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Early Reader Primer
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
- Phonics
- Rhyming Words
- Recognizing Initial And Final Sounds
- Learning Vowel Sounds
- Sight Word Recognition
- Getting The Main Idea
- Drawing Conclusions
Highlighted Features
- Reinforces correct answers to encourage students
- Includes high interest, yet easy to read stories
- Vocabulary and comprehension skill building mode 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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