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Home Placement and Overview Ancient Achievements

Ancient Achievements

Ancient Achievements is designed as a bridge from the Skill Development Stage to the Word Extension stage of spelling. Students will read about ancient places and events with a gradually-increasing reading level. Students will continue to improve their basic spelling skills while learning interesting new facts about words in preparation for more advanced study of spelling patterns.

This level:

  • Features nonfiction stories about long ago, covering themes such as cave paintings, Viking ships, and Marco Polo
  • Involves the three core activities for Spelling You See:
    • chunking – provides hands-on experience with English’s many irregular letter patterns
    • copywork – requires the brain to pay attention to details in print
    • dictation – gives the student the opportunity to recall the proper letter patterns from memory
  • Includes a new Spotlight activity designed to introduce students to interesting facts about words, call attention to how endings are added to words, and show how learning word relationships can help with spelling
  • Gradually increases in reading level, providing opportunities for vocabulary development and allowing students to learn how to spell words in an interesting context
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Ancient Achievements provides continued word practice using core activities of marking letter patterns, copywork, and dictation while gradually increasing the reading level. Students will read about fascinating topics from long ago, such as cave paintings, Viking ships, and the travels of Marco Polo. At the same time, students are introduced to interesting facts about word roots and more advanced word patterns. It is designed as a bridge to the next stage of spelling.

Placement Guidelines

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Scope and Sequence

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Read the passage below to your student, asking them to follow along. The man’s first name is pronounced Fy-lo (rhymes with high-low).

Philo was very interested in electronics. When he was a teenager, he found a stash of science magazines. He studied them carefully. He learned that scientists were trying to make a new machine. It would use electricity to send and show pictures. He thought about it. He talked with his science teachers. One day he drew a picture on the chalkboard. It showed how a television could work. Philo Farnsworth’s plan was the first idea that worked.


Ask
your student to read the passage aloud by themselves.

Dictate the following list of words, one at a time, to your student, asking them to write the words on a piece of paper.

interested, science, magazines, studied, electricity, pictures, thought, teachers, television, idea

If you answer “Yes” to these three questions, your student is ready to begin Ancient Achievements.

  • Can my student write for 10 minutes at a time?
  • Was my student able to read the paragraph aloud without sounding words out or pausing? Note that the paragraph is written at the minimum reading level for Ancient Achievements.
  • Was my student able to spell correctly eight of the ten listed words?

If you answer “No” to any of the questions above, try the readiness guidelines for the previous level, American Spirit.

  • Lessons 1 and 2: Vowel Chunks
  • Lessons 3 and 4: Consonant Chunks
  • Lesson 5 and 6: Vowel and Consonant Chunks
  • Lesson 7 and 8: Bossy r Chunks
  • Lesson 9 and 10:Vowel, Consonant, and Bossy r Chunks
  • Lesson 11: Tricky y Guy
  • Lesson 12: Endings
  • Lesson 13:Silent Letters
  • Lesson 14-18: All Letter Patterns
  • Lesson 19-24: Various Combinations
  • Lesson 25-36: All Letter Patterns

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Sample Lesson

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Parts A and B

  • Read the Passage Together
  • Mark Letter Patterns(Chunking)
  • Student Copies Passage for 10 Minutes and Chunks Their Work

Part C

  • Read the Passage Together
  • Mark Letter Patterns (Chunking)
  • Discuss the information found in Spotlight, which is designed to build curiosity about words and prepares students for future level of spelling

Part D and E

  • Read the Passage Together
  • Mark Letter Patterns (Chunking)
  • 10 minute dictation

Sample Lesson

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A Typical Week

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Ancient Achievements
Universal Set

This set includes everything you need:

  • Instructor’s Handbook – Includes an introduction to the philosophy to Spelling You See, the “Getting Started” guide with an overview of the 36 lessons, and helpful information and resources
  • Student Pack – Includes two student workbooks and erasable colored pencils

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Ancient Achievements
Instructor’s Handbook

  • Includes an introduction to the philosophy to Spelling You See, the “Getting Started” guide with an overview of the 36 lessons, and helpful information and resources.

Purchase the Instructor Handbook

Ancient Achievements
Student Pack

  • Includes two student workbooks (workbooks are broken into part one and part 2) and erasable colored pencils.*Student Packs are great for an additional student, teaching multiple students on the same level, students in a class or co-op setting.  Instruction materials not included and are necessary for use of this program.

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