Yellow – year 4

CSI Literacy kits are designed for teachers who have a range of levels in their class and want to teach reading strategies everyone can use, no matter their level.

With a CSI Literacy kit, you’ve got the keys to unlocking the potential of all your students, regardless of ability. With CSI Literacy kits, you’ll create a learning community, so all your students can work together at their year level to achieve real reading results.

This Kit Contains:

• Lesson Plan Book
  • 5 introductory lessons and 40 comprehensive lesson plans for teaching of fiction (including poetry) and non-fiction texts (including numeracy, science and social studies)
  • Support for teachers including research citations; levelling information; and approaches for struggling readers, English Language Learners (ELLs) and boys
  • Classroom management and scheduling options
  • Assessment rubrics for reading, language, writing and oral language (for both fiction and non-fiction text
• Texts for Shared and Modelled Reading Book
  • 45+ levelled shared-reading texts in a teacher book to support whiteboard texts
• 15 Co-operative Learning Activities books – in each…
  • 40 texts (8 non-fiction, 8 numeracy, 8 fiction, 8 science and 8 social studies) with corresponding co-operative activities
    • take a look inside here for an example of a couple of the texts
  • Co-operative literacy learning supports pupils to “do today what was modelled and discussed yesterday” (the gradual release of responsibility model)
  • Glossed academic vocabulary words to build vocabulary
• 15 Blank transparencies and 15 erasable markers
  • Students can place transparencies over the co-operative texts and use the pens to annotate the texts, working co-operatively and using their oral language skills to share their reflections
• 1 Sample Reflection Journal
  • 40 unique graphic organisers individually designed for each text to consolidate student learning through writing and to provide a record of student progress
  • Templates for individual written reflection
  • Rubrics for self-assessment and building metacognition