Genre: Modern realistic story with familiar setting, two characters and patterned language in question and answer format.Learning Objectives: Word RecognitionStrand 5: Recognize automatically an increasing number of familiar high frequency words.Language ComprehensionStrand 8: Visualise and comment on events, characters, and ideas, making imaginative links to their own experiences.
Genre: A play with a familiar setting, patterned language and predictable structure.Learning Objectives: Word RecognitionStrand 5: Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the prime approach to reading and spelling unfamiliar words that are not completely decodable.Language ComprehensionStrand 4: Act out stories, using voices for characters.
Genre: A modern story with a familiar setting and predictable structure.Learning Objectives: Word RecognitionStrand 5: Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the prime approach to reading and spelling unfamiliar words that are not completely decodable.Language ComprehensionStrand 7: Use syntax and context when reading for meaning.
Genre: A realistic modern story with a limited variety of sentence structures.Learning Objectives: Word RecognitionStrand 5: Recognize automatically an increasing number of familiar high frequency words.Language ComprehensionStrand 7: Make predictions showing an understanding of ideas, events and characters.
Genre: Modern realistic story with a predictable structure and some variation in text patterns.Learning Objectives: Word RecognitionStrand 5: Recognize and use alternative ways of pronouncing the graphemes already taught, e.g. ‘c’ in ‘pencil’ and ‘case’, and ‘g’ in ‘gym’ and ‘got’.Language ComprehensionStrand 7: Make predictions showing an understanding of ideas, events and characters.
Genre: Fantasy story with familiar characters and setting, and predictable structure.Learning Objectives: Word RecognitionStrand 5: Recognize and use alternative ways of spelling the graphemes already taught, for example, that the grapheme ‘s’ is pronounced differently in ‘said’ and ‘his’. Language ComprehensionStrand 7: Identify the main events and characters in stories.
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(Rigby Educational Publishers, Aug. 1, 2000)
Genre: A modern realistic story with a familiar setting and predictable structure.Learning Objectives: Word RecognitionStrand 5: Read more challenging texts which can be decoded using their acquired phonic knowledge and skills, along with automatic recognition of high frequency words.Language ComprehensionStrand 7: Recognize the main elements that shape different texts.
Genre: Modern story with animal characters and a theme of conversation.Learning Objectives: Word RecognitionStrand 5: Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the prime approach to reading and spelling unfamiliar words that are not completely decodable.Language ComprehensionStrand 7: Use syntax and context when reading for meaning.