Course III Teachers Guide.pdf - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

DESTINATION READINGGETTING STARTED 2As you integrate Destination Reading into your classroom, consider theother tools and resources you use for instruction, modeling, practiceand application. Instructional tutorials, practice games, and applicationactivities can be assigned together to provide a connected instructionalsequence or they can be assigned separately on different days tocoincide with other activities in the classroom. Consider also theimplementation strategy you might use for Destination Reading.Instruction and Modeling lend themselves to whole class, small group,or individual learning experiences. Practice and application activitiesare best integrated into either small group or individual experience sostudents can gain independence with the material through personal orcollaborative hands-on experience.The following example illustrates how this sequence of instruction is built into Destination Reading.Word StudyVocabulary development is an important pathway to reading comprehension. Without word knowledge and the strategiesto analyze words, students are not able to accomplish the goal of making meaning from connected texts. Knowledge ofindividual words and groups of related words is correlated with a student’s knowledge of a subject because wordsexpress concepts, ideas, and knowledge.By using vocabulary strategies, students can become more independent readers because they can learn new words innew contexts. Students who have developed large vocabularies that they can use in diverse contexts are better readersthan those with more restricted vocabularies. But the meanings of individual words are of little use on their own becausewords are usually not used in isolation. This is why Destination Reading presents six to nine learner vocabulary words ineach unit in the context of a short passage. The meanings of individual words are important for readers when they arecombined with other words in a context, and are even more important when readers can use them across contexts.Destination Reading uses the targeted six to nine vocabulary words at least twice in each unit—once in a short passageto introduce the words and a second time in the strategic reading passage.