Course III Teachers Guide.pdf - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

DESTINATION READINGETTING STARTED21Planning and PacingDestination Reading Course III and Course IV, each consisting of 30 units (120 lessons), can easily be integrated into thecurriculum and each course can be covered in one school year. The programs can be used in their entirety, or segmentscan be selected to individualize instruction and to extend and enhance a basal course, as described below.Implementation ModelsDestination Reading has been designed so that content can be assigned in a number of ways to support individual needsand differing classroom schedules. Various approaches to implementation follow. In general, the computer time for thedaily sessions suggested below will fit easily into a class period. Note that assignments can be made to a specific studentor to a group. Groups can consist of the entire class or a subset of the class. (Note: For details on using the LearningManagement System to create and track assignments, see the Learning Management System User's Guide, located inthe LMS under the Resources tab.)Entire UnitsAssign students one unit per week for 30 weeks. Students can proceed through the program sequentially from Unit 1through 30, or units can be ordered based on specific criteria. For example, students can work on all the units that covera specific comprehension skill or strategy, such as Drawing Conclusions, before moving on to another batch of units thatfocus on a different strategy, such as Summarizing. The assignment criteria are listed below and can be found at glanceon the first page of each unit opener in this guide. Consult the Scope and Sequence chart, included in this guide(see pages 28 through 30), to select units that fit the criteria you choose.Criteria• Lexile level• Genre• Cross-curricular area• Theme• Comprehension strategy or skill• Vocabulary strategyThree different approaches to planning and pacing are described on the following pages.