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CONTENTS

Level 0.5, Packet 1

Booklet 1

    letter recognition; p.3 - vowels, p.4 - b,d,p,g, p.5 - vowels within words

    letter/sound correspondence; p.6 - words with r, p.7 - words with b, p.8 - words with /ā?/, p.9 - words with /ī?/, p.10 - words with th, p.11 - words with /ĭ?/,

    phonics rules; p.12 - words ending in silent e, p.13 - “2 vowels go walking”

    beginning/ending sounds; p.14 - same beginning sound as man, p.15 - same ending sound as big

    word family; p.16 – the ‘all’ word family tracing page, p.17 - matching

    scanning; p.18 - target words (play/playing, cat, said, find, with, fun), p. 19 - passage

Level 0.5

Booklet 2

    letter recognition; p.23 - vowels, p.24 - b,d,q,h, p.25 - vowels within words

    letter/sound correspondence; p.26 - words with r, p.27 - words with /ă?/  p.28 - words with /ō?/, p.29 - words with ch, p.30 - words with /ĕ?/

    phonics rules; p.31 - words ending in silent e, p.32 - “2 vowels go walking”

    beginning/ending sounds; p.33 - same beginning sound as done, p.34 - same ending sound as trick

    rhyming words; p.35 - words that rhyme with ‘blue’

    word family; p.36 – the ‘in’ word family tracing page, p.37 - matching

    scanning; p.38 - target words (they, want, like, with, friends, their), p. 39 - passage

Level 0.5

Booklet 3

    letter recognition; p.43 - vowels, p.44 - p,g,b,d, p.47 - vowels within words

    letter/sound correspondence; p.45 - words with r, p.46 - words with sh p.48 - words with /ē?/, p.49 - words with /ī?/, p.50 - words with /ĭ?/

    phonics rules; p.51 - words ending in silent e, p.52 “2 vowels go walking” beginning/ending sounds; p.53 - same beginning sound as king, p.54 - same ending sound as sad

    rhyming words; p.55 - words that rhyme with ‘shop’

    word family; p.56 – the ‘at’ word family tracing page, p.57 matching

    scanning; p.58 - target words (stars, sky, see, saw, said, they), p. 59 - passage

Level 1, Packet 1

Booklet 1, “The Man and the Bug”

    word search; p.3 - man, bug, wife, ate, water, plate, eat, said, like

    scanning passages and complete sentence practice ; pp 4 – 15,

    • target words, p. 4 - ate, late, hate, plate, eat, wife, water, like, want, said
    • p.8 - ate, plate, ice, rice, nice, said, want, some, now, water  p.12 - nice, cake,
    • rude, family, sorry, please, wife, piece, have, put

    context clues; p. 16 - water, animal, food, place, family

    • nouns; p.17 - things I like and hate
    • phonics; p.18 - long vowel sound
    • word families; p. 19 - ate, ice
    • comprehension practice; pp. 20, 21 - who and what multiple choice questions

Booklet 2, “Our Little Friend ing

    word search; p.25 – sing, song, king, crying, trying, place, will, story, happy, friend

    scanning passages and complete sentence practice ; pp 26 – 37,

    • target words, p. 26 – ing, try/trying, friend, see, word, syllable, place, sound,
    • is, he  p.30 – ing, king, saw, story, letter, sound, word, because, will,
    • happy p.34 – ring, sing, finger, crying, walking, family, food, will, gave,
    • song

    word sort (syllabication); p.38 – one and two syllable words 

    • nouns; p.39 – nouns, matching to descriptors
    • context clues; family, animal, place, story, water
      • comprehension practice; pp. 41,42,43 – ‘knowledge level’ multiple choice
      • questions

Booklet 3, “Have, Need, Want

    word search; p.25 – animals, people, water, food, babies, have, need, want, place, families

    scanning passages and complete sentence practice ; pp.48 – 59,

    • target words, p.48 family/families, people, have, need, food, babies, live,
    • care, grow, safe  p.52 – have, want, need, they, them, animals, live,
    • give, keep, part  p.56 – need, have, move, place/places, animals, some,
    • they, in, fins, swim

    word sort (categorization); p.60 – how people move, how animals move

    word sort (vowel sounds); p.61 – long i sound, short i sound

    comprehension practice; pp. 62, 63, 64 – ‘knowledge level’ multiple choice

    • questions

Booklet 4, “A Toad in the Road

    word search; p.67 – toads, frogs, tadpole, legs, hop, many, size, short, same, jump

    scanning passages and complete sentence practice ; pp.68 - 79,

    • target words, p.68 toad/toads, road, wants, like, hop, stop, over, away,
      • fast, catch  p.72 – short, long, skin, jump, kind, very, smooth, bumpy,
      • same, they p.76 – baby/babies, many, tadpoles, some, grow, move,
      • little, mother, toads, frogs

    word sort (vowel sounds); p.80 – long o sound, short o sound

    word sort (vowel sounds); p.81 – long i sound, short i sound

    context clues (kloze); p.82 - baby, like, land, swim

    word sort (matching); p.83 definition and categorization clues

    comprehension practice; pp. 84,85,86 – ‘knowledge level’ multiple choice

    • questions

Booklet 5, “The Boy Who Helps His Father

    word search; p.89 – helps, work, today, happy, father, with, tools, catch, fish, caught

    scanning passages and complete sentence practice ; pp.90 - 101,

    • target words, p.90 help/helps, his, father, work, with, tools, today, will, happy, liked p.94 yard, grass, rake, pick, helped, worked, mow, mower, mowed, said  p.98 – now, want, went, fishing, fish, catch, caught, and, have, home

    word sort (syllabication); p.102 – one and two syllable words

    word sort (vowel sounds); p.103 – long vowel sound, short vowel sound

    critical thinking; categorization, some words have multiple meanings

    comprehension practice; pp. 105,106,107 – ‘knowledge level’ multiple choice questions

    composition; p. 108 – prewriting activity,  p.109 “My Fish Story”

Level 1, Packet 2

Booklet 1, “Let’s Be Happy!”

    word search; p.3 want, sleep, happy, feel, play, will, sometimes, work, enough, good

    scanning passages and complete sentence practice ; pp. 4 - 15, target words, p.4 -  happy, easy, hard, play, sometimes, feel, matter, like, matter, like, want, work  p.8 – sometimes, angry, again, life, sad, cry, you, listen, will, must p.12 – enough, sleep, something, people, mood, nice, will, night, good, happy

    word sort (opposites); p.16 – easy, play, nice, happy, day, good

    word sort (vowel sounds); p.17 -long, short, r-controlled

    word sort (syllabication); p.18 - one and two syllable words

    critical thinking ; p.19 – categorization, some words have multiple meanings

    comprehension practice; pp. 20,21,22 – ‘knowledge level’ multiple choice

    • questions

Booklet 2, “A Swing and a Miss!”

    word search; p.25 - catch, strike, pitch, swing, laugh, baseball, through, threw, team

    scanning passages and complete sentence practice ; pp. 26 - 37, target words, p.26 – swing, want/wanted, strike, out, try/trying, laugh, team, every, sometimes, said  p.30 – pitch/pitcher, catch/catcher, chased, threw, brother, sister, practice, swung, hit, will p.34 - through, Saturday, watch, make/made, swing/swung, first, second, ran, when, baseball

    word sort (vowel sounds); p.38 – long e sound, short e sound

    word sort (syllabication); p.39 –one and two syllable words

    word sort (verbs); p.40 present and past tenses

    critical thinking ; p.41 – categorization, some words have multiple meanings

    comprehension practice; pp. 42,43,44 – ‘knowledge level’ multiple choice

    • questions

Booklet 3, “Our Little Friend ture

    word search; p.47 -  picture, mind, idea, nature, sea, see, creature, look, creature, think

    scanning passages and complete sentence practice ; pp. 48 - 59, target words, p.48 – friend, ture , another, word/words, syllable, sound, adventure, feature, picture, look  p.52 – picture, feature, minds, watching, movie, think/thinking, story, read, see, things p.56 – pictures, nature, creatures, venture, forest, paint, take, might, beautiful, camera

    word sort (syllabication); p.60 – one, two, and three syllable words

    context clues (kloze); p.61 – picture, idea, know, make, thinking, words

    word sort (vowel sounds); p.62 – long vowel, short vowel, r-controlled

    critical thinking ; p.63 – categorization, some words have multiple meanings

    comprehension practice; pp. 64,65,66 – ‘knowledge level’ multiple choice

    • questions

Booklet 4, “Time for Bed!

    word search; p.69 -  girl, bed, time, sleep, teacher, mother, she, want, together, go

    scanning passages and complete sentence practice ; pp. 70 - 81, target words, p.48 – bed, when, then, want/wanted, sleep, time, she, me, my, go  p.74 – wake, go/going, late, out of bed, school,  girl, mother, teacher, be, did  p.78 – for, work/worked, after, together, morning, her, inside, outside, story, dinner

    word sort (syllabication); p.82 – one, two, and three syllable words

    word sort (vowel sounds); p.83 – open syllable, closed syllable

    critical thinking ; p.84 – categorization, some words have multiple meanings

    comprehension practice; pp. 85,86,87 – ‘knowledge level’ multiple choice

    • questions

Booklet 5, “The Little Girl’s Adventure

    word search; p.91 – find, girl, adventure, beast, ship, gold, cave, map, pirate, distant

    scanning passages and complete sentence practice ; pp. 92 - 103, target words, p.92 – adventure, ship, cave, afraid, pirate/pirates, magic, wish/wished, map, sailed, found  p.96 – east, beast, feast, each, peach/peaches, reach, land, looked/looking, eat, compass p.100 – another, sleep/sleepy, caught, took/taken, want, he, girl, inside, ate, knew

    word sort (word families); p.104 – east, each, eat

    word sort (syllabication); p.105 – one, two, and three syllable words

    composition (literary elements); p.106 – ‘adventure’ elements

    critical thinking; p.107 – categorization, some words have multiple meanings

    comprehension practice; pp. 108,109,110,11, – ‘knowledge level’ multiple choice

    • questions

    composition; p.112 – pre-write activity p.113 – “My Adventure”

Level 1.5, Packet 1

Booklet 1, “The Two Kittens”

    word search; p.3 kittens, country, lady, everything, near, afraid, anything, who, worry, would

    scanning passages and complete sentence practice ; pp. 4 - 15, target words, p.4 -  kittens, named, momma, bigger, getting, everything, anything, homes, afraid, two p.8 – worry/worried, country, have, about, both, like/liked, they/them/their, would, nice, take p.12 – learned, grown, right, now, afraid, end, always, dog/dog’s, smart, you

    word sort (vowels sounds); p.16 – long i, short i

    word sort (syllabication); p.17 –one, two, and three syllable words

    composition; p.18 – answer questions with complete sentences

    comprehension practice; pp. 19,20,21,22 – ‘knowledge level’ multiple choice

    • questions

Booklet 2, “Things Change”

    word search; p.25  change, grow, tree, sun, moon, sky, love, children, when, other

    scanning passages and complete sentence practice ; pp. 26 - 37, target words, p.26 - change/changes, outside, sky, night/nights, sun, moon, see, another, go/goes, same  p.30 -  grow/growing, beautiful, leaves, tree/trees, green, again, anymore, living, does, when  p.34 -  grownup, love, maybe, bigger, taller, mother, father, other, grew/grow, children/ grandchildren

    word sort (syllabication); p.38 - one, two, and three syllable words

    word sort (vowels sounds); p.39 – long e, short e

    critical thinking; p.40 – categorization, some words have multiple meanings

    comprehension practice; pp. 41,42,43 – ‘knowledge level’ multiple choice

    • questions

Booklet 3, “Stories that Seem Real”

    word search; p.47  dream, asleep, awake, seem, vision, story, forget, see, mind, real

    scanning passages and complete sentence practice ; pp. 48 - 59, target words, p.48 real, seem/seems, about, place/places, they/their, awake, sleep/asleep, with, never, see p.52 remember, forget, tell, believe, will, you, might, dreams, some, try  p.56  dream, true, vision, remember, want, story, make, power, you, change

    word sort (word meanings); p.60 - opposites

    word sort (word meanings); p.61 – opposites

    word sort (syllabication); p.62 – one, two, and three syllable words

    critical thinking (categorization); p.63 – some words have multiple meanings

    comprehension practice; pp. 64,65,66 – ‘knowledge level’ multiple choice

    • questions

Booklet 4 “Our Little Friend tion

    word search; p.69  action, fiction, story, true, real, fable, animals, people, learn, nation, about

    scanning passages and complete sentence practice ; pp. 70 - 81 target words, p.70 syllable, fool, tion, action, nation, word/words, friend/friends, sound, try/trying, letter p.74 fiction, nonfiction story/stories, learn/learning, read/reading, real, nation/nations, true, about, things  p.78  foolish, because, fables, animals, people, action, adventure, smart, brave, fiction/nonfiction

    word sort (word meanings); p.82 - definition clues

    word sort (syllabication); p.83 – one, two, and three syllable words

    word sort (vowel sounds); p.84 – long o, short o, r-controlled

    critical thinking (categorization); p.85 – some words have multiple meanings

    comprehension practice; pp. 86,87,88– ‘knowledge level’ multiple choice 

    • questions

Booklet 5 “Try to Imagine

    word search; p.91  spaceship, oceans, would, could, oxygen, world, Earth, land

    scanning passages and complete sentence practice ; pp. 92 - 103 target words, p.92 would, could, oceans, continents, features, see, many, shades, the earth, from p.96 supplies, oxygen, remember, beautiful, something, journey, bring/brought, outer space, there, pictures  p.100 Earth, travel/traveled, planet/planets, universe, distant, because,reach, closer, returned, would

    word sort (syllabication); p.104 – one, two, and three syllable words

    critical thinking; p.105 – main idea/supporting details

    critical thinking (categorization); p.106 – some words have multiple meanings

    comprehension practice; pp.107, 108, 109 – ‘knowledge level’ multiple choice

    • questions

    composition prompt; p.110 – “My Spaceship Adventure”

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