CompuRead Level 1 - Stories 1-12

NOTE: THE DESCRIPTION BELOW APPLIES TO ALL 3 MODULES

Level 1 – Story 3, Sid and the Fig is a story about a young boy who’s trying to train his dog, Tag. Sid tries to get his dog, Tag, to sit in a lid, but Tag refuses to do so, until he sees the fig that Sid has.

Our story opens with Tag sitting under a fig tree while Sid is trying to get his dog to sit. This story introduces the letters; i, h, and l in a fun and memorable way.

The PRESTORY BACKGROUND tells of the background in a wonderful and informative background story of our fig seed, Fritz, and how he grows into a fig tree. It begins how Fritz is sorted and selected, along with his “brothers and sisters” to become fig trees and how a fig tree is planted, tended and finally transplanted to become a tree that yields the delicious-tasting fig.

LISTENING TO THE STORY NARRATED adds greatly to the learning process. It helps the student to learn in three ways:

    • Listening with the audio narration.

    • Seeing the words on the computer’s screen.

    • 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.

As with all CompuRead stories, it includes relevant questions with answers to further help the student to fully understand the concepts being taught.

THE PHONICS, WRITING AND SPELLING section emphasizes listening. This helps the student to understand how the target sounds, i, h, and l, are formed and sounded along with recognizing the spoken sound.

This section also includes:

    • Writing Directions

    • Body Writing

    • Sound Sentences

    • Letter Blends, and

    • Questions about the letters just learned

FICTION AND NON-FICTION 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.

SCIENCE BACKGROUND tells about the science of fig trees and how they are used and where they are grown and is easily understandable for children to fully understand the life cycle of a fig tree.

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.

HOME FUN continues with providing fun and engaging activities the student can do at home to enhance the overall story structure and concepts learned.

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.

See Module 1 Description

Module 2 contains the steps 4-6;

• Phonics, Writing and Spelling (Step 4),

• Fiction/Non Fiction Writing (Step 5), and

• Vocabulary and Expressive Speaking (Step 6)

These steps are critical for the student to accomplish as many of the activities and exercises as the teacher feels is needed. However, please don’t skip over these activities, they’re here for the student to fully grasp the reading process and story comprehension. They prepare the student for more challenging and advanced reading skills within the CompuRead Program.

The CompuRead Program is noted for its success due to the step-by-step and skill-by-skill process whereby the student takes small steps in learning to read. Take your time and allow the student to learn at their own pace and success will be assured.

See Module 1 Description

Module 3 contains the steps 7-9;

• Science Background (Step 7),

• Story Mapping (Step 8) and

• Home Fun (Step 9)

These steps in the reading process provide additional reading experiences for the young reader in expanding reading education. These steps greatly assists the student along the path of fluent reading and writing. Don’t forget to download the Reading Skills Review and Certificate of Completion upon completing this course.

NOTE: THE DESCRIPTION BELOW APPLIES TO ALL 3 MODULES

Level 1-Story 4, Tin Man in a Pit – Letters r, n, m and p.

Tin Man in a Pit is a story about a young boy, Sam, who finds a Tin Man stuck in a pit. He tries to pull the Tin Man out, not quit succeeding, but after several attempts, he finally gets the Tin Man Pat free from the watery pit.

The story is written around the phonetic elements of r, n, m and p and shows the reader how each letter is used in words.

The MAIN IDEA, “I Will Keep A Careful Lookout To Avoid Accidents.” This Value Theme shows how a child can be safe and at the same time assist others in need.

The PRESTORY BACKGROUND tells about Tin Man Pat and Tin Town. Everyone in town is made of tin and very rusty. That’s all the town’s people have ever known. Tin Man Pat told everyone in town that there were real people that could run, think and read, but no one believed him.

Then one day, the oldest man in town, Craydon, came in to town. He was asked by Tin Man Pat if he knew if people were real and indeed he did. Craydon invited Tin Man Pat to his home and asked him to go on a special quest to find the magic oil. The oil would return all the people of Tin Town back to real people.

Tin Man Pat succeeds in his quest and has many adventures along the way and saves the people of Tin Town.

The prestory background is a wonderful story of how one person, with love and dedication, can help others in dire need.

LISTENING TO THE STORY WITHOUT INTERRUPTION 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 letters; r, n, m and p in:

Writing Directions

• Body Writing

• Sound Sentences

• Quickie Questions

• Blends and Words to Sound, Read and Spell, and

• Sight Words

FICTION NONFICTION WRITING includes genres that the CompuRead program stories are written under and emphasizes the story title, main idea being creative in personal writing .

VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIVE SPEAKING includes relevant phrases that enhances the student’s vocabulary and sight word mastery.

SCIENCE BACKGROUND tells about tin and the tin mining process.

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.

And of course, 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 now learn about the letters r, n, m and p in the story of Tin Man Pat in a Pit.

See Module 1 Description

Module 2 contains the steps 4-6;

• Phonics, Writing and Spelling (Step 4),

• Fiction/Non Fiction Writing (Step 5), and

• Vocabulary and Expressive Speaking (Step 6)

These steps are critical for the student to accomplish as many of the activities and exercises as the teacher feels is needed. However, please don’t skip over these activities, they’re here for the student to fully grasp the reading process and story comprehension. They prepare the student for more challenging and advanced reading skills within the CompuRead Program.

The CompuRead Program is noted for its success due to the step-by-step and skill-by-skill process whereby the student takes small steps in learning to read. Take your time and allow the student to learn at their own pace and success will be assured.

See Module 1 Description

Module 3 contains the steps 7-9;

• Science Background (Step 7),

• Story Mapping (Step 8) and

• Home Fun (Step 9)

These steps in the reading process provide additional reading experiences for the young reader in expanding reading education. These steps greatly assists the student along the path of fluent reading and writing. Don’t forget to download the Reading Skills Review and Certificate of Completion upon completing this course.

NOTE: THE DESCRIPTION BELOW APPLIES TO ALL 3 MODULES

Level 1-Story 5, The Tin Can Pig emphasizes the letters short /a/ and /i/ in review.

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 were 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 and 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 WITH NARRATION allows the student to hear and see the words pronounced and demonstrates 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 spoken by others.

This section continues with activities for letters a and i and uses:

Writing Directions

• Body Writing

• Sound Sentences

• Quickie Questions

• Blends and Words to Sound, Read and Spell, and

• Sight Words

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 of Realistic Fiction, that The Tin Can Pig is written under.

VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIVE SPEAKING 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.

SCIENCE BACKGROUND tells about about community organizations that assist local citizens with community service projects such as cleaning local city parks.

STORY MAPPING again 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 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.

See Module 1 Description

Module 2 contains the steps 4-6;

• Phonics, Writing and Spelling (Step 4),

• Fiction/Non Fiction Writing (Step 5), and

• Vocabulary and Expressive Speaking (Step 6)

These steps are critical for the student to accomplish as many of the activities and exercises as the teacher feels is needed. However, please don’t skip over these activities, they’re here for the student to fully grasp the reading process and story comprehension. They prepare the student for more challenging and advanced reading skills within the CompuRead Program.

The CompuRead Program is noted for its success due to the step-by-step and skill-by-skill process whereby the student takes small steps in learning to read. Take your time and allow the student to learn at their own pace and success will be assured.

See Module 1 Description

Module 3 contains the steps 7-9;

• Science Background (Step 7),

• Story Mapping (Step 8) and

• Home Fun (Step 9)

These steps in the reading process provide additional reading experiences for the young reader in expanding reading education. These steps greatly assists the student along the path of fluent reading and writing. Don’t forget to download the Reading Skills Review and Certificate of Completion upon completing this course.

Level 1-Story 6, Tot Hog is a little hog, (piglet) that gets sick and is taken by his father and mother, Pop Hog and Mom Hog, to the doctor. They have to travel through the fog to get to the doctor and is put on a little cot. After the doctor gives Tot Hog a little pill, Tot Hog is better and gets to go home with this father and mother. Tot Hog also got a hat from the doctor.

The story is written around the phonetic elements of the short o, the ff and ll ending and shows the reader how each letter is used in words.

The MAIN IDEA, “I Will Be A Good Patient When I Visit The Doctor.” This Value Theme shows the student that doctors are here to help us get better when we are sick.

The PRESTORY BACKGROUND tells about how we get sick and about the germs on our hands when we play outside, play with toys, dig in the dirt and touch all kinds of things all day long. The days end, Mom Hog called Tot Hog into dinner. He did not wash his hands.

Later that evening, Tot Hog said he was feeling sick and his mom asked if he had washed his hands after playing, and of course he said he had not.

Mom teaches Tot Hog about germs on our hands and how we can get sick by not keeping our hands clean when we use them.

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 letters; short o, and the ff and ll ending by using:

• Pronouns

• Listening to my Own Voice

• Writing Activities and Directions

• Body Writing

• Discussion Activities

• Sound Sentences

• Quickie Questions

• Blends and Words to Sound, Read and Spell, and

• Sight Words

FICTION NONFICTION WRITING includes several genres that the CompuRead program stories are written around. Writing also emphasizes personal creativity.

VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIVE SPEAKING includes relevant phrases that enhances the student’s vocabulary and sight word mastery. Tot Hog includes listening to words added in a sentence, challenging the young student to listen carefully to repeat the exact sentence, a highly useful brain exercise and activity.

This section also includes an exercise in words with multiple meanings, antonyms, or opposite word meanings and many phrases.

SCIENCE BACKGROUND tells about fog and its definition, what it is and how it forms. In addition, there’s more science about hogs and piglets.

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 learn about the letters, short o and the ending letters ll, and ff.

See Module 1 Description

Module 2 contains the steps 4-6;

• Phonics, Writing and Spelling (Step 4),

• Fiction/Non Fiction Writing (Step 5), and

• Vocabulary and Expressive Speaking (Step 6)

These steps are critical for the student to accomplish as many of the activities and exercises as the teacher feels is needed. However, please don’t skip over these activities, they’re here for the student to fully grasp the reading process and story comprehension. They prepare the student for more challenging and advanced reading skills within the CompuRead Program.

The CompuRead Program is noted for its success due to the step-by-step and skill-by-skill process whereby the student takes small steps in learning to read. Take your time and allow the student to learn at their own pace and success will be assured.

See Module 1 Description

Module 3 contains the steps 7-9;

• Science Background (Step 7),

• Story Mapping (Step 8) and

• Home Fun (Step 9)

These steps in the reading process provide additional reading experiences for the young reader in expanding reading education. These steps greatly assists the student along the path of fluent reading and writing. Don’t forget to download the Reading Skills Review and Certificate of Completion upon completing this course.

NOTE: THE DESCRIPTION BELOW APPLIES TO ALL 3 MODULES.

Level 1-Story 7, The Log Lot is about Molly, Tot Hog’s little sister and all the trouble Molly gets into.

She’s wondered off and no one can find her. She thinks she doesn’t need anyone to watch her and to take care of her.

Molly’s parents are very concerned and send Tot Hog to find Molly. Tot Hog tracks Molly down and finds her in a log lot and opens the gate to get Molly out. After Tot Hog rescues Molly, he brings her back to their mom and dad.

The story is written around the phonetic elements of the short o and shows the reader how this letter is used in words.

The MAIN IDEA, “I Will Tell An Adult Where I Am Going,” demonstrates to the reader that keeping track of younger brothers and sisters is very important.

The PRESTORY BACKGROUND tells about how families can look after one another and keep children from wondering off and getting into trouble, especially staying away from those who might want to do children harm.

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 the letters; short i and o and includes:

• Writing Directions

• Body Writing

• Sound Sentences

• Quickie Questions

• Blends and Words to Sound, Read and Spell, and

• Sight Words

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 of Animal Tale/Fiction that The Log Lot was written under.

VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIVE SPEAKING includes relevant phrases that enhances the student’s vocabulary and sight word mastery. The Log Lot includes the introduction of prepositions and how they are used in writing and speaking. Lower and higher vocabulary is continued and provides the student with an excellent activity in vocabulary practice.

SCIENCE BACKGROUND tells about trees and logging and how it helps us make houses and many other items. It talks about the logging industry, paper and how long a tree might need to grow.

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 Log Lot introduces the period and the question mark and how they are used in reading and how one could use them to emphasize words while reading with expression.

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 now read about all the trouble Molly gets into and how Molly is rescued by Tot Hog.

See Module 1 Description

Module 2 contains the steps 4-6;

• Phonics, Writing and Spelling (Step 4),

• Fiction/Non Fiction Writing (Step 5), and

• Vocabulary and Expressive Speaking (Step 6)

These steps are critical for the student to accomplish as many of the activities and exercises as the teacher feels is needed. However, please don’t skip over these activities, they’re here for the student to fully grasp the reading process and story comprehension. They prepare the student for more challenging and advanced reading skills within the CompuRead Program.

The CompuRead Program is noted for its success due to the step-by-step and skill-by-skill process whereby the student takes small steps in learning to read. Take your time and allow the student to learn at their own pace and success will be assured.

See Module 1 Description

Module 3 contains the steps 7-9;

• Science Background (Step 7),

• Story Mapping (Step 8) and

• Home Fun (Step 9)

These steps in the reading process provide additional reading experiences for the young reader in expanding reading education. These steps greatly assists the student along the path of fluent reading and writing. Don’t forget to download the Reading Skills Review and Certificate of Completion upon completing this course.

NOTE: THE DESCRIPTION BELOW APPLIES TO ALL 3 MODULES.

Again, Molly has wondered off 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. Further more, 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.

See Module 1 Description

Module 2 contains the steps 4-6;

• Phonics, Writing and Spelling (Step 4),

• Fiction/Non Fiction Writing (Step 5), and

• Vocabulary and Expressive Speaking (Step 6)

These steps are critical for the student to accomplish as many of the activities and exercises as the teacher feels is needed. However, please don’t skip over these activities, they’re here for the student to fully grasp the reading process and story comprehension. They prepare the student for more challenging and advanced reading skills within the CompuRead Program.

The CompuRead Program is noted for its success due to the step-by-step and skill-by-skill process whereby the student takes small steps in learning to read. Take your time and allow the student to learn at their own pace and success will be assured.

See Description in Module 1

Module 3 contains the steps 7-9;

• Science Background (Step 7),

• Story Mapping (Step 8) and

• Home Fun (Step 9)

These steps in the reading process provide additional reading experiences for the young reader in expanding reading education. These steps greatly assists the student along the path of fluent reading and writing. Don’t forget to download the Reading Skills Review and Certificate of Completion upon completing this course.

NOTE: THE DESCRIPTION BELOW APPLIES TO ALL 3 MODULES.

As little pigs do, Tot Hog really made a mess of everything. In our story, Level 1-Story 9, A Hug for Mom Hog, shows how Tot Hog loves to be in the mud. He sloshed all around, covering himself with wonderful gummy mud.

After a while, Mom Hog saw Tot Hog and wanted to give him some gum, but when Tot Hog came out of the mud hut, he was covered from head to toe with gummy mud. He ran to his mom to give her a hug, but Mom Hog did not want to be covered with all that mud.

After Tot Hog was finished playing in the gummy mud, mom gave Tot Hog a bath in a tub. She had to rub and rub to get all the mud off Tot Hog. After Tot Hog was all cleaned up, Mom Hog now wanted to give him a great big hug and emphasizes the value of personal cleanliness in the Main Idea of I Will Keep Myself Clean.”

The story is written around the phonetic elements of the short ‘a, i, o, u’ and shows the reader how each letter is used in words.

The PRESTORY BACKGROUND tells about hugging and when it’s OK to hug someone and when it’s not. It talks about who we can hug, when it’s OK to hug someone and at times to just shake hands and be friendly.

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 letters ‘a, i, o, u’ by using:

• Ending sound blends

• Contractions

• Sound Sentences

• Blends and Words to Sound, Read and Spell

• Sight Words

• Categorizing Words

• Onomatopoeia, or the sounds that imitate an action

The comma is introduced and many activities are shown to have the student use and understand the comma in reading and writing.

FICTION NONFICTION WRITING emphasizes the story title, main idea and the specific genre of Animal Story/Fiction that A Hug for Mom Hog was written under.

VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIVE SPEAKING includes relevant phrases that enhances the student’s vocabulary and sight word mastery. Word definitions are emphasized along with the low and high vocabulary phrases always present in the CompuRead program.

SCIENCE BACKGROUND talks about huts and what a hut is and how it’s made.

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.

A Hug for Mom Hog includes Parent Insights and how parents can greatly influence their children’s ability in learning to read.

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.

Module 2 contains the steps 4-6;

• Phonics, Writing and Spelling (Step 4),

• Fiction/Non Fiction Writing (Step 5), and

• Vocabulary and Expressive Speaking (Step 6)

These steps are critical for the student to accomplish as many of the activities and exercises as the teacher feels is needed. However, please don’t skip over these activities, they’re here for the student to fully grasp the reading process and story comprehension. They prepare the student for more challenging and advanced reading skills within the CompuRead Program.

The CompuRead Program is noted for its success due to the step-by-step and skill-by-skill process whereby the student takes small steps in learning to read. Take your time and allow the student to learn at their own pace and success will be assured.

See Module 1 Description

Module 3 contains the steps 7-9;

• Science Background (Step 7),

• Story Mapping (Step 8) and

• Home Fun (Step 9)

These steps in the reading process provide additional reading experiences for the young reader in expanding reading education. These steps greatly assists the student along the path of fluent reading and writing. Don’t forget to download the Reading Skills Review and Certificate of Completion upon completing this course.

NOTE: THE DESCRIPTION BELOW APPLIES TO ALL 3 MODULES.

Level 1-Story 10, Uncle Sim and the Well Signal Bell is a story about the early settlers and pioneers and how valuable a well was to everyone in the family.

At the time of the story, Uncle Sim an old man explains to Jan, his granddaughter, how he and his “mama” and “papa” built a water well by their home. It explains the hard work involved and how everyone in the family contributed to digging the well.

During the time of Uncle Sim, all wells were dig by hand and even many neighbors helped dig. When the well was finished, a stone rim or wall, and many times a well cover was built around it and a bell was placed over the well to signal neighbors about what’s happening in the area.

The story is written around the phonetic elements of the short /e/ and letters y, v, w, and the letter blend /lp/ and shows the reader how each letter is used in words.

The MAIN IDEA, “Much Can Be Accomplished When Families Work Together,” and shows how families working together can become closer and get many things done for their family.

The PRESTORY BACKGROUND tells about how wells were dug, what they were used for and how a bell was used to provide a way to signal neighbors living within hearing distance of your bell. In addition, the prestory background tells about the settling of land by families looking for their own land and what they had to do to survive the difficult conditions.

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 spoken by others.

These activities are:

• Auditory Recognition

• Writing Directions

• Body Writing

• Sound Sentences for reading and writing

• Quickie Questions

• Blends and Words to Sound, Read and Spell, and

• Sight Words

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, Historical Fiction, that “Uncle Sim” was written under.

VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIVE SPEAKING includes relevant phrases that enhances the student’s vocabulary and sight word mastery. This story also helps the reader to learn and understand how our whole head helps us talk. Plus dozens more learning activities and games for the young reader including; phrases, student teacher talk, learning about definitions and a classroom game for all to play.

SCIENCE BACKGROUND tells about wells and water management and how water is distributed to homes, farms and ranches.

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 to include home activities and parent insights and parents and children can be involved with at home activities to assist in the 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 about how Uncle Sim told this story to Jan, his granddaughter in Uncle Sim and the Well Signal Bell.

See Module 1 Description

Module 2 contains the steps 4-6;

• Phonics, Writing and Spelling (Step 4),

• Fiction/Non Fiction Writing (Step 5), and

• Vocabulary and Expressive Speaking (Step 6)

These steps are critical for the student to accomplish as many of the activities and exercises as the teacher feels is needed. However, please don’t skip over these activities, they’re here for the student to fully grasp the reading process and story comprehension. They prepare the student for more challenging and advanced reading skills within the CompuRead Program.

The CompuRead Program is noted for its success due to the step-by-step and skill-by-skill process whereby the student takes small steps in learning to read. Take your time and allow the student to learn at their own pace and success will be assured.

See Description in Module 1

Module 3 contains the steps 7-9;

• Science Background (Step 7),

• Story Mapping (Step 8) and

• Home Fun (Step 9)

These steps in the reading process provide additional reading experiences for the young reader in expanding reading education. These steps greatly assists the student along the path of fluent reading and writing. Don’t forget to download the Reading Skills Review and Certificate of Completion upon completing this course.

NOTE: THE DESCRIPTION BELOW APPLIES TO ALL 3 MODULES.

Level 1-Story 11, Elf Eck, is a story about a mother hen who’s visited by a magical elf that has marvelous magical powers.

The story is written around the phonetic elements the short e and the k, x, z, ck, qu and shows the reader how each letter is used in words.

The MAIN IDEA, “I Will Help Where I Am Needed,” demonstrates the value of a single person assisting where they can most serve others while making everyone’s journey a little lighter.

The PRESTORY BACKGROUND provide an excellent way for the student to understand events leading to Elf Eck coming to earth. Elf Eck is from another planet, Platonian, and travels to earth and is hatched from an egg and how a special mother hen raises her newly arrived Elf Eck and helps the people of earth.

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 in:

• Writing Directions

• Body Writing

• Sound Sentences

• Quickie Questions

• Blends and Words to Sound, Read and Spell, and

• Sight Words

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, Science Fiction, that Elf Eck was written under.

VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIVE SPEAKING includes poetry, sight words, sounding and spelling words from the story and phrases to increase a young child’s vocabulary and sight word mastery.

SCIENCE BACKGROUND includes a discussion of how a chick hatches from an egg – a very interesting description for a young child’s mind.

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 the 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 Courses program.

Now Elf Eck is waiting for us to discover how he helps others in need.

Module 2 contains the steps 4-6;

• Phonics, Writing and Spelling (Step 4),

• Fiction/Non Fiction Writing (Step 5), and

• Vocabulary and Expressive Speaking (Step 6)

These steps are critical for the student to accomplish as many of the activities and exercises as the teacher feels is needed. However, please don’t skip over these activities, they’re here for the student to fully grasp the reading process and story comprehension. They prepare the student for more challenging and advanced reading skills within the CompuRead Program.

The CompuRead Program is noted for its success due to the step-by-step and skill-by-skill process whereby the student takes small steps in learning to read. Take your time and allow the student to learn at their own pace and success will be assured.

See Module 1 Description

Module 3 contains the steps 7-9;

• Science Background (Step 7),

• Story Mapping (Step 8) and

• Home Fun (Step 9)

These steps in the reading process provide additional reading experiences for the young reader in expanding reading education. These steps greatly assists the student along the path of fluent reading and writing. Don’t forget to download the Reading Skills Review and Certificate of Completion upon completing this course.