My school uses the toolkit, strategies that work and making meaning. I think the making meaning is a watered down version of the toolkit. I will sometimes introduce the strategy using making meaning and then reinforce using the toolkit. I teach third grade and we have discovered that some of the texts used in the toolkit are above our students so we use alternate texts. Since the toolkit covers grades 3-5 we have passed on some of the texts to the upper grades and we are always searching for titles we can use for the lessons. We are currently trying to compile a list for each grade. The toolkit lessons can also be a bit lengthy. The second grade classes have the student notebooks for making meaning but for some reason they were not ordered for third grade. I will just make my own worksheets if needed.
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