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$5.99 including GST
Now that the student has learned to decode and encode simple CVC, CCVC and CVCC words composed on the basic code, we step up to working with consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant (CCVCC) word structures composed of high frequency letter-sound links.
Why blending? Learning to decode letters into speech sounds, and then to blend the speech sounds together to form words is a fundamental reading skill for all students in their first year of schooling.
Why read and write the words? Early encoding (writing) practice helps consolidate early decoding (reading) skills (and vice versa).
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$15.00 including GST
In this 25-page no-prep resource, we target three things at once:
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- encoding (or spelling) targets that mirror decoding practice (e.g with decodable books);
- high frequency sentence structures used in English; and
- English sentence punctuation conventions.
Our encoding and sentence structure targets are sequenced from simple to complex:
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- In Part A, we target simple sentence structures (like SV, SVO, SVC, SVA, and SVOA) requiring only knowledge of the basic code.
- In Part B, we target compound sentence structures (using decodable conjoining conjunctions like “and”, “but”, “yet”, and “so”) requiring knowledge of split digraphs, how to encode two-syllable (decodable) polysyllabic words.
- In Part C, we target complex sentence structures (using subordinating conjunctions, like “because”, “if”, “while”, “before”, “after”, “until”, “unless” “although”, and “otherwise”) and knowledge of high frequency extended code diphthongs and digraphs following the early Sounds Write sequence.
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$65.00 including GST
Many writing programs start at the discourse (or text type) level, with tasks like recounts, procedures, and stories. For many students, however, this is too advanced and sets them up for failure. Texts are made up of paragraphs, and paragraphs are made up of sentences. Let’s start with sentences and work our way up!
In this 340+ page workbook, you will learn how to write simple sentences, using a range of high-frequency sentence structures. Introductory writing exercises include subject-verb (SV), subject-verb-object (SVO), subject-verb-complement (SVC), subject-verb-adverb (SVA), and subject-verb-object-adverbial (SVOA) phrase sentences.
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$40.00 including GST
Within any class, writing skills vary widely – even into high school. To tailor writing support to each student, and to figure out quickly where a student is at with their writing skills, we’ve developed this short criterion-referenced assessment tool.
Starting with simple, compound, and complex sentences, we then screen writing skills with short answer questions using high-frequency academic verbs (e.g. describe, outline and explain). Next we step-up to questions requiring paragraph-length answers and verbal reasoning. Finally, we look at students’ narrative writing skills.
This no-prep 35-page screener is designed to elicit several writing samples. In addition to screening sentence, paragraph and short text composition skills, the multiple samples elicited enable you to comment on overall cohesion, patterns of spelling and punctuation errors, as well as handwriting. We’ve chosen topics that don’t require specific technical knowledge to control for background knowledge and are relatively age-neutral.
We’ve also included a 13-page Scoring Checklist (Google Form) so you may score your students’ results.
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$95.00 including GST
In this 500+ page workbook, we teach students of all ages to write compound sentences featuring the FANBOYS coordinating conjunctions. The acronym FANBOYS (‘for’, ‘and’, ‘nor’, ‘but’, ‘or’, ‘yet’, & ‘so’) – is a useful way to learn and remember coordinating conjunctions.
In our workbook, we define compound sentences and explain the different functions of each coordinating conjunction. We then provide lots of scaffolded sentence models, sentence-combination practice, and independent practice to help students acquire and automate the skill.
