These skills are found in every story and correlate with our list of 20 Foundational Speech and Language Skills for Early Learning Success in Level 1. After reviewing the number of nouns and verbs, notice that the next 10 columns indicate the skills covered in each unit. This is a total of nine units per typical school year. We suggest repeating a story for one month. (See the “Additional Reading List” found as the last activity in the speech and language section in every Level 1 unit.) Allow your Read It Once Again story to be the repeated book and theme. If you have higher functioning children in your classroom, you can always supplement higher level fiction and nonfiction reading materials to match their language levels. Focus on the needs of the children with the lowest vocabulary levels. Choose storybooks based on the language ability of the students in your classroom.For example, “Brown Bear” is the easiest with 14 nouns and 2 verbs, and “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” has the most vocabulary with 72 nouns and 70 verbs. Notice that our books are listed in order according to the number of nouns and verbs found in the storybook.
Read It Once Again recognizes that appropriate steps to learning require a scope and sequence that can be tailored to meet the individual needs of each child, or a particular classroom.