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Lizzy is designed as a resource for all those who help children with difficulties in learning to read and to spell. The knowledge and skills are developed slowly, systematically and thoroughly. The clinician can draw on the levels needed by each individual child as required.
Many of the spelling rules are unique to Lizzy and the manner in which the work is implemented employs a simple, but effective, approach.
The work is designed to use as few sight words as possible, especially in the early levels. A list of the sight words used, and at which level they are introduced, is provided with the contents of each level.
Each level contains:
Letter Cards |
Needed for the Warm up exercises. |
Instructions |
Provided for using the letter cards and doing the Warm-up. |
Notes |
Discussing the sounds and rules, including special “tips” to help with specific problems that children can experience. |
Warm-up |
Consisting of blending sounds together (for reading), pulling sounds apart (for spelling) and changing sounds to form new words (for improved phonemic awareness). |
Words and Sentences |
Divided into 5 sections containing 9-12 words and 2 sentences.
These may be used for either reading or spelling, or both.
When reading, reward accuracy, discourage guessing. |
Story |
The story has accompanying comprehension question/s. These should be used to help the student to learn the correct way of answering a question in a complete sentence.
When reading, reward accuracy, discourage guessing. |
Homework sheet (Level 1) |
Extra practice at processing the sounds for reading and spelling. |
Spelling sheet (Level 2-8) |
Divided into 5 sections containing words and sentences.
These are supplied to provide additional words using the strategies and rules. |
Words for games |
These can be cut up and used for any commercial game, or with the games that can be found in the Lizzie Games Book, or for games such as Fish, Memory, Snap, Bingo, Dominoes etc. |
Reference Words List |
A list of words for any additional use that may be required in developing the skills and knowledge appropriate to each level. |
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