Wild Tales gives students opportunities to study words in the context of factual passages about animals and allows students to mark various letter patterns, copy passages, and produce their own compositions or drawings. In this level, students also practice writing passages from dictation with assistance. This level is designed for a student who knows letter sounds and can spell many common words correctly.
Wild Tales continues your student’s journey through the Skill Development stage. Each lesson features a nonfiction passage about a different animal. These passages will allow students to build their vocabulary and learn how to spell in an interesting context.
This level:
Read the passage below to your student, asking them to follow along.
Some sheep are wild. Bighorn sheep live on mountains and high hills. Male sheep are called rams. They use the horns to fight other rams. Flocks of sheep eat grass in the meadows. They climb steep hills to find more food.
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.
sheep, eat, called, grass, horns, hills, they, find, fight, food
If you can answer “Yes” to these three questions, your student is ready to begin Wild Tales.
If you answer “No” to any of the questions above, try the readiness guidelines for the previous level, Jack and Jill.
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