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It is a simple story about Ben and his mischievous puppy. It is designed to motivate students to read and interpret information. Most words are one or two syllable words with regular spelling patterns. The reproducible workbook has two parts, the first - the story with clozes, the second - comprehension activities. The story is divided into 23 paragraphs, one paragraph per page. The top part of each page has the description of an event and the bottom part has the same text with missing words. As the student is searching for an answer in the top section
(missing words), he is reading the text again, recalling key events in a sequence, making simple inferences from the information related to the text and selecting the words needed to fill in the blanks. By reading the text the second time and searching for missing words and then writing them down, the student creates mental pictures of the words and learns the spelling and the meaning of the words. The second part of the reproducible workbook (pages 24 – 42) consist of worksheets that integrate grammar, word study, comprehension, inferences and writing.
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