Unit 19 - Voyager Learning

IntroductionFlat StanleyStory NotesFlat Stanley: With wit and imagination, author Jeff Brown brings us Stanley—a boy wholives in the flat lane. After waking up one morning to find he’sbeen flattened by a wayward bulletin board, Flat Stanley has manyunusual, unbelievable, and flat-out absurd adventures!We hope your students enjoy this inventive tale.Recommended Read AloudsThe Read Well 2 suggested Read Alouds enhance small groupinstruction—providing opportunities to further build backgroundknowledge and vocabulary.Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis SacharFiction • NarrativeThe Wayside School is a strange school—it was built sideways by mistake,with its 30 classrooms stacked on top of each other. The stories are a bitstrange too. Poor Jason is stuck to his seat by a large wad of gum. Kathyassumes that no one will ever like her, and she turns out to be right.caution(Reminder)Do not read the ReadAloud recommendationsduring small groupinstruction. Reserve thistime for students to read.Read Well ConnectionsLike Flat Stanley, the stories in this Read Aloud feature improbable events told in amatter-of-fact voice. Students will enjoy the quirky humor and the fanciful tales.Note from the authorsTHIRD GRADE LEVEL PLUS!Students at three field test sites who began the year with Read Well Fluency Foundationsshowed impressive gains throughout the school year. Upon completion of Unit 17, thesestudents scored, on average, a 3.7 grade equivalency on the Woodcock Reading Mastery(WRM) Short Scale, Total Reading (Word Identification and Passage Comprehension).Pre- and post-test scores demonstrated an overall gain of 1.6 on grade equivalence.Field test students who completed Flat Stanley rose from the 61st percentile to the 71stpercentile on the WRM Total Reading test and jumped from the 54th percentile to the69th percentile in comprehension scores.If your students have been taught to criterion, as measured by the Oral Reading FluencyAssessments, there is much to celebrate. It is highly likely that your students are already ator above a third grade equivalence.1