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The Middle Class Story
Module 1 Lesson 3 of 4
There is a middle class who likes to keep pets.
He has a , a and a .
Where does he keep these pets? In his of course. (Actually try to imagine a big bucket or a barrel with a chicken, a turtle and a fish swimming around inside it always bumping into each other)
The boy has to feed the pets. They eat . Again, imagine the chicken, fish and turtle swimming around in the basin thing and the kid with the ghost sheet is standing over the basin dropping in leaves for the 3 animals to eat.
Also, he needs to make sure they don't get out so he keeps a big on top of the .
Tip
This exercise may feel a little silly, but I promise that if you read through this story a couple of times, close your eyes, and really try to imagine the 7 KEYWORDS in the story, you will almost certainly be able to remember them all together, which will save you a lot of time and frustration later. Your imaginative memory is far more powerful than your visual memory. The 5-10 minutes you spend on this lesson doing that can save you dozens of hours of problems later.
child
chicken
fish
turtle
leaf
plate
basin
Now spend a few minutes drilling the following cards. The sound will play, but that is not our focus right now. Just try to remember the key words for each letter. Look at the flashcard and try and remember which of the 7 letters it is. If you can't remember just by looking, then run through the story to help you.
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Another great way to get this to stick is to tell the story to someone else. You can also try writing out all the 7 letters from memory using the story to guide you.
The audio played is the sound of the consonant plus an unwritten vowel that sounds like "aaw." We'll talk about this more later.
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