Making Meaning materials are provided in grade-level packages—one for each classroom.

The Making Meaning program provides a Student Response Book for each student in grades 2–8. It includes activity sheets correlated to lessons that students use to record their thinking and an IDR journal in which students record their thoughts about their reading during IDR.

Each classroom package contains:

Teacher’s Manual (2 volumes for grades 3 and above)

The Teacher’s Manual provides detailed lessons for strategy instruction, as well as a scope and sequence for teaching reading comprehension. The daily lessons revolve around clearly defined teaching objectives and partner work that build in complexity as students move through the program.

Selected Read-aloud Books, Short Stories, and Articles

Students’ listening comprehension typically exceeds their reading comprehension. Listening to and discussing texts together enables them to build background knowledge and vocabulary, enjoy a common experience, build community, share ideas, and collaborate to construct meaning.

Student Response Book (grades 2–8; 25–30 per package)

The Making Meaning program provides a Student Response Book for each student in grades 2–8. It includes activity sheets correlated to lessons that students use to record their thinking and an IDR journal in which students record their thoughts about their reading during IDR. Consumable.

Assessment Resource Book (grades 1–8; 25–30 per package)

For grades 1–8, the assessment in the program is designed to help teachers make informed instructional decisions as lessons are taught and track students’ reading comprehension and social development over the year. Consumable.

Program Orientation Materials

An Orientation Handbook and two DVDs to help teachers become familiar with the program prior to teaching it is provided in the classroom package. The DVDs contain an overview of the entire program and lessons in action in real classrooms.

ALSO AVAILABLE

• Making Meaning CD-ROM: For subsequent years of instruction, grade-level specific CD-ROMs allow you to print all the reproducible materials needed for teachers and students.
• Making Meaning Vocabulary: A supplementary program that is based on the latest research about word work.
• Optional Making Meaning Libraries: These libraries provide books for independent reading and for additional strategy practice.