Make Summer School Part of Your Year-Long Literacy Plan

IRLA: Independent Reading Level Assessment Framework

Formative Assessment Built on the Common Core State Standards for Reading

A unified standard-based framework for student assessment, text leveling, curriculum, and instruction. The IRLA includes every Common Core State Standard for Reading, both in literature and informational text, as well as those Language standards which are key to reading success.

The IRLA allows educators to determine a student’s current level of reading proficiency, diagnose areas of strength and weakness, formulate an Action Plan for next steps, and track progress on a daily basis using books the student has chosen to read because he or she wants to read them.

Conference Notebook

The Conference Notebook is the heart of the 100 Book Challenge standards-based formative assessment system. The teacher maintains a standards-based assessment/coaching guide appropriate to that student’s current level of reading proficiency. Teachers learn to assess, diagnose, and instruct each student using a standards-based formative assessment framework while the student reads books he or she has chosen and wants to read.

Student progress is monitored, coached, and documented as they increase their mastery of the reading standards required by state testing. All instruction is differentiated to match individual student needs and interests. Teachers learn to be diagnosticians, expert coaches, and reading friends to their students. The Conference Notebook supports both student and teacher learning through daily classroom practice.

Reading Skills Cards

Identify what a student needs to know and be able to do at each reading level

Written in student and parent friendly language, the Reading Skills Cards travel between school and home daily providing guidelines for teachers, parents and students as to the skills and strategies (standards) that must be mastered at each level. Comprehension questions are keyed to the higher order thinking skills required by high stakes tests.

100 Book Challenge Smart Start modules include 250–340 cards reflecting the reading levels of your students.

Milestone Medals

Milestone Awards are presented in recognition of effort-based achievements in reading. Each gold medal has the 100 Book Challenge logo on one side and the reading milestone on the other. Colorful ribbons represent which milestone the reader has reached.

5 Baskets/100 Titles

Master educators hand-select only the best trade and reading company multicultural titles to include in the Benchmark libraries. Collections are balanced to include fiction (including best selling series) and nonfiction across multiple genres and come leveled, organized, and ready to read. Each classroom receives ten baskets (30 books each), totaling 300 unique titles, and each classroom’s set is different. The baskets circulate among participating classrooms creating a continuous stream of up to 15,000 titles moving through participating classrooms.

Logbooks

Each student receives a log book to track his or her reading progress recording each Step (15 minutes of reading) completed over the summer. By the time the logbook is complete, each student will have reached 50 hours of reading. Students enter the title, date, and reading level, and a parent, coach, or teacher signs each entry.

Reading practice should take place for 30 minutes at home.

Available in English and Spanish

Teacher Handbook

Teacher Pacing Guide offers a detailed nine-week plan for completion of a full thematic inquiry project using a reading and writing workshop model. In addition to highlighting key concepts and essential components, the guide supplies a schedule for daily activities. It also provides a rubric for student grading and makes project expectations clear for teachers, students, and parents.

Blackline Masters for Student Research

Blackline masters provide graphic organizers to teach and scaffold students’ note-making, research reading, and writing skills.

Geography Map Cards

Students literally hold the world in their hands with the World Geography Skills Card. One side presents a small world map with all the essential geography terms every student needs: the names of the continents, oceans, directions, etc. The reverse side has a larger, blank world map that students use to quiz each other, helping them attain mastery of basic geography.

Theme Related Folders

Theme Folders are decorated, heavy-stock folders that allow students to keep their books, log sheets, Skills Cards, and research notes together, making transport easy between home and school.

Writing Cards

Writing cards support students through each step of the writing process: drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Each card details the steps students need to take to successfully complete one stage of the full writing process (e.g., drafting) before proceeding to the next step (e.g., revising).

Writing Cards

• Drafting
• Revising
• Editing
• Publishing

Project Blank Books

Students independently draft, revise, edit, illustrate, and publish a book demonstrating what they have learned on their topic.

Teacher Reference Library

The Teacher Reference Library is a collection of books selected to provide additional information for students as they conduct in-depth research on their chosen topics. Although the reading levels are challenging, the rich photos, maps, graphs, charts, and accessible layouts make these books appealing and useful for all students. This library also can be used for teacher read-alouds, reference, and follow-up discussions aimed at expanding students’ background information and understanding of a theme.

5 Theme Baskets/100 Titles

Focusing on all life forms that spend the majority of their time in saltwater, this collection covers a broad swath of ocean animals such as seahorses, dolphins, sharks, penguins, and polar bears. Our collection features books available for young people on this topic. Ensure that your students master the life science standards (e.g., life cycles, food chains, ecosystems, habitats, symbiosis) as they enjoy being immersed in this outstanding collection.

Professional Development

Common Core State Standards Institute

Professional Development for summer school teachers and those ready to teach the Common Core State Standards.

Summer Learning for Teachers

• Free one-day on-site workshop with order of five or more modules
• Free two-hour webinar workshop with order of four or fewer modules (up to five attendees)
• Also available, a five-day leadership CCSS Institute for $11,500

Strategy Cards

Skill Cards go home with the children each night, prompting parents to talk with their children about what they are reading.

Available in English and Spanish

Logbooks

Each student receives a log book to track his or her reading progress recording each Step (15 minutes of reading) completed over the summer. By the time the logbook is complete, each student will have reached 50 hours of reading. Students enter the title, date, and reading level, and a parent, coach, or teacher signs each entry.

Reading practice should take place for 30 minutes at home.

Available in English and Spanish

Take-Home Books

Students are engaged in reading when they have access to books they like and books that are matched to their skill level. A selection of over 50 leveled books is sent to each classroom for 15-kit orders and 100 books for 30-kit orders. Each grade will receive a selection of books at different reading levels to ensure each child gets his or her selection at the right level.

Available in English and Spanish

Take-Home Book Bags

Cool Bags for Smart Kids

Students in grades PreK–5 use these durable book bags to transport all their 100 Book Challenge materials to and from school. The elastic strap will allow the bags to hang over the backs of most classroom chairs. Teachers can easily check to be sure every child goes home with this reading practice kit every night. Parents and younger siblings look forward to the unpacking of this special bag every afternoon, full of new books to read.

Book Bags

Book bags are ideal for students to transport all their 100 Book Challenge materials to and from school and any other reading location.

Strategy Cards

Skill Cards go home with the children each night, prompting parents to talk with their children about what they are reading.

Available in English and Spanish

Logbooks

Each student receives a log book to track his or her reading progress recording each Step (15 minutes of reading) completed over the summer. By the time the logbook is complete, each student will have reached 50 hours of reading. Students enter the title, date, and reading level, and a parent, coach, or teacher signs each entry.

Reading practice should take place for 30 minutes at home.

Available in English and Spanish

Take-Home Books

Students are engaged in reading when they have access to books they like and books that are matched to their skill level. A selection of over 50 leveled books is sent to each classroom for 15-kit orders and 100 books for 30-kit orders. Each grade will receive a selection of books at different reading levels to ensure each child gets his or her selection at the right level.

Available in English and Spanish

Take-Home Book Bags

Cool Bags for Smart Kids

Students in grades PreK–5 use these durable book bags to transport all their 100 Book Challenge materials to and from school. The elastic strap will allow the bags to hang over the backs of most classroom chairs. Teachers can easily check to be sure every child goes home with this reading practice kit every night. Parents and younger siblings look forward to the unpacking of this special bag every afternoon, full of new books to read.

Book Bags

Book bags are ideal for students to transport all their 100 Book Challenge materials to and from school and any other reading location.