LANGUAGE - teaching to read - LLATL Blue Book Set - Review

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The Blue Book programme is a simple, cost effective tool for beginning reading instruction. The easy-to-use format is both understandable for the parents, and enjoyable for the student. The phonics skills as well as higher order thinking skills are emphasised.

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You will see in this video that the artwork on the covers of the LLATL books are not the same as what you see on the image on the site. This is because LLATL have done an upgrade on the artwork as well as some minor changes to the content. This video is still relevant in what is being shown and told, hence us leaving it here for you to see. Please contact us if you would like to know more detail about the specific changes pertaining to the upgraded LLATL.

The Common Sense Reading Program, the Blue Book, for first grade skills, is the perfect reading program for for beginning readers. The updated third edition is even easier to use with clearer instructions and a colorized companion Student Booklet. Lessons include: phonics instruction using the “Successful Reading for Beginners” series. Your student begins reading stories right away!

This set consist of:
• Parent/Teacher Manual
• Student Activity Book
• 28 Readers
• Materials Packet
• The Blue Book programme is a simple, cost effective tool for beginning reading instruction. The easy-to-use format is both understandable for the parents, and enjoyable for the student. The phonics skills as well as higher order thinking skills are emphasised.

The program is divided into four parts – 36 lessons:
• Lessons require little or NO preparation! Read-aloud stories and “real books” provide a basis for language arts skills: phonics, reading, spelling, grammar, and higher order thinking skills, even handwriting included!
• A systematic phonics approach includes: short and long vowels, consonant blends, word families, and sight words.
• Handwriting instruction teaches upper and lower case letters, numbers, and punctuation! Illustrated practice sheets encourage your student to do his best.
• Games, word-wheels, flip books, and MORE hands-on projects and activities are effective for ALL types of learners.
• Assessments enable teachers to evaluate progress. Essential to the program, consumable Student Activity Books may be purchased separately.

The Readers
• Successful Reading for Beginners – Short Vowel Readers by Yuriko Nichols (12 readers)
• Successful Reading for Beginners – Bridge Readers by Debbie Strayer (6 readers)
• Successful Reading for Beginners – Long Vowel Readers by Yuriko Nichols (10 readers)

Children will receive satisfaction from reading a ‘whole’ book early in their reading experience rather than waiting for months. The reading instruction approach is unique in that the materials enable your student to read ‘real’ books. These books contain imaginative stories, sequentially organised to allow your student to use and review previously developed abilities.

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