As many of you know, we have begun to re-design the Intermediate Level of the Stevenson Program, including Frostings, Doilies and More.  The project will take a couple of years, but some of our first ideas have been posted on our web site under "Latest News."  To view them, click on the attachment (a pdf file) under "Suggestions and Instruction to Enhance the Intermediate Level."  We will revise and add to these lessons over the summer. 

For those of you who are going to use the Intermediate Level next school year, you may find this material to be very helpful.  If you look at the lessons now posted, you can see that we are focusing on compound words and words with two or three vowel patterns (and therefore two or three syllables).  This approach allows you to review the vowel patterns from the Beginning Green and Basic Blue Levels while building word-attack skills and developing a much larger vocabulary.  Combining review and forward progress in this way may come in very handy in late August and September.  If you have any thoughts or questions about this approach, do not hesitate to call us over the summer or bring it up in Facebook discussions.  (See Facebook article above.)

Happy vacationing.