User-Friendly Teacher Manuals

User-friendly, comprehensive curriculum manuals offer coordinated lesson plans that encourage hands-on activities, use of cooperative learning groups and integration of other subjects wherever possible.Step-by-step teacher manuals provide:

• A Forward that outlines the Vision of the program.
• A Scope and Sequence chart so that users can see, at-a-glance, what units precede the current one as well as the ones that follow it.
• Student Performance Outcomes.
• A Unit Introduction including the State Standards that are addressed in the unit as well as curriculum correlations, and management and planning tools.
• Background Information for teachers.
• A Glossary of terms used throughout the unit.
• A Materials List for the unit.
• A Bibliography of literature and other resources that can be used to enhance the unit.
• Comprehensive Assessments, including performance-based tasks for the unit.
• Readings in the Content Area for Grades 3 through 6.
• Journal Pages, the blackline masters that comprise the written component for the students.
• Extensions and applications.
• Correlation and references to the Learning Standards.
• Home Connection letters that involve parents/guardians in the program.