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Level:
Beginning
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Level:
Basic
Blue
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Level:
Intermediate
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New - September 1, 2006
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Beginning Green Teacher's Manual
• Beginning Green Reading Book One
• Beginning Green Reading Book Two
• Beginning Green Workbook A
• Beginning Green Workbook B
Original
• Beginning I Teacher-Student Manual
• Beginning I Reading Book One
• Beginning I Reading Book Two
• Beginning I Workbook A
• Beginning I Workbook B
• Beginning Level Spelling Manual
The Lonely Vowels Teacher’s Manual, Reading
Book and Workbook are optional.
Many supplementary materials available
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Basic Blue Core Manual
• Basic Blue Reading Book One
• Basic Blue Reading Book Two
• Basic Blue Reading Book Three
• Basic Blue Workbook A
• Basic Blue Workbook B
• Basic Blue Workbook C
• Basic Blue Spelling Manual
• Supplementary materials also available
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Intermediate 1 Teacher-Student Manual
• Intermediate 1 Student Book
• Intermediate 1 Workbook
• Frostings, Doilies and More
• Teacher's Manual
• Frostings, Doilies and More Student Book
• Intermediate II Teacher's Manual (Draft Version)
• Intermediate II Student's Book (Draft Verison)
• Stevenson's Essential Grammar (See Catalogue) |
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READING
- In every lesson. Begins as soon as first five letters are
learned.
SPELLING - In every lesson. Students trained to discriminate
vowel sounds. Teacher feeds clues.
VOCABULARY - In every lesson. Unfamiliar words are introduced
early for language development exercise.
TYPING - Optional. Important for special students with
hand/eye problems.
PRINTING - In most lessons. Important clues for preventing
and remediating reversals.
COMPREHENSION - Foundation exercises. Fill-ins. Following
directions. Answering questions with yes or no in complete sentences.
GRAMMAR - Categorizing nouns, verbs and adjectives with
special concrete techniques.
DEFINITION - Defining verbs in simple sentences. |
READING
- In every lesson.
SPELLING - In every lesson. Student is weaned from
clues and masters encoding procedure.
COMPREHENSION - Structured sequence of exercises becomes
increasingly extensive as level progresses. Students learn
to answer who, what, where, when and naming questions in complete
sentences in writing.
VOCABULARY - Continued language development activities
throughout.
PENMANSHIP - Cursive writing available.
GRAMMAR - Prepositions added to continued work with
nouns, verbs, adjectives.
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READING
- In every lesson. Focus on multisyllable words.
SPELLING - In every lesson. Multisyllable words including
special procedure for prefixes (doilies) and suffixes (frostings).
VOCABULARY - Meanings of more sophisticated words. Changing
of meanings of words by addition of prefixes and suffixes.
COMPREHENSION - Answering more complicated questions
requiring inference.
DICTATION - Sentences with more complex vocabulary.
GRAMMAR - All parts of speech and all functions of parts
of speech in simple sentences (Stevenson's Essential Grammar). |
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INTEGRALS
1-102 (See Integral List for details)
500 to 600 word reading and spelling vocabulary mastered |
INTEGRALS
103-155 (See Integral List)
Previous Integrals form building blocks for increased vocabulary
development
Approximately 2000 words
Most common sound patterns of English mastered |
Integrals
compound words
re, ex, in, de, con, pro, pre, etc.
ei vs. ie, short ea
cle, dle, ble, etc.
tion, ion, ti=sh
-es, -ify, -ity, -ic, -ous, -al, etc.
-ly, ness,-less, -ment, etc. |
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Sounds and shapes of 24 lower case letters (all but x and q)
• 21 capital letters and two functions of capitals
• r vs. l, d vs. t, m vs. n, aural, oral and visual discrimination
• CVVC pattern (e.g. coat, beet, meat, pail)
• VVC pattern (e.g. oat, eat)
• CVV pattern (e.g. bee, sea)
• Two reading games, individual and group
• Homonyms ee vs. ea (mnemonics to begin resolution of
these spellings)
• Would, could
• Y replacing terminal i
• ai=ay
¥ ee=y
• CVCV pattern (e.g. lake, dime note, cube) • VCV
pattern (e.g. ape, ate)
• Hard g vs. soft g
• Hard c vs. soft c
• Suffix s (decoration)
• Buzzing s vs. letter z
• 22 two-letter consonant blends (e.g. bl, gr, st, etc.)
• 3 three-letter consonant blends (str, scr, spr)
• CCVVC, CVVCC, VVCC, CCVV, CCVCV, CCCVCV patterns (blends
added to previous patterns)
• But, buy, you, your, from, said, eye
• Long vowel words ending in ce, ve, se, ze |
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Review of all previous Integrals built in as comprehension work
increases
• Remaining letters
• All letter names
• Resolutions of spelling ee vs. ea
• Suffixes ing, ed, er (frostings)
• Words with ing (e.g. sing, ring)
• to do who too
• Abbreviations of Mr., Mrs., Dr., Ms.
• Compound words
• ight, ild, ind, old
• Digraphs th, ch, sh, wh
• Diphthongs oi, oy
• Words with all (e.g. call, fall)
• Words with ei (e.g. weight)
• R-controlled vowels (e.g. ar, er, ir, ur, wor)
• Diphthongs ou, ow (e.g. loud, clown)
• Contrast pronunciation of oa, o-e vs. ou, ow, vs. oo,
ew
• Introduction of w
• Resolution of spelling er, ir, ur, wor, etc.
• Resolution of spelling ou vs. ow
• Short vowels in reading and spelling
• au and aw
• Recognition of prepositions in sentences
• ea (e.g. head) and ea (e.g. great)
• ow (e.g. snow) |
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Compound Words Using Basic Blue integrals
• Special word attack steps for multisyllable words
• Introduction of prefixes (doilies)
• Long vowel, first syllable (e.g., hotel)
• Many new suffixes (frostings and decorations)
• ti and si as /sh/ sound
• Language development with question answering exercises
• Writing exercises with different grammatical structures |
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Multi-sensory and mnemonic presentation of letters
• Mnemonic approach to printing to prevent reversals
• Long vowel sounds to improve weak auditory discrimination
• Six Special Steps for isolating and articulating letter
sounds
• Seven Special Steps for decoding, blending and encoding
• Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich mnemonic for CVVC pattern
• Open Sandwich mnemonic for VVC and CVV patterns
• Layer Cake mnemonic for CVCV pattern
• Open Cake mnemonic for VCV pattern
• Concrete activities to identify nouns as name words and
verbs as action words
• Feed words to avoid drilling of sight words. |
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Continuation of Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich and Layer Cake
mnemonics to resolve difficult new materials
• New mnemonics for new vowel patterns
• Special sequence for comprehension development
• Frosting and decoration mnemonics for suffixes
• New mnemonics for digraphs
• Mnemonic resolution using stories for difficult spelling
problems (e.g. unlike spellings of identical sounds)
• Mnemonic resolution of pronunciation problems
• Specific decoding procedure for short vowel words using
Seven Special Steps
• Identifying most prepositions concretely as "position
words" |
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Suffix and prefix addition using mnemonic images and concrete
models (frostings and doilies)
• Scanning multisyllable words for vowel patterns
• Sequenced decoding strategy for multisyllable words
• Auditory discrimination exercises for multisyllable words
• Visual discrimination exercises for multisyllable words
• Transferring grammar skills to writing skills
• Managing silent consonants |
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