Journeys: A Path to Balanced Literacy provides everything teachers need to open a new world of fluency and flexibility for your young readers and writers:

• Comprehensive Language and Literacy Guide
• Word Study Teacher's Guide
• Teacher Read Alouds
• Over 100 Leveled Readers for each grade
• Assessment
• Ready-made options for independent and differentiated instruction

• For Teachers

  

  Comprehensive Language and Literacy Guide

  Designed by Irene Fountas, the Comprehensive Language and Literacy Guide features an active literacy approach to build strong readers and writers.

  This outstanding resource for the Balanced Literacy or Guided Reading classroom provides a framework for a variety of genre studies and follows an easy-to-use planning guide: the Suggested Weekly Focus. The guide also includes a Leveled Reader database for selecting books for students at the appropriate instructional level.

  Like a Balanced Literacy approach, the Journeys Comprehensive Language and Literacy Guide is organized in three different contexts—Whole-Group, Small-Group, and Independent Literacy work.

  Whole-Group Lessons:

  • Introduce larger ideas and concepts to the entire class, regardless of individual reading level
  • Demonstrate teacher modeling through read alouds
  • Encourage students to share their thoughts with the larger group

  Small-Group Lessons:

  • Promote thinking within, about, and beyond the text
  • Provide opportunities to gather informal and formal assessment information by listening to students read and discuss text
  • Feature running records for each Leveled Reader

  Independent:

  • Include opportunities to extend skills taught in whole-group or small-group lessons
  • Provide multiple activities for each week's lessons
  • Develop good independent work skills

  Word Study Teacher’s Guide“The Word Study Teacher's Guide provides research-based, effective instructional practices in understanding words and how they work.

  Shane Templeton

  

  The Word Study Teacher's Guide:

  • Supports the Common Core's emphasis on reading and writing complex literacy and informational text
  • Meets students at their instructional level and moves them forward
  • Provides opportunities for differentiation
  • Develops general academic vocabulary
  • Assesses word knowledge
  • Encourages deeper engagement in words and text

  Eight-Page Teacher Guide

  Journeys Leveled Readers are supported by an eight-page Teacher Guide, designed by Irene Fountas, which encourages students to think deeply about the text and provides opportunities to write about their reading.

  

  Running Records

  Running Records help teachers assess a student's reading level and development of reading strategies. Teachers use running Running Records to:

  • Monitor students' use of reading strategies
  • Aid in placing students in the correct leveled text
  • Evaluate student errors (meaning, structure, and/or visual)

• For Students

  Word Study

  Word Study exercises expose students to a wide variety of meaningful word study activities. Word sorting, synonyms and antonyms, idioms, compound words, parts of speech, and word parts are just some examples of word study topics that can be developed into independent literacy activities.

  

  Vocabulary in Context Cards contain words used in the week's literature. On the back of each card, a student-friendly explanation of the word and activities are provided to help students think about how the word can be used in various contexts.

  

  Retelling Cards provide oral language support as they build comprehension. Talk About It prompts provide guidance during independent, partner, or small-group work.

  

  High Frequency Word Cards offer opportunities for meaningful word practice activities.

  

  Ready-Made Work Stations

  Work Stations focus on Comprehension and Fluency, Writing, and Word Study and link to the week's literature and skills. Three different activities on each card provide students with multiple opportunities to practice and reinforce skills taught that week.

  Reader’s Notebook

  The Reader's Notebook is a place for students to respond to their reading and to provide evidence of their understanding. The options for what students may write are endless—letters to the class or teacher, letters to authors, lists, narratives, poems, book reviews, and journal entries. Teachers may ask them to write about something specific or leave it open for the student to choose. In the Comprehensive Language and Literacy Guide, a suggested prompt that links to the week's reading is provided on each Suggested Weekly Focus page.

  

  Interactive and Audio

  Online Interactive activities make learning fun and engaging:

  • Destination Reading^®
  • Write-In Readers
  • Student eBook
  • Leveled Readers
  • Write Smart

  Student eBook Audio CD, for use at listening centers, helps improve students' listening comprehension and expand their vocabulary.

   

  Destination Reading® is a registered trademark of HMH IP Company.

• Assessment

  

  Journeys: A Path to Balanced Literacy features five steps to reading success, with assessment options for:

  • Getting Started
  • Every Day
  • Every Week
  • Every Unit
  • Twice a Year

  In addition to the Running Records included for every Leveled Reader Lesson Plan, Online Running Records are included with Journeys Digital Online.

• Differentiated Instruction

  Built-in resources in the Teacher's Edition and the Journeys: A Path to Balanced Literacy program provide outstanding opportunities to differentiate instruction within your Guided Reading classroom.

  

  Grab-and-Go

  Grab-and-Go^® kits put Differentiated Instruction Blackline Masters, Weekly Assessment, Parent Letters, and much more in an easy-to-use weekly folder format.

  

  ELL Leveled Readers

  English language learner Leveled Readers connect to the main selection's topic, vocabulary, skill, and strategy, and include audio CDs to provide models for oral reading fluency.

  

  Language Support Cards

  Language Support Cards develop high-utility vocabulary and academic language background and promote oral language skills.

  Grab-and-Go^® is a registered trademark of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

• Intervention

  Journeys: A Path to Balanced Literacy resources allow you to reach all students at all levels—even struggling students requiring intervention tools.

  

  Write-In Readers

  Write-In Readers keep students engaged with text and focused on comprehension. Preteach and reteach weekly core skills and vocabulary to help below-level readers access classroom instruction with consumable Write-In Reader worktexts.

  

  Reading Tool Kit

  The Reading Tool Kit (primary grades) provides instructional routines to close the gaps in the technical domains of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and text comprehension.

  • “I Do, We Do, You Do” organization gets students involved
  • 90 Lessons in each of the five domains
  • Skills index included

  

  Literacy Tool Kit

  The Literacy Tool Kit (intermediate grades) provides focused, skill-based instruction perfect for individual or small-group work. Leveled books offer additional reading and skill application, and assessments evaluate the intervention effectiveness.

  • Focused instruction in key reading skills
  • Perfect for small-group or individual instruction
  • Leveled books offer additional reading and skill application
  • Assessment evaluates the effectiveness of the intervention

• Apps

  Reading support and resources are delivered in a fun and convenient way to keep students engaged.

   

  

  HMH Readers App

  Put an entire library at your students’ fingertips! This mobile reading program features leveled nonfiction and fiction texts to reinforce reading skills, promote academic vocabulary acquisition, and improve reading fluency & comprehension in young readers in Grades K–6. The HMH Readers app provides reading support for teachers, parents and all students, whether they read on, below, or above grade level. HMH Readers features audio, highlighting, and bookmarking capabilities as well as each search and browsing by title, author, or key word.

  

   
  

  

  HMH Common Core Reading Practice and Assessment App

  The HMH Reading Common Core Practice and Assessment app provides a mobile format that allows students to practice and acquire test-taking skills that will help them succeed on PARCC and SBAC* assessments, while providing teachers with real time data on student progress. Each week, two informational passages in the correct Lexile^® Level band are used with a practice test that provides corrective feedback and an assessment with questions that include tech-enhanced items.

  

  *This project is not endorsed by nor affiliated with PARCC or Smarter Balanced Assessment Corsortium. Lexile^® is a trademark of MetaMetrics, Inc. and is registered in the United States and abroad. Apple and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App store is a service mark of Apple Inc. Window 8^® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Android^™ is a trademark of Google, Inc.

Explore Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s reading and literacy resources that enhance a Balanced Literacy classroom.

Interactive Whiteboard Lessons

Common Core-aligned Interactive Whiteboard lessons provide fun, interesting, and hands-on learning in the areas of phonics, vocabulary strategies, grammar, text analysis, and writing skills, allowing students to immerse themselves in each lesson.

Download Samples:

Grade 1 (10.74MB)

Grade 4 (4.36MB)

Journeys Interactive Whiteboard Installation Guide (1.6MB)

Journeys Interactive Whiteboard User Guide (195k)

Note: Whether you are using a SMART Board^®, Promethean^®, or another type of interactive whiteboard device, Journeys Interactive Whiteboard Lessons are compatible and easy to use. Simply make sure you have ActivInspire^® on your computer before downloading. ActivInspire can be downloaded for free online.

SMART Board^® is a registered trademark of SMART Technologies ULC in the U.S. and/or other countries. Promethean^® is a registered trademark of Promethean Limited. ActivInspire^® is a registered trademark of Promethean Limited.

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