Carron Practicals

About The Programmes

The library provides an extensive series of reading sessions which users can complete on their own without adult intervention no matter how severe their reading difficulty.

The child prepares one passage every day by progressively touching the spacebar to move the word focus and summons help in respect of unfamiliar words by touching any letter key. At some later point, he/she should then read from the printouts to an adult (never from the computer screen) with the expectation of making few if any reading errors, routinely every day.

After two weeks of successfully reading a passage to an adult every day, a second component is added. After completing the reading preparation and placing the printout in his/her reading folder, the child additionally completes an exercise from the Word Recognition/Spelling programme. This involves writing six sentences in an exercise book. The programme will voice any unfamiliar words in a sentence and a group from which a missing word is to be selected. The child selects what he/she thinks is the missing word.

After completing at least twelve titles from the library, children who are at least 10 years of age should instead, complete a daily exercise from the Reading Comprehension Course. Children under ten years of age should continue with the library.

After completing at least twenty exercises from the Reading Comprehension Course, the child's daily work programme should consist only of completing one exercise from the Boosting General Literacy Skills course. This involves completing a dictation exercise which the child is later required to read to an adult from his/her own exercise book.

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