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Early Reader Grade 1
These fully illustrated and patterned stories are designed to allow emergent readers to learn independently at their own level and pace. Each story provides opportunities for students to learn, practice, and apply phonetic rules and to develop word recognition and comprehension skills. More importantly these stories invite children to read for interest and pleasure.
Targeted Skills
- Rhyming Words
- Recognizing Initial And Final Sounds
- Learning Vowel Sounds
- Sight Word Recognition
- Sequencing
- Drawing Conclusions
- Getting The Main Idea
- Factual Recall
- Making Inferences
- Opposites
- Synonyms
Highlighted Features
- Stories and questions are presented with audio the first time through
- Stimulating illustrations accompany each page of text
- Phonics, word recognition and comprehension skill building questions for each story
- A help system ensures that readers are never stuck
- Wide variety of questions to develop decoding, word recognition and comprehension
- Can be used by any number of students, over and over, year after year
- Colorful illustrations motivate students and reinforce comprehension
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