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Orchard Language Arts K- 3




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Give your child a head start in learning

These full-fledged curriculum programs can carry your child from Kindergarten to 3rd grade language arts - with titles used in and proven by thousands of schools across the country. Give your child a head start in their love of learning with hundreds of activities that not only address a wide range of primary skills and concepts, but also make the process engaging and fun.

Features

  • 27 great programs.
  • 480 lessons and activities that cover primary Language Arts skills from Kindergarten to 3rd Grade.
  • Direct instruction in phonics.
  • Vocabulary and reading comprehension—along with literature-based reading and writing activities.
  • Grade-specific preparation for state and national standardized tests.


Titles

Phonemic Awareness: Level A
Provides instruction on consonants, vowels, digraphs, word families, and difficult consonants.

Phonemic Awareness: Level B
Allows students to master more consonants, blends, vowels, digraphs, and dipthongs .

Phonemic Awareness: Level C
Ensures mastery and retention in the following letter-sound relationships: consonants, consonant blends, vowel digraphs and dipthongs, and consonant digraphs and dipthongs.

Vocabulary Builder K
Uses repeated exposure to enhance students’ vocabulary development.

Vocabulary Builder 1
Introduces words in meaningful contexts and provides bimodal (aural-visual) word presentation.

Vocabulary Builder 2
Introduces new vocabulary words in meaningful sentence contexts, and offers students opportunities to preview word lists, practice words, and take spelling tests to ensure word mastery.

Vocabulary Builder 3
Facilitates spelling and word recognition improvement through varied and interactive encounters with new words.

Guided Comprehension 1
Teaches critical reading comprehension skills including identifying the main idea, vocabulary, predicting outcome and sequencing.

Guided Comprehension 2
Develops critical thinking skills, including comparing/contrasting, fact/opinion, cause/effect and reasoning.

Guided Comprehension 3
Utilizes a multi-step, guided reading approach to teach students how to identify the setting, speaker, and author’s purpose..

Language Concepts K-2
Letters, Sounds, & Words – Students learn the letters of the alphabet and explore sound patterns.
Prewriting – Students explore organization of writing through the use of graphic organizers and prompts.

Reading for Comprehension: Beginning
Hone in on reading comprehension skills such as predicting outcome, drawing conclusions, cause/effect and making inferences as student recovers sunken treasures.

Phonics Sequences A
Empowers early and emergent readers to increase decoding and word recognition skills.

Phonics Sequences B
Helps students make lasting connections between letter-sound correspondences and understand their importance in spelling and reading

Phonics Sequences C
Uses a systematic and explicit approach to teach students how to form words phonetically and then use them in sentences and paragraphs.

Phonics Sequences D
Introduces students to letters, key sounds, and blends, as well as how to transfer their learning to read sight words, sentences, and paragraphs.

Language Concepts K-2
Parts of Speech & Sentences – Sentence structure and style are the focus of these activities.
Punctuation – Students learn about various types of punctuation such as periods, commas, apostrophes, and more.

Language Concepts K-2
Writing and Editing – Students identify the topic and main idea, then compose and edit sentences and stories using grammar, usage, and mechanical conventions.

Reading & Writing Strategies 1-3
Improves sentence construction, writing strategies, reading strategies, and resource skills.

Spelling Buzz: Beginning
Students are introduced to various spelling rules, practice through engaging activities, and test their knowledge with motivational spelling bee contests.

Reading Links 1
Helps develop students’ fluency skills, and serves as a bridge between phonics and comprehension instruction.

Reading Links 2
Teaches reading and writing skills through 11 carefully developed, sequential lessons; emphasis on comprehension strategies, such as making predictions or answering open-ended questions.

Reading Links 3
Provides students with the multiple exposures to text necessary for fluency development through carefully developed integrated language activities.

Reading Links 4
Builds the essential reading skill of fluency through correlated speaking, reading, and writing activities progressing in a specific order.

Reading Links 5
Impacts students’ word recognition, fluency, and comprehension skills through significant and positive guidance.

 
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