Description
Level 6 – Story 10 – Maurice Mouse and the Monitor, targets the sounds of: ‘ph,, age, pro, com’. The Main Idea/Theme: When You Know You’re Right, Stick With It, And Prepare Yourself To Accomplish Great Tasks.
The story is composed with the manuscript and cursive fonts. It features:
Appreciating Humor, A Mystery Box, Adverbs, Cloze Procedure About Computers, Making Your Sentences Clear and Easily Understood, Creative Writing to Pantomime and A lifelong Writing Assignment.
Activities also include words about “knowing you are right” and thinking and discussing about the future.
Science is about life before the world wide web and the computer and Finding a Real Web. Home Fun: Stick to Your Guns, Computers change, Learning to read does not.
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.