Extra-Concept Books

These extra-concept books help provide additional instruction for reading, for skills such as onset sounds, and for practice with rhyming.

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Beginning at week 4, each week of books will have an extra-concept book to help practice an additional skill. These will end in a .3 and can be considered optional if you have other resources that cover these skills and don't have time for these books.

These books will be titled either "Let's Practice!", "Let's Read!", or "Let's Rhyme!"

• "Let's Practice!" books will focus on skills such as onset sounds and word segmenting.

• "Let's Read!" books will sometimes focus on an additional reading exercise. For example, book 6.3 focuses more on how the pronunciation of the letter "a" when it comes before an "n". Students are instructed to see how their mouth changes shapes and the sound produced is slightly different than the short /a/ they have been practicing. "Let's Read" may also just provide additional engaging text for students to practice with.

• "Let's Rhyme!" books will progress from introducing students to rhyme, to having them identify rhymes, to even completing rhymes.