CompuRead Level 1 Story 8 Molly's in the Mud

Description

NOTE: THE DESCRIPTION BELOW APPLIES TO ALL 3 MODULES.

Molly has wondered off…, again, and in Level 1 – Story 8, Molly’s in the Mud, no one knew where she was. Molly always seems to be up to something and this time she’s been cornered by a big dog that’s not being nice.

To get away from the dog, Molly ran off and found a mud hut that her brother, Tot Hog, had built some time ago. Molly hid in the mud hut. This is where Tot Hog found Molly and Tot Hog is forced to defend Molly from the big dog. He throws soft mud balls at the big dog and the dog runs away. Molly helped by making the mud balls for Tot Hog.

The story is written around the phonetic elements of ‘u’, ‘b’ and the ‘all’ ending and shows the reader how each letter is used in words. The narration provides further reading skills by listening to the words and sentences allowing the learner to not only see the word, but to hear it pronounced.

The MAIN IDEA, “I Will Help Keep Track Of Younger Brothers And Sisters,” demonstrates the need to keep younger children from harm.

The PRESTORY BACKGROUND tells about Molly and how she can get into trouble easily and how older brothers and sisters can help their parents by keeping track of little children.

LISTENING TO THE STORY WITHOUT NARRATION allows the student to hear the words pronounced along with viewing the story on screen, demonstrating the relationship between letters, words and sounds.

PHONICS, WRITING AND SPELLING provides the student with creative ways to listen to their voice, and to recognize the sound that’s said by others.

This section continues with activities for upper and lower case letters, U and B by using:

· Listening to my Own Voice

· Auditory Recognition

· Writing Directions

· Body Writing

· Sound Sentences

· Quickie Questions

· Blends and Words to Sound, Read and Spell

· Correct Punctuation, and

· Sight Words

Beginning and ending sounds are also introduced.

FICTION NONFICTION WRITING includes several genres that the CompuRead program stories are written around. It also emphasizes the story title, main idea and the specific genre, Animal Story/Fiction, that Molly’s in the Mud was written under.

VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIVE SPEAKING includes relevant phrases that enhances the student’s vocabulary and sight word mastery. Molly’s in the Mud emphasizes difference between the ‘d’ and ‘b’ and introduces compound words for student mastery. High and low vocabulary words and phrases are continued.

SCIENCE BACKGROUND talks about mud and soil and the difference between the two. Furthermore, the science background talks about the many uses of mud and soil around the world.

STORY MAPPING again reviews the story telling and writing process and shows the various aspects of writing and how a story is composed.

HOME FUN contains activities the student can be involved with at home to assist in his learning to read process.

The Reading Skills Review provides a way for the student and teacher to review the concepts learned and tracks the student’s progress through the CompuRead program.

Let’s read all about how Molly and Tot Hog in Molly’s in the Mud.

What You Will Learn!

• Learn about the short ‘u’, ‘b’, the ‘all’ ending
• Learn the phonetic elements of the English Language
• Learn about sentence order
• Learn Reading Comprehension Skills of; Literal, Inference, Critical
• Learn how to write fiction and nonfiction writing
• Learn about the question and exclamation marks
• High and low vocabulary phrases and parts of speech and the written word
• The importance of keeping track of our brothers and sisters

Who Should Attend!

• This course, as well as all other lectures produced by CompuRead, are written for the learning disabled in understanding the learning to read process
• Any student, gifted or not, wanting to more fully understand the details of the English language
• Teachers and parents needed a detailed understanding of the teaching process in learning to read

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