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Click on any picture below to sample teaching activities selected from a range of Headsprout Early Reading lessons.
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From Episode 2
Learners are 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
Learners are taught to say the sounds that go with each phonetic element, and then are 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
Learners begin to read sentences and perform basic comprehension tasks as early as Episode 5. Within about 10 hours of instruction, learners are independently reading stories like this and answering questions about characters they have come to know in the program. |
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From Episode 42
Early in the second half of the program, learners begin to use their 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
Learners are introduced to some of the types of comprehension exercises found on many of the standard reading tests they will encounter in a typical school year. In this example, learners are introduced to how to think about this kind of question. In later exercises, they answer completely on their own. Feel free to make some errors. |
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From Episode 72
After about 25 hours of instruction, learners are reading long passages and can successfully answer comprehension exercises like those found in this example. Comprehension questions in later episodes also include inference, prediction and even require perspective taking. |
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