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Level 5 - Story 6 – Gertie and Burt
Authors
CompuRead; Margaret W. Turner
Publisher
CompuRead
Description
Level 5 – Story 6 – Gertie and Burt (96 pages) targets the soulds of ‘er in fern, Ir in bird, ur burn, or in word and wor’ in world.

The Main Idea or Character-building Theme: Best Friends Can Be Very
Different.

The story is also written in manuscript and cursive and includes the following activities; Prefix, suffix, double consonant, one syllable, multisyllable, compound, sight, proper names and places words, adding prefixes at the beginning and suffixes to endings of words, Review of known ‘ie’ words, Drawing Conclusions, Little Stories to Answer, Synonyms to Underlined word, Simple Subject and Predicate, Complete Subject and Predicate, Adjectives, Spelling Manuscript, Slant Manuscript and Cursive, Reading and writing ‘er, ir, ur, wor’ sentences and Quickie Questions.

Other activities include; Many Meanings of Words, Saying ‘r’ Tongue Twisters and Jump the Rope Rhymes.

Science is all about What is a Desert and what are Water Turtles.
The Encyclopedia and the internet.

Parent Insights: The only reason knowledge exists is to pass it on to
others. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Let people see you learning in every way you can.

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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