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Reach for Success
Hampton-Brown
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Language • Literacy • Content
The next generation of language, vocabulary,
reading, writing, and content for elementary
students is within Reach.
Actively engages and immerses students in a connected, expanding,
and dynamic language environment
Layers and scaffolds essential skills and strategies to move all
learners to independence
Easily adapts to meet your instructional priorities and requirements
Level A
Level B
Level C
Kindergarten
Grade 1
Grade 2
Level D
Level E
Level F
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
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Actively engages and immerses students in a connected, expanding, and dynamic language environment
Active Learning
National Geographic Reach helps you provide all students with a
robust and interactive learning environment to acquire and expand language.
Rich Academic Discussions
Big Questions invite students to engage with content and each other
Ongoing dialog encourages students to share knowledge,
experiences, and cultural perspectives
Interactive Learning Opportunities
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Hands-on activities build background knowledge
and understanding
Daily language practice builds proficiency
Partner activities provide frequent opportunities
to develop content and skills
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Enriching Language and
Content Experiences
Engaging songs create risk-free
environments for trying out
new language
Language frames provide
valuable assistance to learning
language functions
Teamwork Activities boost
language and content learning
in centers
Accessible Visual Vocabulary
Routines and supports accelerate vocabulary
acquisition
Materials focus learning on content and academic
vocabulary
Visuals assist students in the acquisition of gradelevel vocabulary
EMPHASIS ON VOCABULARY
Going beyond story words, National Geographic Reach
targets content and academic vocabulary. Abundant visual
and text support makes the acquisition of high-utility
vocabulary accessible to all students.
Engaging Technology
Images and videos help
students build background and
context
Games enhance the acquisition
of language and vocabulary
Multimedia resources empower
students to reinforce and
extend learning
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Layers and scaffolds essential skills and strategies to move all learners to independence
Structured Support
National Geographic Reach delivers frequent and varied
supports to meet the needs of all students.
Paired Selections
Reading across a variety of genres
inspires learning and discovery
Selections include exclusive National
Geographic nonfiction to motivate and
prepare students for reading in the
content areas
Valuable Pre-Reading Support
Lessons equip students for reading success
Layered instruction builds background,
language, and vocabulary
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(National Geographic Reach Level D, Grade 3 shown)
Focused Strategy Instruction
Targeted lessons teach, model, and practice
a reading strategy
Application of pre-taught strategies
elevates comprehension
FOCUS AND REPETITION
Focus and repetition of one reading strategy per
unit, aided by highly scaffolded instruction, help
students succeed. Systematic application across
genres promotes strategy transfer.
On-Page Reading Support
Selections are divided into manageable
chunks with frequent comprehension
checks
Highlighted key vocabulary and on-page
assistance for idioms and other difficult
words keeps students focused and
moving through the reading
Multi-Level Assessment (Grades 2–5)
Differentiated assessments measure progress on skills and
standards at students’ appropriate language level
A flexible set of assessments impact student learning
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Easily adapts to meet your instructional priorities and requirements
Instructional Flexibility
National Geographic Reach has been designed to enable you to tailor
instruction to match your specific curriculum objectives, class setting,
and the needs of your students.
Build Your Plan
The Online Lesson Planner
allows you to easily create
or customize plans and
also includes a variety of
ready-to-go plans.
Clear Construction
Week-at-a-glance planners clearly identify instructional activities by program strand
Stated time allotments aid modification decisions
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(National Geographic Reach Level D, Grade 3 shown)
Focused Lesson Design
Clearly identified objectives and tested skills inform instructional decisions
Lessons are built to function in isolation or in the program’s sequential path
Substantive Differentiated Instruction
Multi-level strategies within lessons support students
at varying proficiency levels
Print and online materials offer multiple learning
pathways to making content comprehensible
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Assessment
Multiple Measures to Assess Student Learning
Start the Year
English Language Proficiency Pretest
• Identify student ELP and complete profile to include
Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking
• Place students into Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced
or Advanced High instructional groups
Monitor Progress
Part Tests
• Assess foundational skills taught within a part of a
unit
• Flexibility for teacher to use as needed
Unit Tests
Ongoing Point-of-Use
Informal Assessment
• Assess Reading, Writing, and Grammar skills
• Differentiated tests based on language level
• Flexibility for teacher to use as needed
Oral Fluency Benchmark Assessments
• Assess oral reading accuracy and rate 3x per year
Additional Assessments
• Unit Self-Assessments
• Writing Portfolio
• Affective and Metacognitive Measures
• Performance Rubrics
End the Year
End-of-Level Assessment
• Assess standards and skills taught across the level
• Formats similar to state tests
English Language Proficiency Post Test
• Show growth in ELP from the beginning to the end of
the year
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Variety of Reteaching
Opportunities
Components
Student Materials
Level A
Kindergarten
Read Together Student Books Set (16 Titles)
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Level B
Grade 1
Student Anthology Set (2 Volumes)
Practice Book
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Level C
Grade 2
Student Anthology
Practice Book
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Level D
Grade 3
Student Anthology
Practice Book
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Level E
Grade 4
Student Anthology
Practice Book
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Level F
Grade 5
Student Anthology
Practice Book
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Components
Teacher Materials
Planning and
Instruction
Level
Teacher’s Edition Set
(2 Volumes) with
Language Songs CDs
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Teaching Resources
Assesssment
Handbook
Exam
View©
CD-ROM
Classroom Interactives
Practice
Book
Teacher’s
Annotated
Edition
Sing with Me
Language Songs Big
Book
Vocabulary and Language Resources
Read with Me
Big Books
(8 titles)
Literature
Big Books
(8 titles)
Language and
Literacy Teamwork
Activities Flip Chart
Talk Together Books
(2 titles per unit,
16 books total)
National Geographic
Library
(2 titles per unit,
32 books total)
Fiction Library
(6 books per unit,
48 titles total)
Nonfiction Library
(6 books per unit,
48 titles total)
Alphachant
(Kindergarten)
Reach into Phonics
(Grades 1–5)
Vocabulary Picture
Cards (Grade 1)
In the U.S.A
(Grades 2–5)
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Cross-Curricular
Teamwork Activities
Support for
Newcomers
Integrated Phonics
Resources
Book Collections
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Technology
Integrated Technology
myNGconnect.com for Students
Student eEditions with audio, video, and
interactive links
Digital Library with content images, video,
and audio clips
Games for phonics and vocabulary
Student Resources
My Vocabulary Notebook
My Assignments
Links to NG Kids and NG Explorer websites
Comprehension Coach
Available Summer 2011
Student eEdition
Digital Library
Vocabulary Games
Build Background Interactives
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myNGconnect.com for Teachers
Student and Teacher eEditions with audio,
video, and interactive links
Lesson Planner
Digital Library with content images, video,
and audio clips
Presentation Tool
Leveled Book Finder
Resource Directory
Class Management
eAssessment
Available Summer 2011
Online Lesson Planner
Unit
Online Professional Development
3 Launch
Unit at a Glance
Water for Everyone
OBJECTIVES
Listening, Speaking, and Viewing
• Respond to a Video
• Participate in a Discussion
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1 Preview and Predict
Read the unit title aloud and encourage
children to flip through the unit. Ask: What do you think you will learn?
What makes you think that?
Language: Ask for and Give
Information, Define and Explain
Literacy: Ask Questions
Content: Water
Water for
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Watch the video.
Learning and Teamwork Strategies
Media
• View and Discuss a Video
• Analyze Media
Resources
Unit 3 Build Background Interactive
Family Newsletter 3
eVisual 3.1
Practice Master 3.1
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See Technology Station for digital student resources.
Home Connection
Send home Family Newsletter 3.
Children interview friends and family
members on the ways they use water.
Read a Big Book
Spark interest and build background as
you read aloud This Is the Rain. Introduce
the science story: When water comes from
the sky, it is called rain. But do you know
how water got there in the first place?
Let’s find out.
Build Background Video
2 Introduce the Big Question
Ask: How do you use water?
How do you get the water? Where do you see water in nature? (Answers
will vary.)
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Read aloud the Big Question. Have children share possible answers.
Encourage them to provide details. List the answers.
3 Build Background
Preview
the video: Now we will play a video
that tells us about water. We’ll learn
about how all living things need
water to survive and where water
comes from.
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Where does
water come
from?
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Think of ways that people
use water.
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Act out one idea. Work with a
group. Have the class guess
what you are doing.
Begin the Unit Concept Map
Make a poster showing your
group’s idea of how people
use water.
Build Background: Watch a video about water.
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• What are the main forms of water
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Introduce the concept map:
As you go through this unit, it will be helpful to organize your thinking in a
concept map.
Build Background Video
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• How can people save water?
• How do the sounds and images help you learn about water? Do you get
more information from the words or from the images?
Date
Unit Concept Map
Water for Everyone
eVisual 3.1
Make a concept map with the answers to the Big Question: Where does
water come from?
Display the unit concept map for the Big Question. Explain: The Big
Question is in the cloud. We’ll add our answers to the drops of water in the
cloud and in the pail.
Where does water come from?
Practice Book
Where does water go?
4 Share What You Know
Review the three steps of the directions.
Explain: To complete the activity, you will need to think about:
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• ways that people use water
• how to show the ways that people use water by acting them out
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Practice Book 3.1
Unit 3 | Water for Everyone
Practice Master 3.1
Where does water come from?
ocean
As a class, brainstorm ways that people use water. In addition to personal
use, encourage children to think about how people use water to raise
animals and grow food. Have them talk about machines that they use
that need water to function.
Where does water go?
Talk About
the
Display all the group posters in the classroom. Encourage children to refer
back to them for ideas as they work through the unit.
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eVisual
3.1
Have children add the ideas they already listed, and any other ideas they
may have, to Practice Master 3.1. Explain that they will add more to the
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Share What You Know
Play the video
Discuss the video:
on Earth? Which are salt water
and which are fresh water?
Big
Question
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• Preview and Predict
• Relate to Personal Experience
• Use Graphic Organizers
• Use Media to Build Concepts
Introduce the Build Background Video
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Big Question
Begin the Unit Concept Map
Link to Content Vocabulary
Link to “Frog Brings Rain”
Link to “Make Rain”
Link to Content Vocabulary
Link to “PlayPumps”
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