Level 1 – Story 4 – The Earthquake targets the sounds of ’ear’ in early, ‘aw’ in paw, ‘au’, in fault. The Main Idea/Theme: I Can Help Orhers Survive In A Time Of Crisis. The story is written in manuscript and cursive. It features riddles, A Riddle, words for Sound, Read, Write and Spelling, adding ‘er’ and est’ to adjectives to Compare, ‘This and That’ Singular, Plural ‘those and ‘these’, Words With Many Meanings, New Thinking
Extended View of Story, Homophones and Spelling Sentences.

It also has Synonyms for Survival: persist, pull through, carry on, recover, etc., Purpose of Story, Sensory Impressions, Heroines, Directions: East-West and Fact or Opinion.

Science is about predicting earthquakes and the instruments used to record earthquakes. Home Fun: Planning for a flood or an earthquake
Parent Insights: What man radiates

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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