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  From Episode 2

  Your child is taught to hear a sound, and then select the correct phonetic element (letters). make sure you see all three activities: hearing & seeing the sound & letters together, clicking on the letters representing the sounds, and picking out the letters (phonetic element) from other letters.

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  From Episode 10

  Your child is taught to say the sounds that go with each phonetic element, and then is taught to say the sounds so that they blend into recognizable words. This is a critical strategy for sounding-out words. After saying the word out loud, be sure to click on the character that said the word like you did!

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  From Episode 30

  Your child begins to read sentences and perform basic comprehension tasks as early as Episode 5. Within about 10 hours of instruction, your child will be independently reading stories like this and answering questions about characters he or she has come to know in the program.

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  From Episode 42

  Early in the second half of the program, your child begins to use his or her reading and comprehension skills to build meaningful sentences, and to express the meaning they see in pictures. Don’t exit this activity too early: be sure to see both types of activities in this example.

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  From Episode 53

  Your child is introduced to some of the types of comprehension exercises found on many of the standard reading tests he or she will encounter in a typical school year. In this example, your child is introduced to how to think about this kind of question. In later exercises, he or she answers completely on their own. Feel free to make some errors!

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  From Episode 72

  After about 25 hours of instruction, your child is reading long passages and can successfully answer comprehension exercises like those found in this example. Your child is only 8 episodes away from reading ‘What Lives in the Sea?’!

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