Examples of text-dependent questions found throughout the units include but are not limited to: Examples include but are not limited to: Examples of discussions and modeling that are not evidence-based and do not encourage the modeling and use of academic vocabulary and syntax are: Fluency components are expression, intonation, adjust rate for purpose, phrasing for punctuation, stress, accuracy and self correction, rate, phrasing for pauses. In Unit 1, Lesson 5, students practice fluency by reading a Jack Prelutsky poem about baseball. Unit 6, Lesson 26, Compare Texts, Text to Text In Unit 5, Lesson 24, the directions the teacher are: “Have students keep a list of unfamiliar words they find in their independent reading selections. An example is found in Unit 3, lesson 15 after reading the text An example of a unit theme and topics/sub themes is: Materials include a cohesive, year-long plan for students to interact with and build key academic vocabulary words in and across texts. The spelling during that lesson is focused on -ful, -ly, and -er. Assessments provide sufficient guidance to teachers for interpreting student performance and suggestions for follow-up. Students are encouraged to use a reading log from the Grab-and-Go! These patterns correspond to the spelling of each week. Working in teams of 4-5, reviewers use educator-developed review tools, evidence guides, and key documents to thoroughly examine their sets of materials.After receiving over 25 hours of training on the EdReports.org review tool and process, teams meet weekly over the course of several months to share evidence, come to consensus on scoring, and write the evidence that ultimately is shared on the website.All team members look at every grade and indicator, ensuring that the entire team considers the program in full. In addition, teachers will often be unable to tell from students’ work whether they mastered concepts of each component. While students practice word analysis skills with the anchor text vocabulary and the Day 4 Vocabulary Strategy lesson, opportunities to practice other word analysis skills in text are limited to specific tasks that do not connect with the anchor text or paired text. While some literary texts included in materials are of quality, informational texts are often short and lack engaging, content-area vocabulary. There are not high-quality sequences of text-dependent questions and activities that build to the performance task. In Unit 3, Lesson 11, during vocabulary instruction, students are taught three suffixes in one week: -less, -ful, and -ous. While the materials offer prompts and performance tasks, and students practice writing with each lesson, the materials/unit writing tasks do not increase students’ skills throughout the year, nor to they provide support and scaffolding to help students reach the depth of writing that is required of these standards. For example, in Unit 4, Lesson 18, students are asked to host a collaborative conversation to answer the question, “Reread the first sentence on page 99. These lessons provide students with some information to help them to understand and complete performance tasks, but the lessons provide no additional information for the teacher to determine Grade 3 students’ readiness. The task directions state which texts students should use, and not all texts work with the tasks. The text dependent questions provided are not adequate to support students' mastering of this skill. Some lessons have a Research and Media Literacy section. In Unit 2, phonics lessons including studying words with VCV, three-letter clusters, silent letters, and vowel diphthongs. Students explore a range of topics including, but not limited to: history, sports, animals, careers, science, native american culture, inventions, agriculture, cooking, natural wonders, heroes, and conservation. ), "platform neutral" (i.e., are compatible with multiple operating systems such as Windows and Apple and are not proprietary to any single platform), follow universal programming style, and allow the use of tablets and mobile devices.