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The following dictations should be given as per a normal Reading Made Simple dictation. Follow the instructions to know where to start your child.
Passage 1: Jack sits on the soft sand to snack on crisps. A gust of wind lifts his best hat and sends it into the pond. Jack is cross. The hat cost a lot. He grabs the hat and runs to his truck. He will not trust the wind. The cap is in the black truck. Two or more errors in this dictation indicates that the pupil should start with the /a/ family and progress through Level 2 at a rate of one family a week. If the pupil has less than two errors, then s/he should try the next dictation passage. Passage 2: In the morning, Frank and Jack sat chatting on a bench and munched thick chips. Frank dropped three chips and a gull took them up onto the school roof. Quick as a flash, Frank grabbed the chips and sprang up from the bench. He and Jack went and sat in the car before the gull took more. Two or more errors in this dictation indicates that the pupil should start with the /oo/ family and progress through Level 2 at a rate of one family a week. If this dictation is completed with less than 2 errors, the child should start with the a-e family and progress at the rate of one sound family per week. Here is a list of the resources available to support you in the teaching of Level 2 of Reading Made Simple, a 100% FREE phonic reading and writing programme. As for Level 1, we have a range of resources to support learning. Of course, we cannot cover for every eventuality. Thankfully the web is full of wonderful ideas to help children over certain difficulties. Therefore, if your child is still stuck with something after having been taught a lesson, be it Powerful 'e' (often called Silent 'e', Magic 'e' or Lazy-e) or when to use er/ir/ur, or whatever it is, then please feel free to browse for ideas to try with your child. You do not need to use any of these free resources. By just doing the lessons as outlined each week, the programme can still be successful. Word Family Lists A PDF file with the words for each phonic family taught in Level 2 listed with the new sound highlighted in red. Suitable for mid-week use and revision. If printing in colour is a problem, then print in black ad white and ask the child to mark the new sound letters with a red marked pen. Phonic WorkbooksFollowing on from Level 1, these workbooks give plenty of exercises in:
These phonic workbooks can be found on the individual lesson pages. Reading Intervention Decodable Reading BooksIf your child has come to Reading Made Simple, can decode to tooo great a degree to have to go right back to Level 1, but is guessing too much, then these books can help to refocus the pupil on all of the sounds in a words, rather than just a few.
The books assume the that the child knows the basic sounds taught in Level 1, and gradually expands vocabulary and ability to sound out more complex words, as the child works through level 2 to consolidate his/her skills. Find out more here. |
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