Description
Level 4 – Story 7 – Delicious to the Core (96 pages) targets the ‘ble to zle’ sounds. The Stories Main Idea/Theme is: Young People Can Accomplish Difficult Tasks.
Activities include; Clean Apples and Squishy Plums – A Poem, compound, sight, consonant ‘le’ words, Fast Phonics – A Game, Tongue Twisters: When wasp swatters swap, watch the wasps get swatted, and many more, along with cloze procedure review of schwa sound and snooping for the ‘sh’ sound.
It also includes synonyms for ‘difficult’: hard, involved, troublesome, puzzling, etc., close procedure for compound words, relevant and irrelevant sentences, categorizing animals, vegetables and fruit along with a Helping Senior Citizens Chart on how one can help a senior citizen by…, and comparative and superlative words, ‘er’ and ‘est’.
Other activities are; Our Five Senses – Looks, feels, smells, tastes, sounds, creative thinking: What if…, uses of a tire hanging from an apple tree.
Science is all about apples, and Home Fun is making stories in sequence .
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.