What is in the Beginning Readers Course?

The Beginning Readers Course consists of 12 Units. All BRC Units start with 30-50
new high-frequency and sight words.

After seeing and hearing new words students are given opportunity to repeat and
apply these words through several practice exercises.

 Words
o Students see, hear, and play with words.
 Sentences
o Students listen to and read sentences,
o Combine words into sentences,
o Find a missing word in a sentence,
o Make up their own sentences and hear them spoken.
 Interactive Stories
o Fun, animated stories.
o Students can click on sentences and hear them spoken.
o Interactive Q&A test at the end of a story.
 Reproducible, printable worksheets
o Interactive practice exercises are always followed by printable
worksheets. It is as much important to practice writing skills as well as
reading skills.
 End-of-Unit diagnostic tests
o End-of-Unit tests help teachers customize learning sessions according to
students needs.

 Progress-monitoring tools
o Scores are recorded and kept in Student Reports.

Units Overview

UNIT Units Content

Words with: a as in bag, i as in pig, o as in hot

1
Sight Words: a, am, are, for, I, is, of, on,the,to, was

Words with: e as in pet, u as in cup, th as in this

2
Sight Words: put, said, there

Words with: a as in ape, i as in kite, sh as in ship, ll as in will, ck as

3 in sock
Sight Words: he, my, me, go, you, give, wash, from, be, we, all
 Words with: ch as in chick, o as in bone, u as in mule, e as in Pete,
4 th as in thin, fl as in flip, sk as in skip, sl as in slide, gl as in glide
Sight Words: friend, no, some, with, one, fall, does, her, so

Words with: ie as in pie, oe as in toe, ee as in bee, all as in ball, tch

as in witch, gr as in grip, cr as in crab
5
Sight Words: again, both, by, color, do,inside,or,over, pulled,through,
turn, until, went, when, yell

Words with: oa as in goat, ai as in pail, ea as in seal, pl as in plane,

fr as in frog, tr as in tree, sp as in spot, th as in teeth, ng as in king,
6 wh as in when
Sight Words: as, children, day, enough, full, have, here, live, our,
out, they

Words with: oo as in moon, ow as in cow, ou as in mouse, nk as in

ink, le as in apple, ss as in mess, tt as in bottom, ff as in off, lt as in
7
melt
Sight Words: eight, lives, tired, two, were

Words with: ar as in car, cr as in crab, or as in born, sc as in scar, st

8 as in step
Sight Words: his, your,yours

Words with: ow as in snow, er as in hammer, aw as in saw, nd as in

9 end, pr as in prop, dd as in ladder
Sight Words: colors, door, yet, yard

Words with: ay as in day, y as in my, lp as in help, br as in Brad,

10
Sight Words: where, why

Words with: wa as in water, ur as in turn, alk as in walk, y as in

11 baby, y as in yellow, wh as in where, j as in jump
Sight Words: girls, says, their, today

Words with: oy as in boy, al as in palm, ir as in bird, c as in city, sm

12 as in small, sw as in sweet, mp as in jump
Sight Words: bald

Learning Sessions Overview

Units are conveniently subdivided into15-minutes learning sessions (LSs).
LS1 See and hear new words and phonic
structures.

Interactive Game: The Magic Words

Show
Click on a word and hear it spoken.
Worksheets: Recognize the new words in
a colorful word search exercise.

LS2 Practice reading and writing of the new words.

Interactive Game: Cat and the Words From the Hat

Listen to a word the cat says, and then click on the button where you see that word.
Worksheets: Practice writing the new words. Complete the words with the missing
letter, and then write the entire word.

LS3 Continue practicing the new words.

Interactive Game: Parrot the

Words. Three colorful parrots will say
one word each. Read the word on the bird
stand. Drag and drop onto the stand the
parrot that says the written word.
Worksheets: Practice writing the new
words.

LS4, LS5 Read and recognize the new words in sentences.

Interactive Game: The Word Dropping Cat

Listen to the sentence the Mouse says. The Cat will drop one word from the written
sentence. Click on the missing word.
Worksheets: Practice reading and writing. Complete the sentence with the missing
word.
LS6, LS7 Continue practicing the new words
in sentences.

Interactive Game: The Words

Scrambling Cat
Listen to the sentence the Mouse says.
The Cat will scramble the words. Drag the
words above the yellow line and arrange
them in the correct order.
Worksheets: Unscramble the sentences.

LS8 Practice writing sentences of your own.

Interactive Game: The Wild, Wild Sentences

Go wild with words! From the group of random words select and arrange words to
create a sentence of your own. Click on the cat to hear your sentence spoken.
Worksheets: Create sentences of your own from the set of available words.

LS9 Try to read the story on your own.

Practice the new words and review the old
ones from the previous units.

Click on the sentences to hear them

spoken to check whether you read them
correctly.

Keys to Success
There is a lot of flexibility in how you can use this course.

The 15-30 minute LSs are made to fit into young student's attention span and your
schedule.

The following are some very important recommendations that will assure the
successful use of The BRC:
 Do the units in order! Do not skip units. Each unit covers important phonic
structures, consonant blends or consonant digraphs. The words related to these
structures that appeared in previous units will reappear in later units.
 Do the learning sessions in order! LSs are designed to gradually lead young
reader from getting acquainted with new words in the first learning session
(LS1) to using and recognizing these words in sentences and stories in the
subsequent learning sessions.
 Continuity is important. You may work on one LS for several days or do two
LSs in one day. The only important thing is to work continuously and regularly,
be it every day or a couple of times a week.
 Be flexible. It is recommended that a student works on one LS 15-30
minutes a day. There is a lot of flexibility in how you can use that time. You can
do only the interactive program during one session, and then do the worksheets
the next day. Or you can do a little bit of both for 2-3 days until the LS is
finished.
 Do not skip worksheets! One LS consists of one interactive program and
several worksheets. It is very important that interactive programs are followed
by worksheets. It will help your young reader practice writing and will give
him/her opportunity to read again the same words he/she learned and heard in
the interactive program. This is a very valuable reinforcement, so please do not
skip it.
 Repeat if necessary. If you feel that the child is still having problems with
some of the words covered in one of the previous units, it is OK to go back and
review that entire unit or parts of it, before continuing with the current unit.
 Give awards! Encourage the child by awarding him/her with a colorful
certificate. The certificates are available on My Dositey Home page when
parent/instructor logs in.