Optional Libraries

The optional libraries are collections of engaging books, at various levels, for independent reading or read-aloud situations.

Instructional plans for several DSC programs require that students read independently, in books appropriate for their reading level. Students learn to apply the literacy strategies they are learning to their independent reading. In some programs, teachers read aloud. Classroom discussion may focus on literacy strategies or social values—or both.

The DSC libraries, available in small sets as well as complete collections, enable teachers to create “just right” libraries for their classrooms.

SIPPS Intervention Libraries

Independent reading can help build fluency when students have engaging books at appropriate levels. Optional libraries provide age-appropriate collections of books for readers who have mastered phonics skills.

Buy SIPPS Fluency Practice Library (Grades 1–3)

Buy SIPPS Hi/Lo Fluency Practice Library (Grades 4–12)

Making Meaning Libraries

Libraries of alternative read-aloud books enable teachers to provide additional strategy practice or repeat a week of strategy instruction using a different book.

Buy CSL Grade K, Set 1 Buy CSL Grade K, Set 2

Buy CSL Grade 1, Set 1 Buy CSL Grade 1, Set 2

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Buy CSL Grade 3, Set 1 Buy CSL Grade 3, Set 2

Buy CSL Grade 4, Set 1 Buy CSL Grade 4, Set 2

Buy CSL Grade 5, Set 1 Buy CSL Grade 5, Set 2

Buy CSL Grade 6, Set 1 Buy CSL Grade 6, Set 2

Buy CSL Grade 7

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Caring School Community Libraries

These optional read-aloud values libraries highlight many of the values children are learning in the CSC program (caring, fairness, helpfulness, respect, and responsibility). Reading and discussing these books provides opportunities for students to make connections between the values they are learning and the social and ethical issues they encounter in literature.

Buy Kindergarten Library

Buy Grade One Library

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