The Edmark Functional Word Series helps you successfully teach the vocabulary necessary for independent community living. Often thought of as the third level of the Edmark Reading Program, this program extends the same teaching techniques to encompass more functional, practical words necessary for everyday living. Using the proven Edmark Reading Program multisensory technique, students can learn to recognize 400 functional words seen in the grocery store, on menus, on the job, and on common street and building signs.
In each lesson, students learn a new sight word, practice sight recognition, reinforce that recognition, and associate the word with its meaning through illustrations. Each vocabulary word is presented in a variety of formats: uppercase, uppercase and lowercase, and all lowercase. Each new word is then presented with excellent illustrations to ensure word comprehension.
Short steps and multiple repetitions methods that have brought success to so many students are used throughout the program. Reproducible worksheets reinforce learning with activities such as writing, identifying, circling, matching, and using a word in context.
- Teaches sight-word reading of 400 sign, fast-food, grocery, and work-related words
- Reinforces word meanings with illustrations
- Employs the highly successful Edmark Reading Program sight-word approach
- Word meaning is reinforced with specially designed illustrations
- 1,200 reproducible worksheets to practice and review words
Fast Food/Restaurant Words Kit
Teach students to read 100 words that will help them order a meal from a fast food establishment or a restaurant menu. This series features food-related words such as pizza, cheese, chicken, biscuit, and bacon. Includes 100 Word Recognition Lessons, 300 reproducible worksheets, and a Teacher's Guide.
Grocery Words Kit
Provide your students with 100 words necessary to read and write grocery lists and find items in a grocery store. Grocery Words teaches words such as tuna, shampoo, flour, sausage, and laundry detergent. Includes 100 Word Recognition Lessons, 300 reproducible worksheets, and a Teacher's Guide.
Job/Work Words Kit
Teach students 100 words to help them get and keep a job. Job/Work Words teaches words such as File, Caution, Help Wanted, Hard Hat Area, days of the week, and month names. Includes 100 Word Recognition Lessons, 300 reproducible worksheets, and a Teacher's Guide.
Signs Around You Kit
Enable your students to read 100 informational and protection words. Signs Around You teaches words and phrases such as Telephone, Taxi, Do Not Enter, No Smoking, and Poison. It includes 100 Word Recognition Lessons, 300 reproducible worksheets, and a Teacher's Guide.
