Level 2 – Story 9 – The Witch that Shivered (64 pages) is a great story that targets the ending consonant digraphs ‘itch, atch, otch, utch, etch.’
The Main Idea/Theme: I Know Older Family Members Have Their Friends. I Can’t Always Tag Along.

Polly Patches has lots of poetry, tongue twisters, limericks and riddles to teach in a fun yet effective way

It features telling time with a.m. and p.m., cloze procedure, jumping rope rhyme for months of the year, consonant blends ‘cl, dr, fr, pr, st, sw, str, br, abbreviations and pantomiming.
The science section tells all about cats, pumpkins and Halloween.

Parent Insights: Listening to your learner through self expression.

As with all stories in the CompuRead series, each is organized in the same format of nine steps, increasing in difficulty and skills as: 1) Main Idea, 2) Title, Background and Summary, 3) Narrated Without Interruption, 4) Phonics, Straight and Slant Manuscript, Cursive Writing and Spelling, 5) Fiction and Nonfiction Writing, 6) Vocabulary and Expressive Speaking, 7) Science Background, 8) Story Mapping and, 9) Home Fun.

Grade level instruction in Phonics, Comprehension, Speaking, Language, Writing, Character Building and Listening are embedded within the nine steps. All reading levels benefit from the thirty-nine unique CompuRead innovations.

A Certificate is awarded at the end of every story which reviews every skill learned.

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