Description
Level 6 – Story 7 - Justin’s Decision targets ‘ism and con’. The Main Idea/Theme: The Choices We Make In Youth Affect Our Future Dreams
The story is written in manuscript and cursive and contains features; Familiar to unfamiliar words, Difficult things for me, Writing sentence endings, Matching Cause and Effect, Thinking back about Justin;s Decision
‘un’ prefix Words, Multisyllable Words and Spelling Sentences.
It also features words about “receiving something free without working for it’: gift, pass, giveaway, generous, game, play, sport. Retelling “Justins’ Decision” on the radio, Figurative Language, Justin’s Feelings, Making Decisions to last a Lifetime and Proper Times to Laugh.
Science is about the game of basketball and Home Fun: A Tommy in Your Life.
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.