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Verbal Master Level l is the fifth of Failure Free Reading’s eight instructional levels ranging from beginning first grade to SAT/ACT content. Verbal Master Level I is for students with a 6th-7th grade reading level. Verbal Master Level I is suitable for: all ages, beginning English Language Learners, RtI Tiers II & III intervention, at-risk, and special education populations: autism, learning disabilities, intellectually disabled, deaf/HH and dyslexics.
Verbal Master I is designed to:
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significantly enhance vocabulary, expressive fluency, comprehension and self confidence for the student
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teach mastery of critical 6th -7th grade academic English words
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teach complex text
When finished, your student/child will have completed
Verbal Master helps the Teacher/Parent by providing:
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access to the Verbal Master, which includes:
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Scripted Teacher/Parent Manuals for Instruction
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Independent Activities (pencil & paper printable activities)
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Flash Cards
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Complex Text Stories
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Criterion Reference Tests
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Parent Communication Packs
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Writing Composition Activities
Detailed Descriptions of Failure Free Reading’s Six Verbal Master Level I Cluster Stories:
Verbal Master I Cluster Story 1 - “Discussing Suspension.” This story is about an interview that is taking place between an assistant principal at a high school and a correspondent for a local TV news program. The correspondent asks the assistant principal why some kids get suspended from school and others do not.
Extremely age- appropriate, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘a state of confusion,’ ‘abandon good behavior’ and the phrase ‘cultivate such an argument.’ Among the words introduced: abandoned, adjustment, argument, assumes, assure attractive banquet, blunder, burden, coarse, combination and contribute.
Verbal Master I Cluster Story 2 - “The Storm Chasers” This story is about a TV program dealing with storm chasers. In this story, your child/student will learn that the TV program has to do with a group of people who went on a storm chasing expedition. The narrator says that the program is very exciting. The narrator also admits that the TV program made him afraid as it showed a tornado funnel forming and touching down to the ground. The funnel caused a lot of damage and it demolished anything in its path.
Extremely age- appropriate, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘it was beyond description’ _and the phrase ‘descended out of a drenched sky.’ Among the words introduced: expand, expedition, exhausted, element, enable, formation, funnel, fiction, flee, granite, gorge and gratitude.
Verbal Master I Cluster Story 3 - “Saving a Life” This story is about a car accident and a mechanic who saved a woman’s life after the accident. The horrific accident took place at a road junction of two major highways. The accident happened because the driver was unable to see well because of hindered his vision and how a mechanic saved the life of a woman who was trapped in her car and bleeding badly.
Extremely age- appropriate, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘his vision was hindered’ and the phrase ‘did not hesitate.’ Among the words introduced: injured, jagged, junction, label, lag latitude, literature, luxury, majority, major, and maintain.
Verbal Master I Cluster Story 4 - “Security Dogs Save the Day” This story is about a dangerous parcel that was left in a railway station and found by security dogs who saved the city from danger.
Extremely age- appropriate, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘more than a mere nuisance’ and the phrase ‘felt the necessity.’ Among the words introduced: nuisance, neglect, original, oxygen, painful, permanent, reasonable and respectful.
Verbal Master I Cluster Story 5 - “Looking at a Revolution” This story is about a revolution taking place in a tiny republic. In the first part of the story, there is a scene shown on a screen in a squadron room. The scene is a satellite scan of a tiny republic where a revolution had taken place. A scientific team had assumed that there had been a bad revolution, and the satellite scans let them know they were right.
Extremely age- appropriate, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘the results confirmed the situation’ and the phrase ‘not a minor little scuffle.’ Among the words introduced: republic, revolution, satellite, squadron, selection, schedule, sprout and species.
Verbal Master I Cluster Story 6 - “The Importance of Electricity” This story is about an electricity outage that caused air conditioners to stop working during the hottest days of the year. The first part of the story explains that the temperature was over one hundred degrees, and the people who were in the buildings were going through torture because they were so hot.
Extremely age- appropriate, this story will introduce your child/student to key phrases such as: ‘the torment the heat was causing’ and the phrase ‘there was no time for vanity.’ Among the words introduced: smear, successful, sermon, sincerely, thermostat, torment, varnish, utensils, wealthy and wondrous.
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