Treasures Reading Series

Our school has a reading series called Treasures. This series is available from the publisher MacMillan McGraw-Hill. It is an amazing series with which you can not go wrong as long as you just do and say what it says. It has each lesson broken into parts which include the five basic parts of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency.) It also includes spelling, writing, and grammar. I have to credit this series with my students high reading abilities! It has been a true success! There are 3 stories/selections to read each week in the main hardback book. There are also decodable readers (a stories with words that the students should be able to sound out based on the lessons that week). There are oral vocabulary sections to boost the students oral language skills. The grammar is presented on a very challenging level. At first, all of the students really struggled with the grammar. The skills being taught in second grade are like the skills that are taught in fourth grade in other reading series. After using the series for a few months the students adjusted and are now doing quite well. There are many resources including a very helpful website with activities that anyone can access--even someone without the textbook series. Check it out sometime! http://treasures.macmillanmh.com/utah/students