Boldprint Kids - Year 1 Teacher Resource Pack

Boldprint Kids' Teacher Resource Books are practical, conversational, easy to navigate guides to each Boldprint Kids book. They provide detailed, guided instruction in a three-day approach to assessing the text, revisiting the text and reading for fluency. They also contain vocabulary building, comprehension and summative assessment worksheets.

• scaffolded literacy support for dependent readers
• carefully developed guided reading strategies for working with each of the selections in a book, so that every child moves towards proficiency as a reader and a writer with authentic texts during the reading process
• annotated suggestions for connected read aloud books for shared reading and levelled books for independent reading
• enrichment activities for interconnecting the selections in each selection
• blackline masters for supporting the key literacy strategies in each selection
• literacy support for sentence and story building for interactive writing
• assessment strategies and techniques for diagnosing and implementing effective interventions for literacy achievement.

David Booth is Professor Emeritus in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, where he is Scholar in Residence in the Curriculum, Teaching, and Language Department. For over 40 years, he has been involved in teaching children and teachers, as a classroom teacher, language arts consultant, professor, speaker, and author, and has worked with teachers and administrators throughout Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and Asia. Larry Swartz has been a classroom teacher, literacy consultant, and drama consultant during his twenty five years with a school district. Currently, he is an instructor as well as the principal of continuing education courses at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

Suitable for Lower Primary teachers.

Boldprint Kids is a series of highly visual magazine-style fiction and non-fiction readers for lower primary students. Each student book is levelled and scaffolded towards a more challenging text.

The Boldprint series applies a variety of literacy strategies including phonological awareness, letter and word recognition, comprehension, fluency, writing and literature connections. These scaffolded instructional strategies, help young students move toward proficiency as readers and writers.