The Student Books are supported by IWB and Assessment CDs, Teacher Notes and Big Books. Springboard into Comprehension 6 will be published in term 2 .
The series provides an explicit teaching framework that includes direct explanation; teacher modelling; guided practice, applying the skill and assessment.
Springboard into Comprehension provides:
- a systematic coverage of comprehension skills including Main Idea, Bias and Prejudice, Sequencing, Compare and Contrast, Cause and Effect, Fact and Opinion.
- Big Books and Interactive Whiteboard texts to model and to actively engage students’ in the comprehension process.
- Blackline Masters in the Teacher Notes books offering opportunities to practice and consolidate skills.
- Levelled student books structured to teach specific comprehension skills.
- Guide notes in student books that model and provide practice of the skill under review.
- a wide range of graphic organiser activities and templates that assist students to organise information, clarify understandings and synthesis information effectively.
- Interactive Whiteboard CDs contain interactive cloze activities as well as word and illustration files that can be used to create activities to meet the individual students' needs.
- Diagnostic Assessment activities on the IWB and Assessment CD that assesses students understanding of specific comprehension skills.