Jewels Educational Services for Up-and-coming Scholars
Beginning Reading
This introductory lesson takes a long time to load and is neither terribly exciting nor avsolutely essential (so you may wish to skip it).
How the alphabet got its order
Click on the glittering ABC to activate the lesson.
Recognize and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz
Click on the sparkling letters in each video to activate the next part of the lesson.
Each baby animal has a lower case letter. Click on its partner (upper-case) letter to move the baby animal to its proper home in The Alphabet Zoo.
Make the Short /a/ Sound
Make the Short /e/ sound
Make the Short /i/ sound
Make the Short /o/ sound
Make the Short /u/ sound
Click on the flower with the missing letter shown in red.
Click on the matching uppercase letter.
Click on the kangaroo to match uppercase and lowercase letters
The instructions in this concentration-like activity are not decodable. Students may need assistance learning to play this game matching uppercase and lowercase letters.
Help the bears get into alphabetical order so that they can take a ride.
Phonemic Awareness
Learners are taught to hear a sound, and then select the correct phonetic element (letters). Make sure you see all three activities, hearing & seeing the sound & letters together, clicking on the letters representing the sounds, and picking out the letters (phonetic element) from other letters.
Lesson 15 from ClickN Read Phonics
Lesson 78 from ClickN Read Phonics
Match the initial consonant sounds. WARNING: This video confuses itself. The second half starts of indentify ending consonanat sounds, but immediately reverts back to initial consonant sounds neither warning nor explanation. (Distinguish orally stated one-syllable words and separate into beginning or ending sounds).
An on-line activity for preschoolers that helps them explore alphabets through sounds. As your child speaks out the name of the animal, make her click on the alphabet that goes with its sound.
Find the picture that rhymes to make a pair. Identify and produce rhyming words in response to an oral prompt. (This video takes a little while to load.)
Drag all the pictures of words that have the Long /a/ sound into the box.
GREAT ACTIVITY PAGE!
Provide your learner(s) with the opportunity to use knowledge of letters, sounds, and words while trying out the games and activities on this site.
Decoding and Word Recognition
Learners are taught to say the sounds that go with each phonetic element, and then are taught to say the sounds so that they blend into recognizable words. This is a critical strategy for sounding-out words. After saying the word out loud, be sure to click on the character that said the word like you did.
Students review the long vowel sounds of a, e, I, o, u.
Students review the letter y and its long e sound through song.
Isolate the sound of /aw/. Students learn the /aw/ sound and identify the sound in words.
Read the decodable story.
Concepts About Print (Kindergarten)
Distinguishing letters from words.
Video introduces the concept of reading from left to right.
Student will follow words from left to right and from top to bottom on the printed page.
Student will follow words from left to right and from top to bottom.
Student will follow words from left to right and from top to bottom on the printed page.
Recognizing that sentences in print are made up of separate words.
The following are suggestions for helping your learner understand that sentences in print are made up of separate words..
The following are suggestions for helping your learner understand that printed materials provide information.
Students will recognize and understand that when specific letters within a given word are changed, added, or removed, the sounds within that word are also changed, forming or creating a new word.
Student will identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of the e-book: When It Rains.
Students will locate the title, table of contents, name of author, and name of illustrator using the e-book
Learners begin to read sentences and perform basic comprehension tasks as early as Episode 5. Within about 10 hours of instruction, learners are independently reading stories like this and answering questions about characters they have come to know in the program.
Early in the second half of the program, learners begin to use their reading and comprehension skills to build meaningful sentences, and to express the meaning they see in pictures. Don't exit this activity too early: be sure to see both types of activities in this example.
Learners are introduced to some of the types of comprehension exercises found on many of the standard reading tests they will encounter in a typical school year. In this example, learners are introduced to how to think about this kind of question. In later exercises, they answer completely on their own. Feel free to make some errors.
After about 25 hours of instruction, learners are reading long passages and can successfully answer comprehension exercises like those found in this example. Comprehension questions in later episodes also include inference, prediction and even require perspective taking.
STORIES TO READ!
Click on the pictures of the ears to hear the dialogue.
Click on each word in the story to hear the words read aloud.
Click on each word in the story to hear the words read aloud.
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English/Language Arts:
Mathematics:
Science:
Included is Christianity's impact on modern Westen science and the case for Intelligent Design.
History/Social Studies:
Religious Studies:
Study Christianity and other world religions through Christian apologetics.
Christian Counseling:
This course is available to adults only.
Foreign Language:
Spanish is currently the only language we offer. However, if you wish to write curriculum for another . . .
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Christian Counseling:
Religious Studies
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