| EXPLODE THE CODE A Supplementary Program for Beginning Readers Nancy M. Hall, Rena Price Grade K - 4 (Though intended to supplement your reading program, I know many kids who learned to read using only this curriculum.) Explode The Code helps children learn to read by teaching them to use the sounds of letters. In a carefully sequenced program, a variety of exercises provides experience recognizing and combining sounds in order to read words, phrases, sentences, and stories, as well as to build vocabulary. Exercises contain practicing reading, writing, matching, spelling, and copying; simple directions and consistent formats so students can work independently; amusing illustrations, drawn by children; and cumulative review. Tasks in the lessons of Books 1-6 include matching words to sharpen visual discrimination; matching words and sentences with appropriate pictures to strengthen reading comprehension; selecting, then copying, words from picture clues; sequencing letter sounds and reinforcing them kinesthetically by writing the whole word; reading for sentence comprehension; and spelling from memory for cumulative vocabulary. The more advanced tasks in Books 7 and 8 include reading a story and then answering comprehension questions, making words by joining syllables, and building and strengthening vocabulary through crossword puzzles. |
 Primers Explode the Code
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| GET READY
FOR THE CODE
Book A, Get Ready for The Code, teaches consonants b, f, m, k, r, and t. Get Ready for The Code, Get Set for The Code, and Go for The Code, which all introduce the consonant letters, comprise a three-book series of primers for the Explode The Code series. The exercises are designed to develop visual, auditory, and kinesthetic perception of the letters. Activities include tasks such as visual tracking, matching, tracing, copying, and identifying the letters and their sounds. Special emphasis is given to discriminating between similar objects and letters, to developing the motor control necessary to write legibly, and to developing the listening skills children need to follow directions carefully. By the time children finish the series they will have learned all of the lowercase consonant letters as well as their sounds and written forms, and will be ready for Book 1 of the Explode The Code series. #REAEC20 $7.95 Sample Page see NEW teacher's guide below |
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| GET SET FOR THE CODE,
BOOK B Book B, Get Set for The Code, teaches consonants p, s, n, j, h, and d. Get Ready for The Code, Get Set for The Code, and Go for The Code, which all introduce the consonant letters, comprise a three-book series of primers for the Explode The Code series. The exercises are designed to develop visual, auditory, and kinesthetic perception of the letters. Activities include tasks such as visual tracking, matching, tracing, copying, and identifying the letters and their sounds. Special emphasis is given to discriminating between similar objects and letters, to developing the motor control necessary to write legibly, and to developing the listening skills children need to follow directions carefully. By the time children finish the series they will have learned all of the lowercase consonant letters as well as their sounds and written forms, and will be ready for Book 1 of the Explode The Code series. #REAEC21 $7.95 see NEW teacher's guide below |
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| GO FOR THE
CODE, BOOK C Book C, Go for The Code, teaches consonants c, l, g, w, y, v, z, and q. The 1998 edition includes x. Get Ready for The Code, Get Set for The Code, and Go for The Code, which all introduce the consonant letters, comprise a three-book series of primers for the Explode The Code series. The exercises are designed to develop visual, auditory, and kinesthetic perception of the letters. Activities include tasks such as visual tracking, matching, tracing, copying, and identifying the letters and their sounds. Special emphasis is given to discriminating between similar objects and letters, to developing the motor control necessary to write legibly, and to developing the listening skills children need to follow directions carefully. By the time children finish the series they will have learned all of the lowercase consonant letters as well as their sounds and written forms, and will be ready for Book 1 of the Explode The Code series. #REAEC22 $7.95 Sample Page
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| TEACHER'S
GUIDE for Books A, B, & C #REAEC20TG $8.95
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| EXPLODE THE CODE BK 1
(consonants/short vowels) Book 1 begins with a consonant pretest. It then teaches short a with finalconsonants (particularly t, n, m, and d) and the other short vowels. Review lessons are provided throughout the book, which concludes with a four-page posttest. Knowledge of all of the single consonants is a prerequisite to the Explode The Code series. Get Ready for The Code, Get Set for The Code, and Go for The Code, which all introduce the consonant letters, comprise a three-book series of primers for the Explode The Code series. The exercises in Explode The Code, Book 1 include extensive practice in matching, tracing, copying, reading, spelling, and writing sounds and words. Amusing illustrations, based on drawings by children, highlight the exercises. #REAEC01 $7.95 Sample Page
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| EXPLODE THE CODE BK 1 1/2
Book 1 1/2 provides further practice in short vowel sounds and the final consonants learned in Book 1. There are review lessons throughout the book, which concludes with a four-page post test. #REAEC01B $7.95 Sample Page
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| EXPLODE THE CODE BK 2 Book 2 teaches the initial consonant blends bl, cl, fl, gl, sk, sl, pl, cr, dr, gr, br, fr, pr, tr, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, tw, and the final consonant blends -mp, -sk, -st, -ft, -lt, -nt, -lf, -lp, -nd, -nk. There are also two review lessons and a four-page posttest. #REAEC02 $7.95 Sample Page
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| EXPLODE THE CODE BK 2 1/2
(consonant blends extra practice) #REAEC02B $7.95
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| TEACHER'S
GUIDE FOR BOOKS 1-2 #REAEC01TG $7.95
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| EXPLODE THE CODE BK 3 (long
vowels, diagraphs, diphthongs, y ending) Book 3 teaches one-syllable words ending in a long vowel, including -y; silent-e words; the digraphs sh, th, wh, ch, -ng, -ck; trigraph -tch; digraphs with silent e; and vowel digraphs ee, ea, ai, ay, oa, ow. There are also two review lessons and a four-page post test. #REAEC03 $7.95 Sample Page
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| EXPLODE THE CODE BK 3 1/2
(long vowels, diagraphs, diphthongs, y ending) #REAEC03B $7.95s
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| EXPLODE THE CODE BK 4
(compounds,
suffixes) Book 4 teaches compound words; the common endings -ful, -ing, -ed, -est, -ness; syllable division between double and different consonants, with open and closed syllables, with syllables ending in -y and -leand with three-syllable words. This book also teaches the vowel digraph syllables ai, ay, ea, ee, oa, ow. #REAEC04 $7.95 Sample Page
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| EXPLODE THE CODE BK 41/2 (compounds,
suffixes) #REAEC04B $7.95
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| TEACHER'S
GUIDE BOOKS 3-4 #REAEC03TG $7.95
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| EXPLODE THE CODE BK 5 (word
families, three-letter blends) Book 5 teaches words with -all, -alk, -old, -olt, -oll, -ild, -ind; qu words; words with three-letter blends (thr, shr, scr, str, spr, spl); -ey words; and the three sounds of -ed (/ed/, /d/, /t/). There are also two review lessons and a four-page posttest. #REAEC05 $7.95 Sample Page
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| EXPLODE THE CODE BK 5 1/2(word
families, three-letter blends) #REAEC05B $7.95
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| EXPLODE THE CODE BK 6
(vowels
plus r, diphthongs) Book 6 teaches vowel plus r words (ar, or, er, ir, ur); wor and war words; the second sound of ea; the vowel digraphs ie, ea, igh; and the diphthongs oo, oi, oy, ou, ow, au, aw, ew, ui, ue. There are also three review lessons and a posttest. #REAEC06 $7.95 Sample Page
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| EXPLODE THE CODE BK 6 1/2 (vowels
plus r, diphthongs) #REAEC06B $7.95
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| TEACHER'S
GUIDE BOOKS 5-6 #REAEC05TG $7.95
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| EXPLODE THE CODE BK 7 (soft
c,g; eigh, ei, ph) Book 7 teaches c and g followed by e, i, or y; silent consonant letters (words with -dge, -mb, kn, wr, silent t, silent h); the two sounds of ear (/air/ and /er/); ei and eigh words; and digraph ph. There are also three review lessons and a posttest. #REAEC07 $7.95s Sample Page
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| EXPLODE THE CODE BK 8
(suffixes and endings) Book 8 teaches suffixes and irregular endings. It covers -ness, -less, -ous, -or, -ist, -ity, -ture, -ment, -able, -ible, -sion, -tion, -ance, -ence, -tive, -sive, -ify, -ize, -ti-, and -ci-. There are also three review lessons and a posttes #REAEC08 $7.95s Sample Page
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| TEACHER'S KEYS
Book 7-8 #REAEC07TG $7.95s
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