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  • Early sound blending practice 6

    (R216) Early sound blending practice 6: CCVCC words – starting with a continuant

    $5.99 including GST

    Now that the student has learned to decode and encode simple CVC, CCVC and CVCC words composed on the basic code, we step up to working with consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant (CCVCC) word structures composed of high frequency letter-sound links.

    Why blending? Learning to decode letters into speech sounds, and then to blend the speech sounds together to form words is a fundamental reading skill for all students in their first year of schooling.

    Why read and write the words? Early encoding (writing) practice helps consolidate early decoding (reading) skills (and vice versa).

  • (R219) Listen then Write: ‘Old School’ Daily Sentence Dictation Practice

    $15.00 including GST

    In this 25-page no-prep resource, we target three things at once:

      • encoding (or spelling) targets that mirror decoding practice (e.g with decodable books);
      • high frequency sentence structures used in English; and
      • English sentence punctuation conventions.

    Our encoding and sentence structure targets are sequenced from simple to complex:

      • In Part A, we target simple sentence structures (like SV, SVO, SVC, SVA, and SVOA) requiring only knowledge of the basic code.
      • In Part B, we target compound sentence structures (using decodable conjoining conjunctions like “and”, “but”, “yet”, and “so”) requiring knowledge of split digraphs, how to encode two-syllable (decodable) polysyllabic words.
      • In Part C, we target complex sentence structures (using subordinating conjunctions, like “because”, “if”, “while”, “before”, “after”, “until”, “unless” “although”, and “otherwise”) and knowledge of high frequency extended code diphthongs and digraphs following the early Sounds Write sequence.
  • Simple Sentence Writer 1: Subject Verb Sentences

    (R501) Think then Write Foundations: Simple Sentence Writer 1: Subject Verb Sentences

    $6.99 including GST

    This is the first in our series of simple sentence writers, focusing on Subject-Verb constructions, e.g. “The boy is swimming.” (25 pages).

    Many writing programs start at the discourse (or text type) level, with tasks like recounts, procedures, and stories. For many students, however, this is too advanced and sets them up for failure. Texts are made up of paragraphs, and paragraphs are made up of sentences. Let’s start with sentences and work our way up!

    Some students, including students with language and other learning disorders, dyslexia, and people who are learning English as a second language, have difficulties writing simple sentences. In this series, we provide simple scaffolds to help people to understand, speak, and write in grammatically correct sentences.

  • (R502) Think then Write Foundations: Simple Sentence Writer 2: Subject-Verb-Complement and Subject-Verb-Object Sentences

    $6.99 including GST

    This is the second in our series of simple sentence writers, focusing on Subject-Verb-Complement and Subject-Verb-Object constructions, e.g. “The boy is happy.” and ”The girl is making a cake.” (44 pages).

    Many writing programs start at the discourse (or text type) level, with tasks like recounts, procedures, and stories. For many students, however, this is too advanced and sets them up for failure. Texts are made up of paragraphs, and paragraphs are made up of sentences. Let’s start with sentences and work our way up!

    Some students, including students with language and other learning disorders, dyslexia, and people who are learning English as a second language, have difficulties writing simple sentences. In this series, we provide simple scaffolds to help people to understand, speak, and write in grammatically correct sentences.

  • Think and Write Foundations A SSW3 SVA SVOA

    (R503) Think then Write Foundations: Simple Sentence Writer 3: Subject-Verb-Adverb and Subject-Verb-Object-Adverb Sentences

    $6.99 including GST

    This is the third in our series of simple sentence writers, focusing on Subject-Verb-Adverb (SVA) and Subject-Verb-Object-Adverb (SVOA) constructions, e.g. “The boy is running quickly.” and ”The girl is making a cake in the kitchen.” (45 pages).

    Many writing programs start at the discourse (or text type) level, with tasks like recounts, procedures, and stories. For many students, however, this is too advanced and sets them up for failure. Texts are made up of paragraphs, and paragraphs are made up of sentences. Let’s start with sentences and work our way up!

    Some students, including students with language and other learning disorders, dyslexia, and people who are learning English as a second language, have difficulties writing simple sentences. In this series, we provide simple scaffolds to help people to understand, speak, and write in grammatically correct sentences.