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Baby Jake's Birthday: Decodable Sound Phonics Reader for Long A Word Families
Paperback
Series: Spelling the Short and Long Vowel Sounds, Book 6
Publisher Price: $13.00
ISBN13: 9780648310242
Publisher: Clever Speller Pty Ltd
Published: Jul 1 2018
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.10 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Learn to spell naturally with stories! This engaging phonics story brings spelling to life and is full of Long A sound words, providing authentic context to make sense of phonics. Read about How Jane and Jamie are helping at Baby Jake's Birthday party, and enjoy learning to spell 9 was to spell the Long A sound at the same time!
The story includes 103 Long A words plus spelling and story based learning activities, word list and spelling groups, tricky words, reading comprehension, homophones, homonyms and homographs and a grapheme chart. The Long A sound letters are printed in green making it easy to 'sound out' words.
Clever Speller's unique story based learning approach to spelling helps students aged 4-10 to develop phonemic awareness, learn all the ways to spell sounds in words and improve grammar.
Easily Learn to Spell with Clever Speller Phonics Stories
Stage 1: Develop Phonemic Awareness, the ability to hear sounds in words. Listening to phonics stories full of words with a focus sound makes developing this skill easy and natural.
Stage 2: Learn all the Ways to Spell Sounds in Words with phonics stories full of words showing the different ways to spell a focus sound.
Stage 3: Perfecting Grammar, story based activities make learning to clearly communicate meaningful and connected
Clever Speller Phonics Stories Make Phonics Easy
- Read the phonics story 'Baby Jake's Birthday' and listen for words with a Long A sound
- Break words into sounds, eg h-ay. This is often called 'sounding out'
- Spell the Long A sound words by saying each individual sound of the word and then the whole word, eg h-ay, hay
- Learn all the ways to spell the Long A sound in words
Helping Students to Enjoy Learning to Spell
For students with Dyslexia and Learning Difficulties:
- spelling is confusing and doesn't make sense
- words seem to run together
- reading is hard work and not fun
This is because of difficulties with:
- hearing sounds in words
- learning letter sound associations
- blending sounds together
- identifying beginning, middle and end sounds in words
- learning tricky sight words
- reading fluency
- retrieving words from vocabulary
How Clever Speller helps:
- phonics stories are full of words with a focus sound
- all the ways to spell the focus sound are in one place
- stories provide the context for phonics to make sense
- easy to follow word family patterns
- focus sound words are grouped in lists from simple to complex
- tricky sight words are grouped into a focus sound
- rhyming stories help with predicting and memory
- recalling spelling is much easier from a story than from a spelling list
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