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Woodbury City Public Schools Curriculum
Elementary Programs

Jason Vivadelli

PK - 5th Grade Curriculum & Instruction Supervisor
Phone: (856) 853-0123 Ext. 142
E-mail: jvivadelli@woodburysch.com

Description of Programs

Houghton Mifflin Reading

  • The skills and strategies taught in Houghton Mifflin’s “Reading”Anthology Series series are designed to promote reading achievement through a balanced, comprehensive approach, integrating strategy and skill instruction with motivating literature experiences.
  • Offers a variety of resources to meet the needs of all students through differentiated instruction, to build fluency, independence, and motivation for lifelong reading/writing success.

Scholastic Guided Reading

The Scholastic Guided Reading Program is a teacher-directed program designed to help students develop independent reading strategies so they may become confident and successful readers. Through leveled trade books and related teaching materials, the Guided Reading Program moves children toward the goal of being able to read a variety of texts with ease and deep understanding.

Instructional Content

  • Phonemic Awareness - Writing
  • Phonics - Motivation and Engagement
  • Fluency - Intervention Strategies
  • Vocabulary - Assessments
  • Comprehension

Benchmark Education Guided Reading

  • Early Connections grades K – 2
  • Navigators grades 3 – 5

Both programs include a comprehensive set of student and teacher resources designed to extend the philosophy and practice of balanced literacy instruction into the intermediate grades. The program provides a strong literacy framework that combines whole-group and small group instructional approaches for reading, writing, comprehension, and word analysis. Strategies are introduced and taught by an explicit, direct method that incorporates modeling, demonstrating, and coaching in group settings, as well as independent practice opportunities.

  • Students read developmentally appropriate nonfiction and fiction texts.
  • Practice comprehension and word solving strategies
  • Analyze the characteristics of different genres and text structures.
  • Appreciate literary forms, devices, and techniques
  • Use a wide range of text and graphic features
  • Use process writing steps to brainstorm topics, write, edit and revise, and publish
  • Express ideas through oral discussions and conversations.

Reading A to Z
www.readingatoz.com

  • Provides teachers and students with over 1800 titles of printable leveled reading books.
  • This exciting resource helps put books in every child’s hands for them to take home and keep as part of a growing personal library.

Writing A to Z
www.writingatoz.com

  • A comprehensive leveled writing program with writing lessons and exercises to teach writing process and improve students’ writing skills.

Study Island
www.studyisland.com

Study Island is a New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards web-based test preparation program. Currently the program is designed for use in grades 3 and 4 to prepare students for success on the NJ ASK 3 and 4 assessments in literacy and math. Students may also access Study Island from home on an Internet configured computer. Detailed reports provide parents, teachers, and student information about the student’s performance.

Lindamood

The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program successfully stimulates phonemic awareness. Individuals become aware of the mouth actions that produce speech sounds. This awareness becomes the means of verifying sounds with words and enables individuals to become self-correcting in reading, spelling, and speech.

Accelerated Reading

Students challenge themselves by selecting various leveled novels. After completing the reading the student takes a computerized assessment. A print out for the teacher is supplied to show strengths and weaknesses.

Everyday Mathematics

A comprehensive research-based program that provides consistent higher quality and a sequence of instruction that carefully builds upon and extends the knowledge and skills of the previous year.

  • Algebra and use of variables
  • Data and chance
  • Geometry and spatial sense
  • Measurement and measures
  • Numerators and order
  • Patterns, functions, and sequences
  • Operations
  • Reference Frames

Accelerated Math

A diagnostic tool used to see how well a student is progressing towards mastering the New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards for mathematics.

Interventions

  • Basic Skills Instruction: Grades 2 – 5
  • Basic Skills Instruction: In-Class Support K-1

Testing

  • DIBELS Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills): Grades K - 1
  • NJASK3: State Assessment Literacy and Math
  • NJASK4: State Assessment Literacy and Math
  • NJASK5: State Assessment Literacy and Math
  • Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)

 


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