My Favorite Reading Street Components

Getting a whole new reading curriculum can be overwhelming, especially when it arrives in about 8 different huge boxes!  I appreciate how each weeks gives us a ton of different materials that all relate to one common topic.  It makes it really fun to focus on one topic for the week and pick and choose which materials work with my kids.  At this point in the year, I've figured out my favorite parts of the Reading Street Curriculum that we've received.  Here are some examples from a week long material on pandas.

The guided readers work really well for my groups that are right at grade level.  They would be way too easy for my higher readers, so I usually pull different materials for those groups.

A fiction and non-fiction read aloud are provided on the topics. They provide great opportunities for our work with retelling, comprehension, and predictions. 

My most used components are either the big books or the retelling cards.  Who doesn't love big books?? The retelling cards are great for using throughout the week to think back on the book we read and identifying important details.