Bridge to Reading Foundational Skills for Third Grade, Classroom Kit

Details

• Intended audience: Third Grade
• Lesson structure: Whole Group
• Duration: 30 minutes

Components

The Bridge to Reading Foundational Skills for Third Grade Classroom Kit includes the following components. For classrooms with more than 25 students, please purchase additional student materials within the recommended add-ons section above.

Teacher and Classroom Materials 

2 Teacher’s Editions

Bridge to Reading Teacher’s Editions simplifies literacy instruction for teachers by providing embedded guidance and support as they deliver explicit, systematic lessons to students.

Teacher’s Editions include:

• Background research to build teacher knowledge
• Scope and sequence offering daily lessons across 24 weeks
• Explicit language and guidance for Tier 1 instruction
• Gradual release model (I do, We do, You do)
• Embedded differentiation guidance
• Scaffolds for multilingual learners
• QR codes for easy access to myHeggerty digital resources

Specifications:

• 8.5×11″
• Perfect-bound, double-sided
• Book 1: Units 1-2, Book 2: Units 3-4
• To explore the comprehensive Scope & Sequence, please click here.

Teacher Resource Book

Bridge to Reading’s Teacher Resource Books provide teachers with additional guidance and instruction to support fluency and reading development  for all students.

Teacher Resource Books include:

• Phonemic awareness for older learners
• Lesson plans accompany anchor charts
• Progress monitoring & assessments 
• Fluency rubrics and guidance for fluency checks
• Heggerty Library connected texts & lesson plans

Specifications:

• 8.5×11″
• Perfect-bound, double-sided

Word Posters

Word Posters provide an illustration that matches a story and are used to introduce a word study skill during the I Do or We Do instruction. The story is printed on the back of each poster and is available on myHeggerty.

Specifications:

• Each poster is 17×22″, double-sided
• 1 Spiral-bound flip chart

Anchor Charts

Eight printed anchor charts are included in each kit. A digital version of each anchor chart is available on myHeggerty. The charts are used interactively during some weeks of instruction, and content can be added to the back of each chart using a dry-erase marker.

Specifications:

• Each poster is 17×22″, double-sided
• 1 Spiral-bound flip chart

Teacher Word Construction Cards Set

Word Construction Cards are used to model word building for whole-group instruction. These cards represent prefixes and suffixes, to be used while building multisyllabic words. This set includes 41 construction cards that contain prefixes and suffixes, along with 10 blank cards where a base word can be written.

Specifications:

• Each card is 4×4”
• 1 set included per classroom kit

Heggerty Library Books—Grade 3, Series 1, Classroom Set

These meaningful, comprehensible, and engaging books develop students’ ability to read connected text independently while building stamina and fluency. This set comprises fiction and nonfiction texts, offering diverse reading materials to enhance students’ reading proficiency.

Heggerty Library Grade 3 (Series 1) titles:

• Bridges (Non-Fiction) —View Sample
• Just One Friend (Fiction)
• Sleep and Dreams (Non-Fiction)
• Chasing Shadows (Fiction)
• Birds (Non-Fiction)
• Finding Feathered Friends (Fiction)
• What Causes the Seasons? (Non-Fiction)
• Outstanding Friends to the Rescue (Fiction)
• American Sign Language (Non-Fiction)
• Conversations with Grace (Fiction)
• The Wright Brothers (Non-Fiction)
• Adventure Awaits (Fiction)

Specifications:

A curriculum kit includes six copies of each title, with a total of 72 Heggerty Library books.

myHeggerty Digital Access for Bridge to Reading, Grade 3

Access to digital Teacher’s Editions and assessments, classroom interactives, shareable Heggerty Library eBooks, on-demand professional development, and more!

Annual subscription includes the following:

• Digital access to the Bridge to Reading Teacher’s Editions
• Digital access to Bridge the Gap Intervention Curriculum
• Digital access to Heggerty’s Phonemic Awareness Primary Extension Curriculum
• On-demand professional development
• Digital learning library
• Cumulative digital assessments
• Interactive classroom tools and more

Student Materials

25 Student READ Books

Student READ Books (Ready, Engaged, Active Decoders) provide opportunities for independent practice, applying sound-spelling relationships, developing word-reading skills, and improving fluency.

Specifications:

• 8.5×11″
• Perforated, punched, double-sided, and perfect-bound

25 Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Books

Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Books provide opportunities for independent practice needed to support fluency development, including differentiated versions of connected text passages and student fluency rubrics.

Specifications:

• 8.5×11″
• Perforated, punched, double-sided and perfect-bound

100 Syllable Boards

Syllable Boards are used when teaching syllable division and syllable types in Grade 3. Students utilize this resource to write and spell multisyllabic words, writing one syllable on each board while building the word.

Specifications:

• Syllable Boards are each 3×5″
• Shrink-wrapped into sets of 20

Annual Renewal Components 

Your annual renewal includes everything needed to continue using Bridge to Reading in subsequent years:

• Annual teacher subscription to the myHeggerty Digital Access for Bridge to Reading, Grade 3
• 25 Student READ Books
• 25 Student Oral Reading Fluency Books

Renewals take place a year from the date of shipping. Your annual renewal is optional and may be canceled anytime by contacting Heggerty at hello@heggerty.org.