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Verbal Master Level IIl is the seventh of Failure Free Reading’s eight instructional levels ranging from beginning first grade to SAT/ACT content. Verbal Master Level II is for students with a 10th-11th grade reading level. Verbal Master Level III is suitable for: all ages, beginning English Language Learners, at-risk, and special education populations: autism, learning disabilities, intellectually disabled, deaf/HH and dyslexics.

Verbal Master III is designed to:

• significantly enhance vocabulary, expressive fluency, comprehension and self confidence for the student
• teach mastery of critical 10th -11th grade academic English words
• teach complex text

When finished, your student/child will have completed

• 36 Units of Instruction

Verbal Master helps the Teacher/Parent by providing:

• access to the Verbal Master, which includes:
  • Scripted Teacher/Parent Manuals for Instruction
  • Independent Activities (pencil & paper printable activities)
  • Flash Cards
  • Complex Text Stories
  • Criterion Reference Tests
  • Parent Communication Packs
  • Writing Composition Activities

Detailed Descriptions of Failure Free Reading’s Six Verbal Master Level III Cluster Stories:

Verbal Master III - Cluster Story 1 - “An Excuse for War” This story is about a leader of a gang and the leader of a belligerent country who come up with a conspiracy to start a war. The leader of the gang thinks up a conspiracy that almost brings two countries to war.

Extremely age- appropriate, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘console his client’ and the phrase ‘anonymous to the law.’ Among the words introduced: appalling, apparatus, accomplice, boisterous, coincide, contradict and catastrophe.

Verbal Master III - Cluster Story 2 - “A Decade of Terror” This story is about a leader of a gang and the leader of a belligerent country who come up with a conspiracy to start a war. The leader of the gang thinks up a conspiracy that almost brings two countries to war.

Extremely age- appropriate, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘distort the truth’ and the phrase ‘console a friend.’ Among the words introduced: convulsion, capillary, dispensary, dilemma, exotic, eloquent and duped.

Verbal Master III - Cluster Story 3 - “The Power of an Evil Leader” This story is about a country trying to sop the behavior of an evil leader. The people stood firm that they wanted him overthrown from power.

Extremely age- appropriate, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘pay homage’ and the phrase ‘exasperated people.’ Among the words introduced: endow,

emerge, facility, formulate, gallows, glazed, homage and hypocrite.

Verbal Master III - Cluster Story 4 - “Denounced Dreams and Illustrious Projects” This story is about an article describing the events that led up to the building of the Panama Canal, the magnitude of building the Panama Canal and the large amount of negativity toward the man who pursued such a thing.

Extremely age- appropriate, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘pulverize the project’ and the phrase ‘propulsion of the project.’ Among the words introduced: incandescent, impertinent illustrious, infirmary, magnitude, ordinance, predominant and propulsion.

Verbal Master III - Cluster Story 5 - “Anger Destroyed Him” This story is about a teenage boy and his journey that left him crying in a jail cell. The boy had made a bad decision.

Extremely age- appropriate, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘the decision would not be repealed’ and the phrase ‘his plight was certain.’ Among the words porous,

plight, rogue, revert, repealed, recuperate, secrete and sieve.

Verbal Master III - Cluster Story 6 - “The Sinister Silhouette” This story is about a horror film that won best picture. The story begins by telling the opening scenes of the horror movie about a murder in a sorority house.

Extremely age- appropriate, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘showing great turmoil’ and the phrase ‘stupefied look.’ Among the words silhouette, secluded, superficial, synthetic, segregate, tributary, tabulate and vain.

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[ What You Get! ]

Verbal Master Level IV is the eighth of Failure Free Reading’s eight instructional levels ranging from beginning first grade to SAT/ACT content. Verbal Master Level IV is for students with a 12th grade reading level. Verbal Master Level IV is suitable for: all ages., beginning English Language Learners, at-risk, and special education populations: autism, learning disabilities, intellectually disabled, deaf/HH and dyslexics.

Verbal Master IV is designed to:

• significantly enhance vocabulary, expressive fluency, comprehension and self confidence for the student
• teach mastery of critical 12th grade academic English words
• teach complex text

When finished, your student/child will have completed

• 36 Units of Instruction

Verbal Master helps the Teacher/Parent by providing:

• access to the Verbal Master, which includes:
  • Scripted Teacher/Parent Manuals for Instruction
  • Independent Activities (pencil & paper printable activities)
  • Flash Cards
  • Complex Text Stories
  • Criterion Reference Tests
  • Parent Communication Packs
  • Writing Composition Activities

Detailed Descriptions of Failure Free Reading’s Six Verbal Master Level IV Cluster Stories:

Verbal Master IV - Cluster Story 1 - “Energy Change Innovation” This story is about a group of scientists presenting ideas about new ways to innovate energy change to an audience. At first, the host of the conference had a pious attitude toward the scientists, but eventually he allowed the scientists to speak to their audience.

Extremely age- appropriate perfect for SAT/ACT preparation, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘recalcitrant behavior’ and the phrase ‘pious attitude.’ Among the words introduced: lucid, superficial, obscure, scrutinized, acute, alleviate, profound, expedite, profuse and depravity.

Verbal Master IV - Cluster Story 2 - “A Student’s Recalcitrant Behavior” This story is about the response a student gives to a question. The student’s answer was both hedonistic and provincial. The school principal believes she has to censure the student’s words.

Extremely age- appropriate and perfect for SAT/ACT preparation, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘disparaging remark’ and the phrase ‘lack of discernment.’ Among the words introduced: ameliorate, disparaging, solicit, incoherent, articulate, flagrant and orthodox.

Verbal Master IV - Cluster Story 3 - “Citizens Spreading Truth” This story is about a group of citizens who become skeptical of the lies made by a nation’s leader and take to the streets to spread the truth. The citizens’ demonstration of truth in the streets rejuvenated the voice of the people.

Extremely age- appropriate and perfect for SAT/ACT preparation, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘proponents of justice’ and the phrase ‘dearth of facts.’ Among the words introduced: impartial, disdain, extol, pragmatic, novel, proponent and rigorous.

Verbal Master IV - Cluster Story 4 - “Citizens Spreading Truth” This story is about a trial involving gang members. The reader is introduced to a courtroom scene where the lawyer who was defending the accused gang members horrifies a reporter doing a story about the trial.

Extremely age- appropriate and perfect for SAT/ACT preparation, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘reprehensible behavior’ and the phrase ‘a harsh resolute contempt.’ Among the words introduced: compliant, reprehensible, fallacious, condescending, and audacious.

Verbal Master IV - Cluster Story 5 - “Their Brazen Action” This story is about the effects of a prank by a very angry man out for revenge. He wanted to humiliate a man in a restaurant who had bumped into him and then refused to apologize.

Extremely age- appropriate and perfect for SAT/ACT preparation, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘virulent behavior’ and the phrase ‘receive great acclaim’ Among the words introduced: anecdote, elaborate, acclaim, scanty and concise.

Verbal Master IV - Cluster Story 6 - “Scientists and the Ascetic” This story is about scientists and their discovery of a man over a hundred years old living in a harsh region. The scientists proceed to run tests and ask him questions. They find that his body was in great condition and he was open to their questions.

Extremely age- appropriate and perfect for SAT/ACT preparation, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘remained congenial’ and the phrase ‘more credulous’. Among the words introduced gravity, prosaic, redundant, exemplary and euphony.

This is an electronic copy of the printed version of this story and its instructional materials, available for you to download immediately.

WHAT YOU GET:

Life Skills Blue Level – Story I- “Getting an Apartment” is the first story from first level of Failure Free Reading’s four Life Skills Levels. This story talks about a person who moving out of his/her parent’s house and is getting in a new job in a new community in the city.

Key words taught in this story are: job, find, community, newspaper, want, move, going, to, near, buying, parent’s, landlord. Key phrases taught are: a new job in a new community, going to move, buying a newspaper, looking in the want ads.

When finished with Blue Level - Story 1 “Getting an Apartment”, your student/child will have completed:

• 10 pages, 48 unique words, 99 sentences, and 947 running words and a lexical density of 5.06

This is an electronic copy of the printed version of this story and its instructional materials, available for you to download immediately.

WHAT YOU GET:

Life Skills Blue Level – Story 2- “Rooms in the Apartment” is the second story from Blue Level of Failure Free Reading’s four Life Skills Levels. This story talks about a person who getting a new apartment in the city. This story describes the rooms in the apartment.

Key words taught in this story are: kitchen, sink, bedroom, apartment, cleaned, television, refrigerator, pillows, bathroom, sofa, dresser, shower, blankets, plenty, connected, telephone, remote, control, Key phrases taught are: oven and the refrigerator need to be cleaned, the bathroom has a tub and a sink, have to buy pillows and sheets and blankets

When finished with Blue Level - Story 2 “Rooms in the Apartment”, your student/child will have completed:

• 10 pages, 51 unique words, 100 sentences, and 883 running words and a lexical density of 5.77

This is an electronic copy of the printed version of this story and its instructional materials, available for you to download immediately.

WHAT YOU GET:

Life Skills Blue Level – Story 3- “The Breakfast Story” is the third story from Blue Level of Failure Free Reading’s four Life Skills Levels. This story talks about a person who going out to get breakfast. This story describes the many different items that are on the breakfast menu.

Key words taught in this story are: waitress, special, breakfast, restaurant, juice, order, morning, eggs, menu, fourth, includes, scrambled, knife, fork, coffee, cashier and the Key phrases: sitting at a table in the restaurant, going to have breakfast this morning, waitress sets my table, the waitress takes my order, decided to order.

When finished with Blue Level - Story 3 “The Breakfast Story”, your student/child will have completed:

• 10 pages, 103 unique words, 200 sentences, and 1842 running words and a lexical density of 5.59

This is an electronic copy of the printed version of this story and its instructional materials, available for you to download immediately.

WHAT YOU GET:

Life Skills Blue Level – Story 4 - “Time for Lunch” is the fourth story from Blue Level of Failure Free Reading’s four Life Skills Levels. This story talks about a person who going out to get lunch. This story describes the many different items that are on the lunch menu and what he/she sees in the restaurant.

Key words taught in this story are: neighborhood, medium, mayonnaise, ketchup, glad, lemon, pepper, sugar, hungry, ready, order, because, extra, lettuce, large, cooking, chef, small, chicken, mustard and the Key phrases: going to have lunch, fast food restaurant, cooking french fries, soft drink cups, hamburgers and hot dogs, there are many items.

When finished with Blue Level - Story 4 “Time for Lunch”, your student/child will have completed:

• 10 pages, 76 unique words, 135 sentences, and 1278 running words and a lexical density of 5.94