Ready4Reading Evidence Portfolio
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o Bones? No Bones? ( Informational: Expand Knowledge): This text reviews information from the video and playfully expands on ideas about animals that do and do not have bones and spines. Students join Miss Page’s class and try to figure out which animals have bones and which do not. o Yikes! ( Realistic Fiction): The passage presents a realistic story inspired by the video. A boy is racing on his bike when he crashes and breaks his leg. Students follow the boy as he visits the doctor and gets help from his friends.
Program Activity Example #7 Methods for Helping Students Make Connections Across Topics
Ready4Reading also suggests ways to help children make connections across topics and texts and put their growing knowledge to use in new ways. For example, after reading Text Set 7: Bones, teachers remind students that in Text Set 5: It’s a Frog! , they learned how frogs develop, where frogs live, and how frogs survive. Teachers tell students that frogs (like people and snakes) are vertebrates because they have skeletons and spines. Educators then ask students how bones might help frogs move. The teacher guides a conversation about how bones help frogs leap, jump, and move fast to escape predators. The teacher also asks children to share ideas about how frogs’ bodies change from tadpoles to frogs. The teacher lets them know that tadpoles do not have bones. Bones develop as tadpoles begin to change into froglets.
Program Activity Example #8 Resources for Exploring Content Further
Once students finish reading texts, Ready4Reading offers resources to help students explore the book’s content further. For example, the Short Reads Decodables Teachers Guide documents compelling facts that can encourage students to read more about the text set’s topic. For example:
Card 14: Pop! Pop! Pop! o
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Popcorn can pop up to three feet in the air. o Americans eat about 17 billion quarts of popcorn yearly — enough to fill the Empire State Building 18 times.
Card 15: Babs the Rabbit o
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Rabbits take about 18 naps a day. They can sleep with their eyes open.
Card 20: Look at the Jets o
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At any moment, there can be around 5,000 airplanes in the sky. o Some airplanes are supersonic jets. They travel over 768 miles per hour. o The fastest jet aircraft in the world can travel up to 2,100 miles per hour.
Program Activity Example #9 Multilingual Learner Supports
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