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.