Each Student Book includes 12 units. The typical unit varies slightly for Get Ready! Sail and Get Ready! Soar, and is reflective of the children’s age and abilities.
Student watch the Connect to Theme video that introduces the unit theme.
In both volumes, the Connect to Language & Literacy section opens with Connect to Language. An engaging illustrated scene introduces students to vocabulary and functional language in context.
Vocabulary Tutorials provide practice and reinforcement.
Video Virtual Chat activities help develop listening and speaking skills.
In both volumes, this section features a fun, dramatic video that introduces students to short plays that develop language within real world contexts. The short plays help students make positive gains in oral reading fluency and reading skills.
Students watch a video with recurring characters.
An audio recording of the Reader’s Theater offers a model for presentation and fluency.
Video Virtual Chats encourage students to develop listening and speaking skills.
Both volumes provide systematic and explicit phonics instruction that is rooted in language transfer approaches. Get Ready! Sail has phonics appropriate to very young learners, as well as a page on high-frequency words. In Get Ready! Soar, the focus of this section is on phonics and spelling patterns.
Phonics Tutorials engage students with phonics explanations.
Audio activities reinforce new concepts.
Get Ready! Sail has phonics appropriate to very young learners, as well as a page on high-frequency words.
In Get Ready! Soar, the focus of this section is on phonics and spelling patterns.
Get Ready! Sail and Get Ready! Soar include a variety of reading genres, including poems, informational texts, biographies, mysteries, and science fiction. Students are given reading strategies, writing activities, and pair and group work that encourages communication.
Students follow along with an audio recording of the text. The recording provides a model for pronunciation and fluency.
Get Ready! Sail features a rhyme.
In Get Ready! Soar, the focus of this section is on phonics and spelling patterns.
In both volumes, each unit presents one or two grammar points followed by multiple opportunities to practice. Writing activities, as well as pair and group work, encourage communication.
Animated Grammar Tutorials engage students by pairing grammar rules with fun explanations.
The content sections—Math, Science, and Social Studies—focus on building academic literacy while cultivating English language development.
Students listen to audio recordings of the content-area texts.
Connect to Mathematics includes content and skills aligned with grade-level standards.
Connect to Science content is inquiry based and driven by grade-level Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
Connect to Social Studies includes content and skills aligned by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Ten Themes.
In Connect to Writing, a student model helps students learn how to write a variety of writing styles. Process writing steps guide them to complete and present their writing assignments.
Projects provides experiential ways for students to synthesize unit learning into concrete, creative, and engaging ways. They build on funds of knowledge and are able to promote cultural learning and response.
Students explore an authentic short film in Connect to Media, and are encouraged to use academic language to discuss the video’s form and content.
Students watch an authentic short film and learn to view media through a critical lens.
