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Where can I see sample lesson plans for each book?

Yes, we offer book-by-book instructional guides for both foundational skills and close reading instruction. You can access free, digital samples on our Instructional Materials page. These samples include two E-Books from each series along with their corresponding Foundational Skills and Close Reading Teacher's Guides.

 

What is the difference between the Foundational Skills Teacher's Guides and the Close Reading Teacher's Guides?

Our Foundational Skills Teacher’s Guides support teachers in delivering evidence-aligned, explicit, and systematic instruction that models, scaffolds, and releases to students the skills, strategies, and processes required for automatic, fluent word recognition connected to meaning.

Our Close Reading Teacher’s Guides support teachers in delivering explicit and systematic instructional experiences that focus on modeling, guiding, and releasing to students the skills, strategies, and processes required for language comprehension and for making meaning from text, including the ability to construct and extract meaning from text and integrate meaning derived from one text to another. 

We offer a scope and sequence for both our Foundational Skills and Close Reading instruction, which present a clear illustration of their respective literacy and language development emphases.

More detailed information about what each type of instruction includes is located within each series' Overview on the Implementation Resources page.

 

What should I purchase for First Grade?

We strongly recommend placing students in our books and instruction based on their skills, not by their grade level. Student skills can be identified using our Placement Assessment or existing student data. We recommend that you compare students’ foundational skills knowledge with Flyleaf’s Foundational Skills Scope & Sequence. Locate the specific point within the Scope & Sequence that corresponds to the skill level of each student. Then, group your students accordingly and make purchasing decisions based on the range of skills identified.

Flyleaf is designed to align with the developmental progression of skills and strategies outlined in the Spectrum of Literacy. Our color-coded Spectrum of Literacy represents a continuum of early literacy development and makes a visual connection between our products and our Foundational Skills and Close Reading Scope & Sequences.

You can use this as guidance along with your professional judgement to select the series that best fits your student needs. For general grade level guidelines for each series, please see the following:

Emergent Reader Series products: For Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grade 1, or Intervention

• • Emergent Reader Series | Book Set (41 Titles)
  • Emergent Reader Series | Foundational Skills Teacher's Guide
  • Emergent Reader Series | Close Reading Teacher's Guide
  • Emergent Reader Series | Classroom Set

Reading Series One products: For Grade 1 or Intervention

• • Reading Series One | Book Set (10 Titles)
  • Reading Series One | Foundational Skills Teacher's Guide
  • Reading Series One | Close Reading Teacher's Guide
  • Reading Series One | Classroom Set

Reading Series Two products: For Grade 1 and Grade 2 or Intervention

• • Reading Series Two | Book Set (19 Titles)
  • Reading Series Two | Foundational Skills Teacher's Guide
  • Reading Series Two | Close Reading Teacher's Guide
  • Reading Series Two | Classroom Set

What should I purchase for small group instruction?

Our Shop/Quote page organizes materials into Small Group and Whole Group Classroom Set options. To view the instructional materials included in each series Classroom Set, select the Classroom Set button for the series you are interested in purchasing. If you are unsure of which series to select, the following resources may support you in determining which will best support your students' needs:

• Our Spectrum of Literacy page will summarize the skills, strategies, and processes that are systematically and explicitly taught within each series.
• Our Instructional Materials page provides sample lesson plans, sample books, and assessment information by series.

 

What should I purchase for a student learning English (ELL)?

To build a foundation in English, we recommend starting with the Emergent Reader Series:

• Emergent Reader Series | Book Set (41 Titles)
• Emergent Reader Series | Foundational Skills Teacher's Guide
• Emergent Reader Series | Close Reading Teacher's Guide

You may use our interactive Spectrum of Literacy to view a summarization of the skills, strategies, and processes that are systematically and explicitly taught in Flyleaf's Foundational Skills and Close Reading Teacher's Guide instruction across all series. Click on any color band to preview a summary of that portion of our Scope & Sequences.

Below you will find more in-depth information about the Emergent Reader Series Foundational Skills and Close Reading Teacher's Guides:

Emergent Reader Series Foundational Skills Guide instruction is designed to support teachers in helping students connect spelling and pronunciation with oral language and to provide the explicit and systematic phonics instruction and practice students need to progress in their word-reading skills. The instruction follows research recommendations that phonemic awareness, decoding, spelling, and word recognition instruction be well coordinated with each other and text (Brady 2012).

Emergent Reader Series Close Reading Teacher’s Guide instruction supports teachers in focusing student attention on the interplay between all elements of comprehension, e.g., What do the words say? What do the vocabulary, the punctuation, and the illustrations convey? What can we infer from the text and illustrations and how does that deepen our understanding of the text? What does the text make us wonder about? The habits that are modeled include thinking and talking about text, deliberate and controlled reflection on understanding, and detecting and correcting comprehension problems. The progression of instruction provided in carefully developed text dependent questions follows the gradual release of responsibility framework (Pearson and Gallagher 1983).

 

Where can I find a list of books for each series?

The books are listed in the order they appear in instruction on our Foundational and Close Reading Scope and Sequences.

 

Why are there repeat book titles?

Reading Series One serves as a vital bridge within the Flyleaf Program, linking the Emergent Reader Series and Reading Series Two. While it does not repeat books from the Emergent Reader Series, it offers companion texts that allow students to apply their skills in more challenging contexts. This series features longer, more complex texts with robust vocabulary and sentence structures, providing opportunities for students to enhance their reading stamina, fluency, and prosody. Reading Series One provides more instances of multisyllabic words, opportunities to build morphemic awareness, and longer stories, preparing students for Reading Series Two, where they encounter new language and literacy concepts and complexities.

With this in mind the Companion Books are labeled as such within the Emergent Reader Series.