[Story Town] Grade 2.2 - Blast Off! Theme 6 : Teacher Edition (2009)

This 2nd grade Individual Teacher Edition provides everything the teacher needs for successful instruction of Harcourt StoryTown, Blast Off, Level 2-2, Theme 6. When it comes to lesson organization, StoryTown features a consistent lesson design, giving your students a solid foundation from which to build upon, offering a whole new world of opportunity. Each lesson includes:

Focus Skills such as character, setting and plot events
Robust Vocabulary focusing on student friendly explanations
Core Literature with genre study
Companion Story
Think Critically selections engaging in question, answer, response
Opportunities for connections including text to text, text to self, and text to world

Each StoryTown 2nd grade Teacher Edition offers research based phonics instruction that builds on phonological and phonemic awareness. StoryTown offers explicit, systematic phonics instruction with the following lesson outline:

Connecting letters to sounds
Word blending
Word building
Using letter sound correspondences to spell words
Applying with decodable text