| What To Expect Across the Lessons |
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| Episodes 1 - 23: "Crack the Code" |
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- students learn letters represent sounds
- students learn sounds go together to make words
- students learn the critical strategies of:
- finding sounds in words (segmenting),
- saying contiguous sounds (blending), and
- saying the word based upon hearing themselves say blended sounds
- reading vocabulary grows up to 50 words
- 10 print stories are provided as part of students' lessons
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| Episodes 24 - 40: "Make Sense Out of Reading" |
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- students learn in one lesson what previously took two or three lessons
- students learn sounds make up words, words make sentences and stories
- stories increase in length and complexity
- reading vocabulary increases up to 500 words
- 20 more print stories are provided
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| Episodes 41 - 56: "Accelerate and Diversify" |
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- the pace of the program again quickens
- multiple individual sounds are learned and applied in the very same lesson
- students practice segmenting and decoding with compound and nonsense words
- students experience a greater emphasis on comprehension
- 11 stories are read that contain new vocabulary, decodable words, and themes
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| Episodes 57 - 80: "Read for Meaning and Enjoyment" |
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- one to two stories are read per lesson
- poetry and expository text are introduced
- students experience more challenging comprehension and critical thinking activities
- passage-reading fluency is greatly extended
- vocabulary increases up to 5,000 words
- 39 more stories are provided, including chapter books (80 stories in all)
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