Curriculum Overview 2013-2014 {Freebie Friday}

After teaching for 10 years you'd think that summer planning would be almost non-existent, but I believe that  a great teacher still takes the time to shake things up and reassess the things that have worked or didn't work in the past.  Not to mention if the school has adopted a new curriculum (which my school did).

So without much ado, here are my curriculum maps for the new school year.  Guided Reading you will notice is a little vague, but that is because I teach reading in small groups so I focus on one skill for a month for my whole class lesson (September = comprehension strategies) and then get deeper into that skill in my small reading groups. 

For Math and most of our Language Arts we use Bob Jones University Press curriculum.  For my small reading groups I mostly will be using Reading A to Z

Language Arts

Little bit of background:  My Language Arts Block is structured using The Daily 5 by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser. When teaching reading strategies, I use CAFE (also by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser).  My writing lessons come from 6+1 Traits - I have used this a little last year, but am going to very much be relying on it this year.  My word work lessons come mostly from the Four Blocks.

So for the last 2 weeks I have been soley focusing on Language Arts.  I am mainly keeping the bones of my block.  I'm just organizing it all more into one document so I can see them all together.  The main area that I am really changing is the writing, as I mentioned above.  I have been really enjoying getting my mini lesson ideas from 6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide For The Primary Grades by Ruth Culham. 

So right now, it's more of amalgamating all of the components of curriculum that I like into The Daily 5 framework.  Hopefully soon I'll be able to attach the 'finished' mapped out product.