CompuRead Level 1 Story 5 The Tin Can Pig
CompuRead Multisensory Beginning Reading and Writing - Early Reading and Learning Intervention
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What You Will Learn!
- Students will learn sounds of letters; r, n m, and p in a review.
- Learn about the punctuation of the exclamation and the question mark.
- Learn Picture Comprehension Skills of; Observation, Obvious Clues, Description or Translation, Unobvious Clues.
- Learn critical skills about reading and spelling such as; body writing, phrases, poems and rhymes.
- Increase vocabulary with poetry.
- Early reading intervention for all students beginning their learning to read experience.
Description
Level 1-Story 5, The Tin Can Pig emphasizes the letters short /a/ and /i/ in review.
MODULE 1
The Prestory Background opens with the Princess of Bloom being returned to Tin Town and her father, the Prince of Doom is still not satisfied and wants to make everyone unhappy.
Princess Bloom wants her father to be happy and sets out to find 2,000 parks in the world that are clean. But every park the princess flew over was very dirty. Then quite by accident she flew over one park and saw two young men, Nat and Tim, cleaning a park.
Nat and Tim picked up lots of trash, including many tin cans. They have no idea what to do with it all. Princess Bloom is delighted when she sees them having fun making a pig – a tin can pig.
The Main Idea is, “I Will Respect the Environment By Keeping Our Surroundings Cleaner.” This Value Theme shows how a student can keep clean and also perform community service at the same time.
Listening to the Story Narrated adds greatly to the learning process. It helps the student to learn in many ways:
Listening with the audio narration.
Seeing the words on the screen and how they are spelled and pronounced by the narrator, all in a real human voice, not a computerized voice common in today’s digital learning world.
demonstrates the relationship between letters, words and sounds.
As with all CompuRead stories, it includes relevant questions with answers to further help the student to fully understand the concepts being taught.
MODULE 2
The Phonics, Writing and Spelling section emphasizes listening. This helps the student to understand how the target sounds, a and i, are formed and sounded along with recognizing the spoken sound, either by themselves or by others.
This section also includes:
Writing Directions
Body Writing, understanding genres
Sound Sentences
Quickie Questions
Blends and Words to Sound, Read and Spell, and
Sight Words
Listening to the narration
Following directions
Letter blends
Fiction and Nonfiction Writing works with the student in writing about the main idea or value theme as it relates to the student’s own personal experiences. As always, this section provides the student with story starters and synonyms to assist the student in their creative writing efforts.
Vocabulary and Expressive Speaking shows the student how words are expressed in a higher meaning. This greatly enhances the student’s ability to associate lower vocabulary words with higher vocabulary words. Throughout the CompuRead lessons, the Vocabulary and Expressive Speaking section is invaluable in building a powerful and diverse vocabulary for future creative writing and speaking.
It also includes relevant phrases that enhances the student’s vocabulary and sight word mastery. Within this story there are several poems that enhances the student’s ability to see and hear poems that have a poetic meter with rhyme.
MODULE 3
Science Background tells about about community organizations that assist local citizens with community service projects such as cleaning local city parks.
Story Mapping provides the student with a head start in understanding the story’s structure and layout. It explains many aspect of story construction and flow, demonstrating to the student advanced story telling aspects, concepts and techniques.
It reviews the story telling and writing process and shows the various aspects of writing and how a story is composed. The story mapping section details how any story can be mapped and what questions an author could ask to enhance the overall written composition.
Home Fun continues with providing fun and engaging activities the student can do at home to enhance the overall story structure and concepts learned and 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.
Who Should Attend!
- Any student desiring to increase reading fluency and comprehension.
- Beginning students starting out in the learning to read process.
- Parents seeking a highly effective reading method to teach a young child to read fluently.
- Students struggling in learning to read due to a learning disability, such as dyslexia.
- The gifted dyslexic child struggling in learning to read.
