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Special Offspring Reading Hook One:
Special Offspring Reading Hook Series One offers 54 of the most commonly used sight words for Kindergarten and/or First Grade. These 54 words have been selected to create story lines whose focus is "me", the core of the child's world and an important intrinsic motivator. Reading Hook Series One can be personalized in both text and illustrations allowing students to be the main character in each reader. The Special Offspring Reading Hook Series One offers a personalized reading experience intended to motivate or "hook" the reader on reading. Additionally the Reading Hook Series One format with blank lines for personal names and framed pages for the placement of that student's illustrations or pictures has text identical to the Special Offspring Beginning Sight Word Reading Series One. Special Offspring Reading Hook Series One is formatted to offer identical skill practice in two similar yet different resources to target a frequently overlooked skill deficit, transfer of learning. Children with Down Syndrome and other developmental delays frequently experience an inability to transfer learned skills from one setting to a new and different setting. In other words, students often experience hesitation and diminished skill confidence required to successfully read text in the Beginning Sight Word Reading Series, even though it is identical to that of the Reading Hook Series.
Special Offspring Reading Hook One includes...
(Kindergarten/Grade 1)
- 25 Sight Word Introduction Books
- 21 Books A (first review of introduced words)
- 17 Books B (second review of introduced words)
- 54 Sight Word flashcards
- 4 Punctuation flashcards
- 5 Volume Sight Word Evaluations
- 4 Cumulative Sight Word Evaluations
Many children with Down syndrome and other developmental delays attain success with the introduction of 3-5 new pieces of information. The range 3-5 equals the number of memory channels of children with developmental delays. No more than four words are introduced in a Special Offspring Reading Hook One set.
| Sets 2- 10 |
Introduction of two sight words in each numbered book. |
| Sets 15 - 22 |
Introduction of three to four sight words in each numbered book. |
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Special Offspring Reading Hook One Mastered Sight Words Sets 1-22
| Set 1 |
am
me
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I
yes |
Set 9 |
as |
same |
Set 17 |
eye
two |
one
with |
| Set 2 |
is |
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Set 10 |
big |
little |
Set 18 |
cat
you |
dog |
| Set 3 |
a |
boy |
Set 11 |
if |
or |
Set 19 |
at
three |
look |
| Set 4 |
girl |
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Set 12 |
be |
will |
Set 20 |
are
in |
book
there |
| Set 5 |
my |
name |
Set 13 |
man |
woman |
Set 21 |
about
read |
but
was |
| Set 6 |
have |
no |
Set 14 |
he |
she |
Set 22 |
draw |
for |
| Set 7 |
not |
the |
Set 15 |
has
woman's
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man's |
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| Set 8 |
boy's |
girl's |
Set 16 |
and
see |
can |
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"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 Sight Word Reader set is dependent upon the mastery and maintenance of skills for all subsequent reader sets. All Special Offspring Beginning Sight Word Readers have been organized into volumes. Each volume designation represents the introduction of approximately ten 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.
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