for Beginners

by Donna Bowler
successintesl, Vancouver

NEW 2017 Edition

 Housing for Beginners
Audience: Pre-Lit to L. 1.
Some activities for L. 2-3. (See next page.)

Features:
586 pages of Mix andMix and
Match Match
Housing Sections
units (See bottom).
This book replaces theallow you for
old Housing to Lit
adapt the Supplement
and Housing book for L. 1
binders, with an additional 273 pages, reorganized with separate grammar,
to the interests and level
field trip, phonics and trace exercises at the back to make navigating easier.
NEW Lit & L.1 assessmentof your
tests students.
for each section (and 2 sets for Part 2).
With 563 pages,
NEW Stand-alone unit on Recycling.
there
Plus big pictures, games, jazz issongs,
chants, plenty
storyfor
units,all.
dialog card games, and more.
PHOTOCOPIABLE by teachers at one address for non-commercial use.

SECTIONS
1. Intro: Types of housing, living room furniture, prepositions of location
2. Recycling
3. More Rooms, Household Activities: describing location and
household activities.
4. Housing Repairs: identifying problems, calling the landlord
5. A New Apartment: calling about a place for rent, sequence in renting a new home,
rental forms, writing cheques, letters of notice, housing law

PLUS these extra Supplements

Grammar Field Trips Phonics for Lit Trace Pages for Lit

Have you purchased one of our old Housing binders in the last year or so?
Then contact us about getting a rebate when you upgrade to our new version.

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 SAMPLE WEEK ONE LESSON PLAN FOR LITERACY
For Pre-Lit (or Ss needing work with stroke direction) use the Trace Pages (p. 547 on) as Ss study the associated vocabulary.
Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four
Mixer (61) Types of Housing Furniture Prepositions of Location
Big Pix (55-58) Big Picture Review (55-58) Pix Match with Words Actions Cut-outs
Question Chain Question Chain Concentration. Syllable Cards (89)
Mixer. Double Line Shuffle (21) Syllable Cards (89)
using Mixer question.
Furniture * Furniture Prepositions of Location Donnas Living Room (94)
*Low Lit: Work with only Pair Picture Set (63-64) Actions p. 86 My Living Room (96)
half the pictures on Day 1.. Match with Word Set Cut-outs
Pair Picture Set (63-64) Play Concentration.
New Words (65) Syllable Cards (89)
Week One Lesson Plans
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Student Handout (549) Pair Cards (words with P) (550) for Lit and L. 1
Pair Cards Day 2 (550) Okay! (551)
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Do You Have A ?* (81) Do You Have A ? help you

Do You both
Have A? experienced
Preposition Pair Cards
Big Pix & Question Chain (69-80) Big Pix & Question Chain (69-80)
teachers and those (97-98)
Pair Drill using Pic. Cards (63-4)
p. 81 Pair Drill using Pic. Cards (63-64)
Pre-Lit: Trace House (565) Prepositions of Location new (88)
Jazz Chant to this level. Crossword (101)
or: Teach with Actions: Put your hands on your
Med-High Lit: Concentration head, behind, beside, under the table
Review pix (63-64) Cut-Outs & Rooms (p. 84-85)
Match with word set (67-68) Draw a Line (p. 82) Write: Table (83) Jazz Chant (88)
Play Concentration (See p. 17). Review Jazz Stomp

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 Teachers Guide Audio Tracks
Available as a free MP3 download from our website: www.successintesl.ca
The student audio tracks for each part are available as a free MP3
downloads from our website. Download it on your I-phone and send it to your
students so they can review at home. (Note: the listening assessment tests
are only on the teachers MP3 file.)

1. Jazz Chant: Time for TV (87-88)

2. Donnas Living Room (95)
3. Part 1: Literacy Listening Test (107)
4. Part 1: L. 1 Listening Test (110)
5. How Long to Compost? (137)
6. Song: Youve Got the Whole World (138-140)
7. A Very Old Shirt; Be a Recycling Star (142-3)
8. Part 2: Recycling Literacy Listening Test (170)
9. Part 2: Recycling Level 1 Listening Test (bottom of p. 173)
10. Part 2: Thank You Thrift Store Literacy Listening Test (224)
11. Part 2: Thank You Thrift Store Level 1 Listening Test (228)
12. Jazz Chant: Come and Eat (243)
The
13. Teachers
Jazz audio
Chant: Tables tracks
Everywhere contain
(245-246) all of the
14.Lit and
Jazz L.1 Eds
Chant: listening assessment
in Bed (266) tests for 6
15. Part 3: Literacy Listening Test (278)
sections, plus all the songs and jazz chants.
16. Part 3: Level 1 Listening Test (281)
NEW:
17. Song: There
Too Manyare now(342-344)
Problems separate audio files for
LitPart
18. and L.1 forListening
4: Literacy each section,
Test (355) downloadabe for
19. Part 4: Level 1 Listening Test (358)
free from our website, so Ss can share them
20. Song: A Good Place (396-398)
21.on their
Part I-Phones.
5: Literacy ListeningNaturally,
Test (466) the Listening
Tests
22. Part are
5: Level only onTest
1 Listening the teacher
(469) tracks.
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 Part One: HOUSING INTRO
Types of Housing, Furniture , Prepositions of Location

(p.55-62) Types of Housing (Big Pix: p. 55-60; Lit Mixer: p.61; L. 1 Mixer: p. 62)
1. Intro: Hold up the pictures to elicit and choral the new words: i.e., you say and then
students repeat. Clap out the syllables for 'apartment'(one clap per syllable). For Lit,
dont bother with townhouse or duplex.
2. Do a Question Chain

How to do a Question Chain

1. Ask several students: Where do you live? Elicit: I live in a/an _____.
Choral the question and answer as necessary, holding up a finger for each word.
Point to each finger in turn as you choral.

I live in an apartment .
2. After the next student answers, say: Ask X . and point to someone on the other
side of the room. Note: always have students ask someone on the other side of the
room. This will help them keep their voices loud enough to be heard by everyone.
3. Have students ask their partner.

3. Elicit and fill in the housing names at the top of the page.
4. Model the mixer activity and bottom gambits by interviewing a volunteer.
Page-by-page teaching hints and
Follow-up: Trace house (p. 565) (Low Lit)
For Ss who have problems with stroke direction.
follow-up suggestions, including
(p.63-68) Furniture
how to adapt activities to
1. Picture Set (p. 63-64) (Lit & L. 1) Copy double-sided with backing.

different levels.
a) Give out one cut-up set per pair. Say the word and have Ss hold up the correct
picture. Choral the word.
b) Do again in a different order.
2. In the Living Room: Elicit and write the words on p. 65 (for Lit) and on p. 66 (for L. 1).
Page 65 Answer Key: 1. door, 2. window, 3. sofa, 4. cat, 5. chair, 6. easy chair,
7. fireplace, 8. coffee table, 9. end table, 10. picture, 11. carpet, 12. table lamp, 13. floor
lamp, 14. TV, 15. heater.
Note: For Lit, use p. 66 as a follow-up, day 2 writing activity or assign for homework.

3. Play a Game of Concentration (Pic Set: p. 63-64; Word Set: p. 67-68)

Do the same day (with L. 1) or the next day (for Lit) after introducing the new words.
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 Ask Your Class mates
A. Where do you live?
B. I live in ______________________

____________ _____________

_____________ _____________

name kind of home

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Mixers, dialogs, dialog card games,

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substitution drills and more

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students quickly gain fluency as

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they work through the wealth of

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speaking activities.
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A?
Pardon me ?

How do you spell it ?

What kind of home do most people live in here?

How about in your country?
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 Draw a Line Name____________________

carpet
cat
chair
coffee table
door
A range of activities for
pre-liteasy
to lowchair
2. This one
is recommended
end table for pre-
lit/low lit.
fireplace
floor lamp
heater
picture
sofa
table lamp
TV
window

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 Furniture Cut-out Master
Print on overhead transparencies and then cut out.
Remember to change the setting on your copier first!
You will need one set per student.

To make this stellar activity for Levels pre-

lit to low 3, copy this page on overhead
transparency film (one per student).
Then cut up each set and put in a baggy.
Students follow and give directions to place
the furniture on the room outline provided.

NOTE: Keep the night table (beside the cat), bed, and dresser to add to the set on p. 230.

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 ea cof win
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sy fee dow
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ta chair pic
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a ble
Syllable cards help students master cher
longer words essential ture
to core content,
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such as apartment.
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so part
This activity is designed for Level 0 to L. 1.
NEW: See the next two pages for our new car
syllable
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sequence for L. 1-L3.
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fa ment heat
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er liv fire
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pet
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ing place
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room
SYLLABLE SET 1:
Living Room

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Date:______________________ Date:______________________

A Missing Syllables B Missing Syllables

1. cof-fee 1. ______ _______
2. ______ _______ 2. ta-ble
3. so-fa 3. ______ _______
4. ______ _______ 4. car-pet
5. a-part-ment 5. __ ______ _____
6. ____ ____ _____ 6. liv-ing room
This pair gap focuses students
7. win-dow on pronouncing and 7. spelling
______ _______
core multi-syllabic
8. ______ _______ 8. words.
pic-ture
Pair students and have them sit
9. heat-er 9. ______ _______
back to back or with a folder
10. ______between
_______them. Student A says
10. fire-place
the first word and Student B
11. be-side 11. ______ _______
writes. Then Student B reads
12. ______ _______ 12. so
number two, and be-tween
on.
13. a-cross from 13. __ ______ _____
14. ______ _______ 14. un-der
15. o-ver 15. ______ _______
16. ___ ___ _______ 16. ea-sy chair
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 Syllable Madness
Instructions: Cross off each syllable as you use it.

a car der fee ment side tween

a chair dow heat o so un
be cof ea ing part sy ver
be cross er room pet ta win
ble from fa liv pic ture

1. The opposite of under: ____ _______

2. A place with a sofa and a TV: _____ ______ _________

3. A place to sit for one person: _____ ______ _________

The
4. A place you rent in alast step
house in the Syllable
or building: ____ ______ _______

Word
5. When it is cold, yousequence is more difficult
need this: _________ _________
than it looks. Designed for high 1
6. You walk on this in the living room: _______ ________
to level 3.
7. The opposite of over: _____ _______

8. This is in front of the sofa: _____ ______ ____ _______

9. You put this on the wall: _______ _________

10. You need this to look outside: ______ _______

11. Two or three people can sit on this: ______ ______

12. X Where is X? _____ _______

13. X Where is X? ______ _______

14. X Where is X? ____ _______ _______

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 Name 5 What is the What do
kinds opposite of people
of homes. under? sit on?
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What homes What does How are a house
are Pair Discussion Cards are a great and a duplex
furniture
cheaper?way for high 1 Level
mean? 2 students different?
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to review content and practice -------------------------
What homes What isThese are How are a duplex
freer conversation.
are more in your and a townhouse
later used in the unit review
expensive? living room? different?
-------------------------
board game.
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What are What is the What furniture
3 kinds of opposite of is in the
apartments? in front of? living room?
------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------
What are What is the How many
two kinds opposite of rooms are
of chairs? behind? in your home?
------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------
What are What is a word What does
three kinds that means have a seat
of tables? above? mean?
------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------
What is the What is a word What do you
opposite of that means need when
over? beside? its cold?
------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------
Where do How do you Who do you
you live? relax? live with?
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Review Questions Name________________________
____/20
1. Where is the cat? (___/7)

beside between in in front of on over under

a) ______________ e) _______ f) ______

b) ____________
g) ____________
c) ______________

h) ___________

2. What kind of home is it? (___/3)

apartment house room

a)______________ b) _____________ c) _______________

3. Where do you live? ___________________________ (__/2)

4. Look at the living room. (___/8)

a) Where is the book? _______________________________.
b) NEW:
Where Each
is the section
carpet? of the book
has its own assessment
______________________ tests for
c) Lit andisL.the
Where 1: floor
a total of 17 tests!
lamp?
Here is the literacy reading and
______________________
d) writing
Where isassessment
the picture? test for the
first section.
______________________

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 Name_______________________
___/15
Level 1 Listening Test
1. His first name is a) Ted b) Ed c) Red
2. His last name is a) Mair b)The
MyerL.
1 Listening
c) Meer
3. His address is a) 1822 Main St.Assessment
b) 822 Main St.
4. He lives in Test for
a) a house b) an apartment the
c) a duplex
same section.
5. Her first name is a) Donna b) Dana c) Dora
6. Her last name is a) Caine b) Kaine c) Cane
7. Her address is a) 201 E. 6 St. b) 201 W. 6 St.
8. She lives in a) a house b) an apartment c) a duplex

9. A B C D

10. A B C D
11. A B C

12. A B

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 plastic
milk books
container old shoes
----------------------- ------------------------ ------------------------
clothes
cardboard computers
In theetc.
new recycling unit,
milk
containerpictures help lower levels
discuss which items
------------------------ ------------------------ ------------------------
can be recycled
paper
tin meat
in your community. Students
can
first work in groups to sort which
items can be recycled, and then
------------------------ ------------------------ ------------------------
further sort them into things
that can be recycled at home (i.e.
paper
light curbside by the city), at the bag
bulb
store (i.e., milk containers at a
newspaper
------------------------ ------------------------
supermarket, batteries at ------------------------
some
businesses, or household items plastic
at
glass bag
a thrift store), or must be put in
bottle
the garbage.
dishes
As a
------------------------ follow-up, there is a chart------------------------
------------------------ on
food
which to record the info. waste
plastic
battery container
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Can or Cant? Date______________________________

A. How About You?

?
1. I _________ speak Chinese.
?
2. I _________ drive.
3. I _________ speak a little English.

B. Recycling
1. You __________ recycle newspaper at home.

2. You __________ recycle clothing at home.

3. You __________ recycle paper at the store.

4. You __________ recycle clothing at the store.

Grammar exercises
5. You __________ recycle broken glass.
review the content
6. You __________ recycle
and lexis. Plus some plastic at home.
there
7. You is a separate recycle
__________ grammar all plastic.
supplement at the
8. You __________ recycle food.
back of the book.
9. You __________ recycle meat.

10. You __________ recycle old eye glasses.

11. You __________ recycle old medicine.

12. You __________ recycle batteries at home.

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 Be a Recycling Star
1. Where can you give clothes? __________________________
2. Do you have to clean the clothes first? __________________
3. Can you give old clothes? _____________________________
4. How about clothes with holes?
_________________________
5. Where happens to recycled clothing? Where does it go?
a) ______________________________________________
b) ______________________________________________
c) ______________________________________________
6. What percent (%) of clothes are recycled? _________
What percent (%) of clothes are not recycled? ________
7. How can you be a recycling star?
a) ______________________________________________
Part of a sequence on
b) ______________________________________________
textile recycling.
c) ______________________________________________
Students answer the
New Words: questions orally in
1. factory pairs or triads, and
2. stuffing: the inside filling
then forthe
skim sofas, toys, etc.
reading
3. insulation: something
to we
find
putthe answer.
in the roof
or walls to keep a house warm in the winter.
4. star
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 Recycling Discussion Questions
1. What things can you recycle on garbage day?

2. Can you recycle all plastic?

3. What things can you give to a thrift store?

4. How do thrift stores help?

These questions serve
5. What is the name of a thrift store near you?
as a unit review
6. What things are very
forbad for our
L. 1-2 andwater?
a unit
(What should you not put in the garbage?)
intro for L. 3.
7. What things can you not recycle?

8. What things never compost?

9. What are the three Rs?

10. What things can you reduce?

11. How can you reduce plastic?

12. Where can you recycle paper?

13. What things take a very long time to compost?

14. Do you recycle? Why/why not?

15. What do people recycle in your country?

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 Game boards with accompanying
question and chance cards are a
great way for students from
high L. 1 3 to review content.

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First Name
___________________________

When copied double-

Last Name
sided and cut
___________________________
horizontally, you have
School
individual literacy
___________________________
readers that students
willName
Teachers love. This book has
the copy master for 3:
___________________________

Thank You, Thrift Store,

Too Many Problems,
by Donna Bowler
and
A New Apartment.
16 New Words
1. fam i ly
2. child
one child
two children

3. a part ment

4. cheap
But it has
5. prob lems ma ny problems.
 Too Many Problems
1. This is
the Clark 1. _______ is this?
fam i ly.

2. _____ _______
2. They have
children do they
one child.
have?

3. They live 3. _____ do they

in an live in?
apartment.

4. Their
4. ______ is their
apartment This is the level one version of
apartment ?
is cheap. the same story (page one of two).
5. But it has
5. ______ does
many
it have?
problems.

6. _________
6. The sink
the problem
is leaking.
with the sink?

7. _________
7. The ceiling
the problem
is leaking.
with the ceiling?
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 Song: 9 The fridge is hot.

Too Many Problems 10 The heater is not.

Vocals & Guitar by Antonia Robertson
11 One of three
Clothes aren t great
clean
songs. Each song
10 12 from the
1 We live in sequence comes
washing ma chine with
2 a partment ten. song strips for Lit/Low 1
3 We want to move. as Chorus
well as a cloze version
4 We dont know when. for levels 1-2.

Chorus 13 Bugs in the kitchen.

Too many problems.
14 Mice in the wall.
We dont want to stay.
15 We dont like it
We are going to
move away. 16 here at all.

5 The sink is leaking. Chorus

6 The ceiling too.

7 The manager
doesnt know
8 what to do.

Chorus

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 2 BR 1 BR 2 BR 1 BR
townhouse apartment townhouse basement
$2700 $1,100 $3,500 apartment
1 bath + heat 2 baths $1,200
1 bath
One of 3 dialog card games
in the book.
A great way to
build oral fluency!
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4 BR 1 BR room room
house apartment $750 $600
$5,400 $1230 Shared Heat
2 baths heat bath. & hydro.
& hydro.

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3 BR 2 BR 1 BR 4 BR
townhouse house basement house
$3000 $1650 apartment $4,800
3 baths plus heat $1300 3 baths
1 bath

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Giving Notice
Mary and her family moved into their new place on March 31st.
When did they tell the old manager they wanted to move?
a) March 1st? b) March 31st? c) February 28th?
You have to give one month's notice at the end of the month. If
you don't, you may have to pay an extra month's rent.

Questions
February 26th, 2017
1. When did they write
Dear Manager,
the letter?
We will move out on March 31st ______________________
from apartment number 311, 2. Who is the letter to?
2587 Main Street. ______________________
Sincerely, 3. What is their apt. #?
Lots of content information to
Mary Jones (Mary Jones) ______________________
help newcomers
4. Who signedadapt
the letter?
James Jones (James Jones)
successfully to customs
______________________
in their new country.
__________________
Write a letter This is the L. 1-2 handout.
__________________
of notice. There is a 3 page literacy version
_________________________________
Use your that covers the same information
_________________________________

information _________________________________
at an easier level.
_________________________________
and today's date.
_________________
___________________________
___________________________

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 Field Trip INDEX
Field Trip Teachers Guide (523-526)
523-524 General Guidelines for all Field Trips
524 Recycling Walkabout
525 Field Trip to a Municipal Recycling Centre
Thrift Stores
526 Choosing a Furniture Store to Visit
Reading Flyers
Furniture and Hardware Store Task Sheets
Lots of field trip
Reading Store Hours (527-529) (Lit-Low 1)
527 Store Hours (Student Handout) suggestions to suit
528 Store Hours (Pair Cards)
every level.
529 Write Hours (Lit)

Thrift Store Task Sheets (530-535)

530-534 Task Sheets for Lit to L.1
535 Task Sheet for L. 2-3

Reading Sales Flyers (536-538)

537-538* Task Sheets for Lit to L.1
536 Task Sheet for L. 2-3
* Use the same handout for Lit-L. 1 both for the flyer activity and for
the field trip, but with the flyers, have Ss write the page number as well.

Field Trip Task Sheets (537-544)

537-538* Furniture Store Task Sheets for Lit to L.1
539-540 Furniture Store Task Sheet for L. 2-3
541-542 Hardware Store Task Sheets for Lit to L.1
543-544 Hardware Store Task Sheet for L. 2-3

Plus:
545 Sample Field Trip Form for a Trip to the Mall (L. 1-3)
546 Interview Your Partner

See Getting Around for help with Directions and Transit.

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Date______________________ Name ___________________
Furniture Store Name _________________________________
Hours _____________________________________________

Item Brand Name/Size Price .

1. dining room
table & chairs
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The easy field trip

2. easy chair task sheet for a trip
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to a big box furniture store
or department store
3. TV
for high Lit to Low 1.
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See the L. 2-3 version

4. stove
on the next page.
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5. end table
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night
table
6.
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table
lamp
7.

8. Find something you want to buy. What is it? How much is it?
__________________________________________________

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Furniture Store Name____________________
Hours _____________________________________________

Item Brand Name Regular Price Sales Price

1. coffee table
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2. child's bed
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3. set of 3 tables
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4. bookcase
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5. ottoman (foot rest)

This is the Level 2-3 Task Sheet.
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6. area rug
There
7. Find something you would like toare
buy. two
What to a page
is it? andis it?
How much fairly
__________________________________________________________
short so you can combine it with
the task sheet for a big box
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hardware store or
Furniture Store Name____________________ mall.
Hours _____________________________________________
Item Brand Name Regular Price Sales Price
1. king size bed
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2. coffee table
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3. fridge
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4. easy chair
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5. TV
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6. picture

7. Find something you would like to buy. What is it? How much is it?
__________________________________________________________

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Words with P and p Date___________________________

_________________________________________

lam___ car ___et fire___lace

__ ic ture en ___en cil cu___

a ___art ment ___lease sto___

Fill in the blanks: a part ment lamp pen cil stop

1. Do you have a _________________?

2. _____________. Don t go.

Day one handout for a four to five
3. He lives in an day phonics sequence for Pre-
______________________.
Lit/Lit. There are a total of 5
4. The ___________ is on For
in the binder. the Level
ta ble.One, we
recommend using our
More Words with p.
Success in Teaching Pronuncation
1. ha__ __y 5. __lant 9. __ark
to Levels 1 & 2.

2. u__ stairs 6. __rob lem

3. __ut 7. hel __ 10.__ark ing

4. chea__ 8. __eo __le
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Trace Name_________________________________

hous e
ro om
a part me nt
Whe re do
There are 3 trace
pages per section to
help pre-lit students
with stroke direction.

yo u live ?
Pard on me?
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