Program Components
Teacher Resource Books
El poder de la lectura™ is a program of seven curated collections of student books, each with a comprehensive Teacher Resource Book.
Text Study Units Support
- Decoding and word recognition
- Vocabulary
- Content knowledge and text structure
- Fluency
- Comprehension
- Writing
- Word building.
Each Text Study Units build on students’ existing knowledge to create new knowledge networks. The units consist of explicit teaching instruction and comprehensive learning activities related to the books. They offer opportunities for students to read the texts, comprehend what they read, write about the topic, and build word knowledge.
Student Books
- Student texts are ideal for decoding, fluency practice, and building content knowledge.
- The books are paired texts (one informational and one narrative). Each pair is supported by a text study unit.
- Each collection of books is organized into topic sets.
Collection One
Includes 1 Teacher Resource Book and 168 Student Texts (six copies each of 28 titles). Text study units include Animals, Habitats, People and Animals, and What People Do.
Collection Two
Includes 1 Teacher Resource Book and 158 Student Texts (six copies each of 26 titles). Text study units include Animals, Plants, People and Animals, The Environment, and How People Live.
Collection Three
Includes 1 Teacher Resource Book and 216 Student Texts (six copies each of 36 titles). Text study units include Animals, Habitats, Living with Technology, Living in Our World, and Health and Fitness.