Ancient Achievements provides continued word practice using core activities of marking letter patterns, copywork, and dictation while gradually increasing the reading level. Students will read about fascinating topics from long ago, such as cave paintings, Viking ships, and the travels of Marco Polo. At the same time, students are introduced to interesting facts about word roots and more advanced word patterns. It is designed as a bridge to the next stage of spelling.
Ancient Achievements is designed as a bridge from the Skill Development Stage to the Word Extension stage of spelling. Students will read about ancient places and events with a gradually-increasing reading level. Students will continue to improve their basic spelling skills while learning interesting new facts about words in preparation for more advanced study of spelling patterns.
This level:
Read the passage below to your student, asking them to follow along. The man’s first name is pronounced Fy-lo (rhymes with high-low).
Philo was very interested in electronics. When he was a teenager, he found a stash of science magazines. He studied them carefully. He learned that scientists were trying to make a new machine. It would use electricity to send and show pictures. He thought about it. He talked with his science teachers. One day he drew a picture on the chalkboard. It showed how a television could work. Philo Farnsworth’s plan was the first idea that worked.
Ask your student to read the passage aloud by themselves.
Dictate the following list of words, one at a time, to your student, asking them to write the words on a piece of paper.
interested, science, magazines, studied, electricity, pictures, thought, teachers, television, idea
If you answer “Yes” to these three questions, your student is ready to begin Ancient Achievements.
If you answer “No” to any of the questions above, try the readiness guidelines for the previous level, American Spirit.
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