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Skill Builders (Extending
Literacy 3-6)

Visual literacy: How do we decode diagrams, tables and cartoons? This lesson visits the essentials of visual
communication. (873 words) (Flesch 5.3)

Key Reading Strategies
A set of lessons for ‘higher order’ or ‘advanced’ comprehension, featuring explicit teaching of concepts,
with multiple text passages, comprehension quizzes to gauge understanding and follow up analysis.

1 How to Connect Ideas (1036 words) (Flesch 4.5)
2 How to Sequence Events (1020 words) (Flesch 4.3)
3 How to Find the Main Idea (1264 words) (Flesch 5.0)
4 How to Identify Cause and Effect (1118 words)
(Flesch 6.0)
5 How to Interpret Ideas (1120 words) (Flesch 3.6)
6 How to Separate Fact from Opinion (1130 words)
(Flesch 5.0)
7 How to Make Predictions (1066 words) (Flesch 5.2)
8 How to Recognize the Author’s Point of View
(1112 words) (Flesch 6.0)

Spelling

1 Why is English so hard to spell? (740 words)
2 Short and sweet (short vowels) (146 words)
3 The magic ‘e’ (280 words)
4 Magic endings (‘er’ or ‘ing’) (282 words)
5 Double trouble (ball, bill, etc) (296 words)
6 Double headers (eg accident or innocent) (260 words)
7 At the double (‘l’ before an ending) (128 words)
8 The problem of c and g (280 words)
9 Predictable plurals (218 words)
10 Weird plurals (222 words)
11 Time travel – tense endings (eg play – played) (550 words)
12 What goes before – prefixes (318 words)
13 What goes after – suffixes (430 words)
14 The problem of ‘y’ endings (‘ice’ and ‘icy’) (290 words)
15 The twins able and ible (225 words)
16 The famous case of ‘i’ before ‘e’ (170 words)
17 Disappearing letters (eg ‘glamour’ and ‘glamorous’) (250 words)
18 Problem consonants ph and gh (304 words)
19 Problem consonants – wh and th (320 words)
20 Problem consonants ch and tch (200 words)
21 Awkward endings – tion and sial, tial and cial (340 words)
22 Problem vowels – ee, ea, ai and ay (476 words)
23 Tricky clusters – au, aw, or, oa, our and oor (340 words)
24 Tricky clusters – air, are and ear (280 words)
25 Tricky clusters – ou, ow, ue and ew (340 words)
26 Silent initial letters – kn, gn, wr and wh (266 words)
27 Silent letters – b, d, g, h, l, p, u and w (340 words)
28 Homophones (964 words)
29 Really odd spellings (eg ‘cough’) (486 words)
30 The fearful fifty – 50 problem words to master (334 words)

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