Read Naturally SE Teacher's Guide

Practice Word List StepThe phonics levels include word lists that students practice reading after they havepassed the story. Reading these words in the context of a story makes reading thewords by themselves more meaningful and less frustrating for students. After studentscan read the word list in the time allowed, you pass them on the word list.The students practice reading the word list in two directions. Students first practicereading down columns of words and then practice reading across rows of words.Students must read the word list in both directions in the time allowed (45 secondsor one minute).The word lists for levels .8, 1.3, 1.8, and 2.3 include most of the words with the featuredsounds from the story plus other words with the featured sounds. The word lists forlevels 2.6 and 2.7 include all of the words with the featured sounds used in the story.To practice reading the word lists:1 From the pass results of a phonics level, click the Word List button.2 The students click Start when they are ready to start practicing the word list.If they need to stop and start over, they can click Stop and then click Start whenthey are ready to start again.3 The students first read quietly down the columns of words and click the FinishedReading Down button when they finish.As they read, students can click words they don't know to hear them spoken.SE Teacher's Guide 62 Copyright © 2004–2009 Read Naturally, Inc.Differences in the Steps for the Phonics SeriesRead Naturally Software Edition