Using Teacher Resources in Imagine Language & Literacy

Similar to the functionality available in Lesson Explorer and Activity Explorer, you can play digital Imagine Language & Literacy activities directly from Teacher Resources. However, Teacher Resources also provides the accompanying offline resources such as supplemental printouts, classroom activities, reteaching lesson plans, and other print materials to use in a blended learning environment. These offline materials correlate directly with Imagine Language & Literacy curriculum so you can plan lessons or one-on-one intervention sessions around the same actionable skills your students are practicing. 

To use Teacher Resources:

1. Log in to Imagine Language & Literacy.
2. From the header at the top of any page, click Teacher Resources.
   
3. Teacher Resources is divided into 3 tabs: Literacy (the default tab), Language, and Tools. The activities in each tab are grouped by curriculum area, then by actionable skill. 
   

    Note

   An alternate way to access the resources from each curriculum area is via the top navigation bar. The bar also contains links to the resources specific to Seuss Corner, the Lesson Explorer, and the Offline Resources.
   

4. Click into a section below to see a description of each tab.

   Literacy

   The Literacy tab contains these curriculum areas:

   Curriculum Area	Skills Taught
   Print Concepts	Teaches students to recognize, name, and write uppercase and lowercase alphabet letters.
   Phonological Awareness	Teaches students about rhyming words, phonemes, onset-rime blending, phoneme placement, and phonemic segmentation.
   Phonics	Teaches students how to associate sounds with letters, letter blends, and digraphs.
   Decodable Words	Teaches students how to decode words using vowel sounds and word patterns.
   High-Frequency Words	Teaches students how to recognize and understand high-frequency words from the Fry Word list.
   Spelling Patterns	Teaches students how to spell words that use different word family patterns, words that contain short vowels and vowel teams, and words that begin or end with letter combinations.
   Reading Vocabulary	Teaches students how to encounter new words and phrases they encounter in Intermediate Decodable Books and Books by Lexile, and reading vocabulary skills such as affixes, context, figurative language, and more.
   Reading Comprehension	Teaches students reading comprehension and analysis skills such as main idea, compare and contrast, and more.
   Read-Along Books	Teaches students how to follow along while a book is read aloud to them and answer simple comprehension questions about the book.
   Science of Reading	Helps students build decoding skills and apply phonics knowledge to read and write words and simple sentences.
   Primary Decodable Books	Introduces students to Primary Decodable Books, reading vocabulary, and comprehension questions, as well as provide instruction and support for individual letter sounds, phonics, short vowels, and vowel teams. Students also learn how to recognize and read regularly-spelled words, decodable words, and high-frequency words and understand them in context.
   Intermediate Decodable Books	Helps students practice reading vocabulary and reading comprehension for bridge texts so they can successfully transition from Primary Decodable Books to Books by Lexile. Intermediate Decodable Book lessons include pre-reading activities that help students teach, practice, and assess vocabulary words used in bridge texts, including vocabulary practice with multi-syllabic and compound words. The lessons also include activities where students practice and review advanced letter sounds.
   Books by Lexile	Introduces students to leveled texts, which they read independently or with support, that teach reading vocabulary, reading comprehension skills, and writing about story elements.

   Vocabulary

   The Vocabulary tab contains these curriculum areas:

   Curriculum Area	Skills Taught
   Basic Vocabulary	Teaches students to basic vocabulary words and their meanings.
   Academic Vocabulary	Teaches students beginning, intermediate, and advanced academic vocabulary words and their meanings.
   Conversational Phrases	Teaches students basic conversational phrases and conversational fluency.
   Listening Comprehension	Teaches students how to identify parts of speech in what they hear and practice comprehending spoken discourse.
   Grammar	Teaches students concepts such as nouns, personal pronouns, comparative adjectives, simple past tense, and more.

   Tools

   The Tools tab contains these curriculum areas:

   Curriculum Area	Skills Taught
   Tutorials	Teaches students to use the mouse and trackpad and explains the Imagine Island and Imagine Museum learning environments.
   Test Readiness	Students learn how to use technology to answer reading comprehension questions and listen for meaning.
   Songs & Chants	Students learn vocabulary and practice phonemic awareness through music.

5. Click the tile of the area you want to view.
   
6. Click an arrow to open up a section.
   
7. Hover over an activity and click Play to open the activity. 
   
   Then click the pulsating play button to launch the activity. You'll see the activity as your students see it, but, if it is a scored activity, you will not get a score for completing it .
   
8. Click a hyperlink to open/download a PDF document.