classroom
- Voicing opinions, taking ownership of their ideas, and debating with peers is encouraged!
- Authentic media-rich texts will hook themdigital blogs, videos, radio shows, websites, posters, engaging books (including picture books)!
- All the texts (even the lowest levels) look and feel the same
- Stepping Up website
Teacher Support! - Meets all areas of the Language Arts curriculum: oral language, reading, writing, media literacy, word studyand includes the assessment pieces needed to monitor students' progress
- Introduce, teach, and practise reading comprehension strategies in manageable units
- Differentiated instruction made easyeach unit features texts at a range of levels
- Purposeful discussion promoted with Book Clubs
- Professional Development for modelled, shared, guided, and independent practice
- Stepping Up website
Media Texts are printed on Polyart®. Polyart is a unique synthetic paper that gives our media texts the look and feel of the real thingand is resistant to spills and tearing. This paper is highly durable and can withstand years of classroom use. Polyart is also easy on the environment (non-toxic and recyclable). | |
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357684520030920.000WSUBCATYNNYYNYNNYYNNNSCHTM & C 2009 SCHOLASTIC Canada Ltd. All rights reserved.Stepping Up with Literacy Place00000000000563SCH/LIST_ADD_TO_CART.GIF/IMAGES/SCH/CHECKOUT.GIFSCH/LIST_ADD_TO_CART.GIFSCH/CHECKOUT.GIFSCH/CHECKOUT.GIFTUES, 11-FEB-2025 18:39:33 GMT010000000101EDUCATION.SCHOLASTIC.CACStepping Up with Literacy Placelansaweb?srve=PRDLST+partition=PRX+F(LW3SFID)=1+F(LW3CATID)=563abc<!--CONTENT STORED LOCALLY--> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://education.scholastic.ca/images/jquery/jquery-1.4.2.min.js'> </script><script type='text/javascript'>&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;!-- function toggle_visibility(id) { var e = document.getElementById(id); if(e.style.display == 'block') e.style.display = 'none'; else e.style.display = 'block'; }//--&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;</script><div id='su_wrapper' style='width: 575px;'><div style='text-align: left;'><img alt='Stepping Up' src='http://education.scholastic.ca/images/SCH/stepping_up_images/su_logo.jpg' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;' /><span style='color: rgb(70, 90, 156); font-weight: bold; font-size: 24px; line-height: 145%;'>Easy-to-Use and Ready-to-Go Units that Promote Differentiated Instruction and Integrated Technology for Grades 7-9 Students!</span><br clear='all' /></div><div style='text-align: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;'> <ul style='padding-left: 35px; margin-bottom: 10px;'> <li><font size='2'><span style='color: rgb(70, 90, 156); font-weight: bold;'>Inquiry Units</span> to teach and practice reading comprehension strategies</font></li> <li><font size='2'><span style='color: rgb(70, 90, 156); font-weight: bold;'>Book Club Units</span> to promote meaningful classroom discussion and deepen comprehension</font></li> <li><font size='2'><span style='color: rgb(70, 90, 156); font-weight: bold;'>Program and Planning Guide</span></font></li> <li><font size='2'><span style='color: rgb(70, 90, 156); font-weight: bold;'>Writer's Handbook</span></font></li> <li><font size='2'><span style='color: rgb(70, 90, 156); font-weight: bold;'>Web Support</span></font></li> </ul> <span style='color: rgb(70, 90, 156); font-weight: bold;'> <font size='2'>All 12 Units:</font></span> <ul style='margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 35px;'> <li><font size='2'>are anchored by an Inquiry Question to give students a context and purpose for reading and to encourage them to think critically and delve into the topics deeper</font></li> <li><font size='2'>have a text-type writing study that is modelled with either a shared reading or a modelled text</font></li> <li><font size='2'>feature media texts</font></li> </ul></div><div style='clear: both; margin: 10px;'> </div><br /><br /><div style='border: 0px solid rgb(150, 141, 0); padding: 10px; float: left; margin-left: 15px; width: 525px; background-color: rgb(233, 216, 234); border-radius: 7px;'> <div style='text-align: center;'> </div> <div style='float: left; width: 245px;'> <font size='2'><span style='color: rgb(70, 90, 156); font-weight: bold;'>Student Engagement!</span></font> <ul style='margin-top: 2px; text-align: left; padding-left: 5px;'> <li><font size='2'>Relevant topics bring the real world into the classroom </font></li> <li><font size='2'>Voicing opinions, taking ownership of their ideas, and debating with peers is encouraged! </font></li> <li><font size='2'>Authentic media-rich texts will hook themdigital blogs, videos, radio shows, websites, posters, engaging books (including picture books)! </font></li> <li><font size='2'>All the texts (even the lowest levels) look and feel the same </font></li> <li><font size='2'>Stepping Up website</font> </li> </ul> </div> <div style='float: left; margin-left: 10px; width: 245px;'> <font size='2'><span style='color: rgb(70, 90, 156); font-weight: bold;'>Teacher Support!</span></font> <ul style='margin-top: 2px; text-align: left; padding-left: 5px;'> <li><font size='2'>Meets all areas of the Language Arts curriculum: oral language, reading, writing, media literacy, word studyand includes the assessment pieces needed to monitor students' progress </font></li> <li><font size='2'>Introduce, teach, and practise reading comprehension strategies in manageable units </font></li> <li><font size='2'>Differentiated instruction made easyeach unit features texts at a range of levels </font></li> <li><font size='2'>Purposeful discussion promoted with Book Clubs </font></li> <li><font size='2'>Professional Development for modelled, shared, guided, and independent practice </font></li> <li><font size='2'>Stepping Up website </font></li> </ul> </div> <br clear='all' /></div><br clear='all' /><table width='575' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0'><tbody><tr><td><div style='width: 278px; border: 1px solid rgb(148, 190, 229); margin: 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: left; float: left;'><img style='float: right; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;' alt='Polyarts Media Texts' src='http://education.scholastic.ca/images/SCH/shared_images/polyart_graphic.jpg' /><font size='2'>Media Texts are printed on <strong>Polyart®</strong>. <strong>Polyart</strong> is a unique synthetic paper that gives our media texts the look and feel of the real thingand is resistant to spills and tearing. 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