ABSTRACT
William’s teacher decided to choose twelve frequently used words from the information and stories that he had dictated to her. As an alternative, she could have taken the words from the first pages of an early book in a reading scheme. It was important to select words with different grammatical functions, i.e. nouns, verbs, prepositions, so that a variety of sentences could be made up from them (see Table 5.1). The target objective was stated in the following way:
William will read these 12 word cards fluently, unaided and in any order:
I home pool am Mike to going at the swimming is big
Table 5.1:
I am swimming Mike is swimming I am going swimming Mike is going swimming I am at the pool I am at the big pool Mike is at the pool I am going home Mike is going home the pool is big Mike is big big Mike is going to the big pool I am big Continue to make up sentences until all words have been mastered
