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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. Comments are closed.
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