SRA FLEX LITERACY

™ IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

The Print Experience

SMALL-GROUP INSTRUCTION

Overview

Throughout The Print Experience, students learn critical vocabulary and comprehension

skills and strategies that they apply in interactions with the teacher, classmates, and the

text itself. Thus, students are integrated into the learning experience from the start

through collaborative activities. Important background knowledge and difficult

vocabulary words are clarified before students participate in the teacher-led, shared

read-aloud and close read of the text. Instruction emphasizes rich dialogue and reflective

discussion based on a clear understanding of text evidence to support students’

inferences. With a five-day, three-part lesson plan to work through texts, instructors and

students follow an efficient pattern. High-interest, culturally diverse fiction, nonfiction,

and informational texts illustrate just how exciting reading can be. Drama, poetry, and

speech provide a means to emphasize prosody and performance through Reader’s

Theater. Choose Your Own Book allows teachers to expand learning with authentic text.

The Print Experience focuses on shared reading, exposing students to richer, more

sophisticated text than they may be able to read on their own. The instructional goal of

The Print Experience is not to teach students to read these selections independently, but

rather how to engage with the selections as proficient readers do, thinking critically

about the text and discussing its literary elements. The viewpoint of The Print Experience

is that all students have experiences, ideas, and opinions that can be used in interactions

with text, even if the text is one they are not yet proficient enough to read independently.

Materials

The Print Experience Materials

• Interactive Reader, Volume A

• Interactive Reader, Volume B

• Interactive Reader, Volume C

• Teacher’s Edition, Volume A

• Teacher’s Edition, Volume B

• Teacher’s Edition, Volume C

• ePresentations (available in

FLEXWorks

)

• Decodable Reader

• Tradebook Library