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Home Placement and Overview Wild Tales

Wild Tales

Wild Tales continues your student’s journey through the Skill Development stage. Each lesson features a nonfiction passage about a different animal. These passages will allow students to build their vocabulary and learn how to spell in an interesting context.
This level:

  • Features carefully researched nonfiction passages about animals. The content introduces non-phonetic and high-frequency words.
  • Involves Spelling You See’s core activities:
    • Shared Reading
    • Chunking
    • Copywork
    • Dictation
  • Gives students opportunities to show creativity and develop their interest in writing, listening, storytelling, and illustrating on “No Rule Day.”
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Wild Tales provides opportunities for students to study words in the context of factual passages about animals. Students mark various letter patterns, copy passages, and produce their own compositions or drawings. They also practice writing the passages from dictation with assistance. This level is for a student who knows letter sounds and can spell many common words correctly.

 

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.

Some sheep are wild. Bighorn sheep live on mountains and high hills. Male sheep are called rams. They use the horns to fight other rams. Flocks of sheep eat grass in the meadows. They climb steep hills to find more food.

 

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.

sheep, eat, called, grass, horns, hills, they, find, fight, food

If you can answer “Yes” to these three questions, your student is ready to begin Wild Tales.

  • Can my student write two or three sentences 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 Wild Tales.
  • 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, Jack and Jill.

  • Lessons 1-2: Vowel Chunks
  • Lessons 3-4: Consonant Chunks
  • Lesson 5: Bossy r Chunks
  • Lesson 6: Tricky y Guy
  • Lesson 7: Silent Letters
  • Lessons 8-9: Vowel Chunks
  • Lessons 10-18: Various Combinations
  • Lesson 19: Vowel Chunks
  • Lesson 20: Consonant Chunks
  • Lesson 21: Vowel and Consonant Chunks
  • Lesson 22: Bossy r Chunks
  • Lessons 23-30: Various Combinations
  • Lessons 31-36: All Letter Patterns

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Wild Tales

Sample Lesson

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Parts A-C

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

Part D

  • Read the Passage Together
  • Mark Letter Patterns (Chunking)
  • Complete No Rules Day activity which is designed for creative self-expression to get students excited for and comfortable with writing.

Part E

  • Read the Passage Together
  • Mark Letter Patterns (Chunk)
  • 10 Minute Dictation

What does a typical week look like?

Here’s an example of how you can fit Spelling You See into your homeschool schedule using Wild Tales.

Sample Lesson

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A Typical Week

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Wild Tales
Universal Set

This set includes everything you need:

  • Instructor’s Handbook – Includes an introduction to the philosophy of Spelling You See, the Getting Started guide, lesson-by-lesson instructions, and helpful information, tips, suggestions, and resources.
  • Student Pack – Includes two student workbooks and erasable colored pencils

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Wild Tales
Instructor’s Handbook

  • Includes an introduction to the philosophy of Spelling You See, the Getting Started guide, lesson-by-lesson instructions, and helpful information, tips, suggestions, and resources.

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Wild Tales
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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