Drawn into the Heart of Reading: Teacher’s Guide
Get ready to put the “heart” back into reading with Drawn Into the Heart of Reading! This flexible reading program will help your children become (or remain) passionate about books, while still teaching necessary reading skills. Based on clear instructions and engaging activities, this innovative program will certainly work with any literature.
The Teacher’s Guide shows you the plan for every day of reading. The plans clearly specify lessons as “teacher-directed” or “independent” lessons. Each day of plans includes three levels of instruction: Level 2/3, Level 4/5, and Level 6/7/8, and each level has its own corresponding Student Book.
You can easily use Drawn into the Heart of Reading with one student or with multiple ages at the same time. Clear multi-level instructions are combined in one teacher’s guide featuring balanced plans equally organized around 9 different genres of literature.
Components of Drawn into the Heart of Reading
All the following components of Drawn into the Heart of Reading work together to fashion an exciting, thorough approach to reading:
- Genre Kick-Offs
- Prereading Activities
- Story Element Lessons
- Godly Character Trait Lessons
- Vocabulary Activities
- Discussion Questions
- Creative Projects
You can view the Drawn into the Heart of Reading daily format here.
Genre Kickoff, Godly Character Traits, and Creative Projects
The “genre kickoff” part of the program introduces each new genre in a fun and entertaining way. The “story element” part of the program teaches students to identify and analyze a different story element for each genre. As students discuss what they are reading and share connections they’ve made, their comprehension and understanding significantly improves as well.
In the “Godly character traits” part of the program, your children will learn important character traits with each genre. Using biblical characters as examples, children are taught to comparatively weigh the actions and attitudes of book characters and themselves in light of the Bible.
Furthermore, the “creative projects” part of the program will have your child ending each genre unit study with one of three project options. These options ensure your child can undoubtedly find a project to get excited about!
You can view the guide introduction (including a list of genres, story elements, and character traits) here.
You can view the first week of plans here.
