Students experience the adventure of learning to read as they use their imaginations to walk along the beach and sail the deep seas, taking a peek at the underwater sea life and the world around them. Through a systematic instructional framework of teaching, modeling, assessing, and reviewing essential reading skills and strategies, a new era of reading curricula is achieved.
A full-year reading program, SeaCastles for first graders is divided into a two-hour daily instructional blocks. The focus includes explicit daily lessons and systematic assessment of student reading progress.
Instructional Focus:
Targeted skills and strategies include:
- Concepts of books and print
- Phonological awareness
- Letter awareness and identification
- Alphabetic principle
- Vocabulary development
- Reading comprehension
- Fluency
- Shared and independent reading
- Listening and speaking
- Writing
Assessment and Evaluation
The Voyager Universal Literacy System® uses a unique, unobtrusive and remarkably reliable oral fluency measurement system called Vital Indicators of Progress™ (VIP™). This measurement system provides teachers with essential information every nine weeks to effectively manage instruction.
VIP measures:
- Letter Naming Fluency
- Phoneme Segmentation Fluency
- Nonsense Word Fluency
- Oral Reading Fluency
Home Study Curriculum
Voyager has created a unique and innovative home study curriculum that tracks and reinforces Voyager's comprehensive in-school reading adventures. Parents sign a Literacy Compact forming a three-way partnership with the school and Voyager to assure that every child´s reading performance remains at standard.
Each Classroom Receives
- SeaCastles Curriculum Guide with daily lesson plans
- SeaCastles Island Collection Big Book CD
- Content-related literature and materials
- Home Study Guide
- Assessment Collection
- Student Reading Books
- Reading Support Materials
Instructional Block
- 2 hours per day, 5 days a week
Professional Development
Voyager's Reading Specialist Certification is delivered through four days
of training designed to prepare teachers to implement SeaCastles. The three-day
training includes the building blocks of reading, reliable assessment measures,
modeling lessons and interactive practice. Ongoing professional development is
offered regularly to support teachers in implementation.
Curriculum Support
Available through the Customer Support hotline at 1-888-399-1995 between 7:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. (CST)
For more information, please Contact Us.
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