Description
Level 6 – Story 9 – The Mystery of the Disagreeable Servant and targets: Suffixes ‘able, ence’, ‘y’ in mystery. The Main Idea/Theme is: The Love Of Gold Leads People To Do Strange Things. The story is written in manuscript and cursive and features: ‘able, ant, ence, suffixes words to sound and spell, ‘be’ and ‘re’ prefix words, review of ‘ci’ in social, ‘ti’ in question, ‘si’ , in vision , ‘su’ in treasure, ‘tu’ in future, More About Pronouns, Personal Subject Pronouns, Using I, she, you, he, we, they in the correct way, Both Nouns and Pronouns as Subject of Sentences, In Doubt Which Pronoun to Use, In Speaking of Other People, Speak of others First, Verb ‘be’ Am, is, are, was, were, Objective Pronouns: me, you, him, her, it, us, themselves, Become an Author and a Performer
Synonyms for “Said”: called, insisted, yelled, shouted, snarled, etc., Spelling Sentences, Quick Spot Game and Learning From Old Friends.
Other activities are: words about :love of gold”: grub, seek, quest, pursue, assay, etc., Tongue Twisters.
Science is about sounding. Home Fun: Give credit for success to learner.
Words of Life’s Journey.
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.