Alphabet Tales - Particulars

  • 111 full-color pages
  • Captivating tales explain why each letter is shaped and sounds as it does
  • Each letter is stylized to look like something familiar to the child for ease of learning and recall.
  • Stories will permanently link sound to letter shape
  • Story format makes learning fun
  • Each time a new sound is introduces in the EFM Teaching Manual, a story from Tales is used

Easy For Me Teaching Manual - Particulars

  • 321 pages
  • 77 Easy-to-follow lessons
  • Over 180 pages of reproducibles for center activities, skills practice, etc.
  • Appendix A contains 22 activities to teach sight words
  • Appendix B contains a classroom word wall in bold green font
  • Appendix C contains the pages for final assessing of students
  • CD containing the reproducible pages for ease of printing
  • Many visual helps provided to help children remember difficult concepts
  • Small group format, suggested centers, most activities provided

List A, Numbers & Colors Teaching Cards- Particulars

  • 59 Dolch and other sight words, plus 6 additional stylized nouns, and 23 number and color words. 
  • Unstylized word on the reverse of the card
  • Word used in an easy sentence on reverse of the card
  • A body motion is provided on the reverse of the card to aid in recall
  • Teaching cards are 110 lb. Index, full color on the front, black ink on the reverse
  • Teaching Cards are 5.5" wide, and 4.25" tall (a quarter sheet)
  • Laminate the cards and they will last for years even with children handling them daily 
  • Pocket Chart-sized cards are recommended for use in daily independent centers
  • Pocket Chart-sized cards are 4.25" wide, and 2.75" tall - perfect for pocket charts (these are included in the Complete Teaching Kit.)

Classroom Display Alphabet Cards - Particulars

  • One per letter of the alphabet
  • 8.5" x 11"
  • For permanent classroom display - in ABC order 
  • Stylized front directly matches the ABC Teaching Cards, and of course the Tales images
  • Laminate for many years of use

  Writing the Visual, Kinesthetic, Auditory Alphabet - Particulars

  • Teacher resource that accompanies the Display Alphabet
  • Provides hints on letter formation in order to avoid backwards letters, or up-side-down letters
  • Follow-up activities directly corelate to the Teaching Manual & ABC Teaching Cards
  • Pre-writing activities included

  Activities to Teach Sight Words - Particulars

  • This is the same set of activities we have offered with sight word purchases - but now it is included in the Teaching Manual, making lesson planning a cinch!
  • Activities are short and fun, and make learning sight words a snap!
  • Four types of activities: initial learning, review, sentence-building, reading/writing connection

  • Assumes the child comes with no prior knowledge
  • Starts with one tiny element - the sound of A - with each subsequent element seamlessly tied to the last
  • Everything is taught so that multiple pathways to the brain are utilized for learning and recall
  • Symbols are stylized to make meaning by their very shape and design
  • Each new concept is taught with a visual and story hook to promote recall
  • Children will be reading very early, providing relevence to the work they are doing
  • Strong tie between reading and writing - everything a child reads, he also writes
  • Constructivist approach - the children begin making sentences of their own from the beginning
  • Perfect blend between in-depth phonics instruction and sight word recognition starting with the first lesson
  • Structural analysis of words - a sound spelling found in one word is related to many other words
  • Daily auditory activities promote fluency with the hearing and manipulation of sounds
  • Activities are provided that purposefully tie stylized words to regular print
  • Step-by-step format leaves nothing to guesswork either for child or teacher
  • Self-pacing program allows the teacher to decide when her students are ready to move on to the next lesson
  • All non-essential activities are eliminated, resulting in less confusion for the children
  • Most importantly, the curriculum approaches teaching of reading from the stance of closing gaps in understanding for children, and preventing the areas in which children traditionally struggle.
  • Teach in a way that includes the helps children need who would otherwise fall through the cracks.

    • Our second Easy For Me Teaching Manual will include:

    *     all the sound spellings
    * language including parts of speech, etc.
    * sight words lists B-E
    * vocabulary building
    * related writing prompts
    * books to reinforce lesson skills
    * daily review
    * centers

     Who is Volume 2 for?
    Easy For Me, Volume 2     is recommended for teaching young children who have finished Volume 1, but is also a powerful tool for reading remediation through high school.

      Easy-For-Me Decodable Books - Particulars

    • Same size as Teaching Cards
    • Series of 22 titles provide children with reading material to reinforce skills learned as early as lesson 20!
    • Each book is eight pages, illustrated in black and white drawings
    • Inside covers outline skills needed prior to reading that book
    • Word count provided
    • No words are contained in the books that have not been taught
    • Books come in single packs (one title of each book) or six packs for use in the Teacher's Center
    • Books provide reading practice for all sight words learned in the EFM sequence of lessons

    EFM Reading Curriculum:

    PRODUCT CATEGORIES

         You may take advantage of this curriculum as early as Pre-school. Read the Alphabet Tales like you would any other story book, letting the child just enjoy the stories and gain familiarity with the letter shapes. Sight Words may be displayed and talked about as the child shows interest.

         Kindergarten is a wonderful time to start the lessons. Care must be taken to not rush or pressure the child. It will not be a surprise (if you truly are letting the children set the pace) that you will find yourself starting lesson 20 by Thanksgiving. This is not a problem! The contents of section one (lessons 1-30) are vital in that they set the foundation for the child's ability to do well in reading. They will only be working with eight sounds to that point, but will be learning so much about the use of sounds to make words. By the time they reach lesson 20, they will have learned a handful of sight words in addition to their eight sounds, and yet they will be able to start reading the books! By the end of section one, children will have successfully read seven titles!

          If you use this curriculum in 1st grade, plan to go through the lessons as they are laid out, however, the pace will likely pick up. Still, it is critical to not move to the pace of the speediest of your children. If you are teaching small group, take your advanced students as far as they can go in terms of the sound spellings they can learn. But always keep in mind that all your kids can learn...the focus must be on all children succeeding. Once you are finished with Section 1, the pace will automatically begin to speed up. By Section 3, you will feel like you are rolling downhill on wheels.

          For any age child who is struggling, this curriculum is valuable. Start at the beginning and use all the visuals and motions and hints and helps provided. Focus on patterns in words (ex: all the words you can find that contain the spelling pattern you are working on) and prepare to see some success!
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