Level 5 – Story 10 – A Day in the Sheep Business (76 pages) targets the sounds of silent ‘b’ and ‘h’ ,o + es’ in echos. The Main Idea/Theme: Some Ways To Make A Living Are Very Hard.

Written in manuscript, slant manuscript and cursive written and includes the following activities; Sheep – A Poem, Riddles about Sheep, Silent ‘b’ and ‘h’ Words, Root words ending ‘o’ + ‘es’, Accented Words, Suffix ‘ness’, Using ‘ness’ and ‘less’ words in sentences, Writing Spelling sentences, Solving a difficult problem chart: I solved a difficult problem by…,
Picture words to bring a story to life, Finding picture words in books and Weather Conditions.

Also includes much poetry, e.g., The Sheep Herder’s Lament, Synonyms for ‘earning a hard living’: toil, trouble, worry, fret, stress, etc., How Weather Affects All of Us, the use of Affect and Effect.

Science is about the Weather and Llamas and how they are used in the sheep industry.

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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