Special Offspring Reading Hook Series Two

Contents

• Special Offspring Reading Hook Two
• Special Offspring Reading Hook Two includes...
• Special Offspring Reading Hook Two Mastered Sight Word Sets 1 - 13
• Special Offspring Reading Hook Two Mastery Evaluations

Special Offspring Reading Hook Two:

Special Offspring Reading Hook Series Two readers evolve from Beginning Sight Word Reading Series One building on all previously mastered sight words and text.  Integration of all curricular materials is an educational imperative.  Curricular integration affords the most effective and efficient means by which to implement distributed practice (practice and review of previously mastered skills, programmed into instruction over a long period of time).  Distributed practice is recognized as the most effective remediation technique for known short-term and long-term memory deficits.

Special Offspring reading Hook Series Two concentrates on "Me and My Body".  The Reading Hook series offers a personalized reading experience purposely designed to motivate or "hook" the student with Down syndrome or other developmental delays into reading.  Additionally, the Reading Hook format with blank lines for the student's name or personal names of friends in his/her world along with framed pages for the placement of that student's illustrations has text identical to Beginning Sight Word Reading Series Two.

Special Offspring Reading Program instructional materials have been formatted to offer identical skill practice in two similar yet different settings.  This practice targets a frequently overlooked skill deficit in children with developmental delays, the transfer of learning.  Children with Down syndrome and other developmental delays frequently experience an inability to transfer learned skills from one setting to a different setting.  Even though the text in the Special Offspring Beginning Sight Word Reading Series Two is identical to that of the Special Offspring Reading Hook Series Two, students often experience hesitation and diminished skill confidence required to read the material with ease.

Special Offspring Reading Hook Two includes...

(Grade 1/Grade 2)

• 13 Sight Word Introduction Books
• 13 Books A (first review of introduced words)
• 13 Books B (second review of introduced words)
• 88 Sight Word flashcards
• 7 Volume Sight Word Evaluations
• 6 Cumulative Sight Word Evaluations
• 1 Series One Review Book
• 1 Instruction Book

Special Offspring Reading Hook Two Mastered Sight Words Sets 1-13

"A" Books and "B" Books provide additional review and "relief" practice. Relief books allow for practice without the introduction of new words. Students may skip Book A and/or Book B, as needed. The books may be enjoyed at home, sustained silent reading or during leisure reading time.

Special Offspring Mastery Evaluations

Evaluation of reading progress and mastery must occur at regular intervals. Success in each Special Offspring Reading Hook set is dependent upon the mastery and maintenance of skills for all subsequent reader sets. All Special Offspring Reading Hook books have been organized into volumes. Each volume designation represents the introduction of ten to twelve new sight words. At the end of each volume, evaluation techniques are implemented to assess the mastery of sight words presented in that volume. As the number of mastered sight words increases with the completion of additional volumes, a cumulative sight word evaluation is provided to assess the long-term memory of all sight words to date. Volume and/or Cumulative Evaluations provided may be used to assess reading recognition or actual reading.

Reading Recognition Assessment:

Print and provide the student with the appropriate evaluation page. Read each sight word in random order. Ask the student to color, mark or put an "X" in the box that holds the correct word. Mastered words are all correctly identified words. This is the best assessment technique for cumulative sight word mastery.

Reading Assessment:

Print and provide the student with the appropriate evaluation page. Cover each word. Ask the child to remove a cover and to read the word. This technique is best suited for volume sight word evaluations.

Spontaneous Assessment:

Open the folder. Place a "+" on the right side of the folder. Place a "-" on the left side of the folder. The most appropriate format is to simply remember the right side represents a "+" or word mastery and the left side represents a"-" or words not yet mastered. In a one-minute review, ask the learner to read each sight word flashcard. Mastered sight word flashcards are placed on the right side. When a student hesitates or fails to respond, simply provide the word to the learner and place that flashcard on the left side. Return any unmastered sight word flashcards fro the word bank back into the one-minute review set.