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Easy-for-Me™ Teaching Manual
Easy-for-Me™ Teaching Manual
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The Easy-for-Me™ Teaching Manuals help Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), clinicians, and teachers teach a variety of reading, literacy, and vocabulary skills.
Both Teaching Manuals blend systematic phonics instruction and sight word acquisition with right-brained strategies like visuals, movement, story, humour, and hands-on activities. The lessons in each manual allow Speech-Language Pathologists, clinicians, teachers, and parents/caregivers to teach the lessons without specialized training.
Read more about each manual below!
Teaching Manual 1 is divided into 3 distinct sections:
Section 1
Lays a foundation for children to begin improving their learning skills. With a minimal set of tools, students comprehend the why and how of reading before exploring more detailed contexts. This approach helps effectively close learning gaps, focusing on foundational knowledge, connecting new element to previous concepts, and helps children make visual and body connections to their reading memory.
By Lesson 20, children master 8 sounds and 4 words, which means they are ready to read the first two books in Set A Children's Readers.
By Lesson 30, students will have learned 8 sounds and 23 sight words, which means they will be able to read a total of 7 books from Set A Children's Readers.
Section 2
Section 2 of Teaching Manual 1 builds on children's reading skills by introducing new sounds, blending them, exploring writing, crafting words, acquiring related sight words, and reading books. As children progress to Section 2, they already comprehend the essence of reading, making the addition of new tools seamless, and their learning picks up pace.
Section 3
Section 3 of marks the culmination of the reading journey. It covers the remaining sounds, incorporates the final 5 SnapWords® from List A, and culminates with the reading of the last 7 books from Easy-for-Me™ Children’s Readers Set A, completing the process of learning to read.
What's Included
The Easy-for-Me™ Teaching Manual 1 is designed to be used with the following materials, which are available in a kit, but can serve as a supplemental guide for other reading instruction:
- Alphabet Tales
- SnapWords® List A
- Easy-for-Me™ Children’s Readers Set A
Recommended but not necessary:
- Alphabet Teaching Cards
- SnapWords® Number, Colors, Days, Months, & Seasons
- How to Teach SnapWords®
Teaching Manual 1 includes 92 pages covering 77 lessons.
Teaching Manual 2 offers additional considerations:
Pacing
The Easy-for-Me™ Teaching Manual 2 provides a total of 180 lessons. While ideally, one lesson could be taught per day, it's important to be flexible and responsive to each child's unique learning pace. Some children may understand a lesson easily, while others might require additional time and practice. Observing each child's progress and understanding is important to tailoring the pace of the lessons.
What matters most is ensuring comprehension of each skill. During assessments, it's crucial to identify any areas of difficulty and take the time to reteach them. Skipping over misunderstood concepts can lead to accumulation of gaps in a child's knowledge over time. It is ideal to proceed at a slower pace to make sure each child fully understands the concepts before moving on.
Kinesthetic Connections
There are a variety of kinesthetic activities included in the lessons in Teaching Manual 2. These activities are not only beneficial for kinesthetic learners but also for tactile and visual learners.
By incorporating visual elements, storytelling, and physical movement into the lessons, children enjoy a dynamic learning experience and retain the material better.
Resources
There are several important resources to become familiar with when preparing to reach the lesson from Teaching Manual 2. These resources include:
- SnapWords® & Mini-Lessons: These resources offer an effective approach to teaching sight words, utilizing visual and kinesthetic techniques for easy recall. They cover phonics concepts and word families, fostering visualization, correct usage, and critical reading skills including comprehension, writing, spelling, phonemic awareness, word recognition, fluency, and critical thinking.
- Easy-for-Me™ Children’s Readers: These Children’s Readers stand out for their dual focus on sight words and phonics concepts, providing comprehensive reading practice. Each book features teacher guides in the front, ensuring children are well-prepared to read. Additionally, comprehension questions are included to reinforce understanding. With leveled books meticulously designed to address key concepts, these readers effectively close learning gaps as children progress in their reading journey.
- Sound Spelling Teaching Cards & The Illustrated Book of Sounds & Their Spelling Patterns: These resources simplify decoding irregular spellings, enhancing reading, spelling, and comprehension. Through interactive lessons, students master language in an engaging, visually stimulating way, making them valuable for teaching phonics, spelling, and vocabulary.
What's Included
The Easy-for-Me™ Teaching Manual 2 is designed to be used with the following materials, which are available in a kit, but can serve as a supplemental guide for other reading instruction:
- The Illustrated Book of Sounds & Their Spelling Patterns
- Sound Spelling Teaching Cards
- 4 SnapWords® lists
- Easy-for-Me™ Children's Readers Sets B & C
- Beyond Sight Words Activities
Teaching Manual 2 includes 88 pages covering 180 lessons.