** One Simple Teaching Tool **

• students work at their own pace; independently or in pairs
• self-checking picture provides comprehension component

• Builds association between words in the same phonics/spelling pattern

• These learning modalities make it successful:
  • Small Motor / Tactile:
    • manipulating the strip in the pocket engages the student to participate
    • challenges student and study buddy
  • Visual
    • the strip creates a visual link between the work and the picture, thereby strengthening comprehension
    • the strip creates a visual association between words in the same phonetic group
  • Auditory / Oral Repetition:
    • student hears himself say the word and spell the word
    • student hears others say the word and spell the word
• Encourages long term rentention / cumulative learning
  • connects word, picture and the spelling of the word
  • creates a pattern with other words in the same or similar phonetic group
  • creates the emotional response of accomplishment when the strip is
    completed correctly