| Students are presented five new
Smart-Words each morning at school, allowing them to both visually
imprint the word in his/her mind, and hear the word and its definition as it
is spoken. Each week's words will have a specific theme (for example:
Science, Sports, Medical/Health, Chemistry, Business, Geography, Gaming,
etc.). Each day, five new words related to the theme of the week will
be announced. Each student will receive their own copy (special memory
imprint sheet) of the five Smart-Words announced that day.
A "Community Teacher" pronounces each
Smart-Word over the public address system. Students are then
guided to follow the Smart-Word presentation with their finger to
facilitate the imprinting process for each word. (Helps to
simultaneously imprint visually and auditorilly while capturing and holding
the students' full and continuous attention.) This is essential for
the student to maximally imprint and visually record the sequence of the
letters of the Smart-Word.
He/she reminds the students to focus on
what the Smart-Words "look like" to "see" how the word is spelled.
He/she then spells each word aloud while the child, with their finger,
follows the letters of each word as each letter is pronounced.
Students are next instructed to recite each word
and pronounce them by syllables, along with the Community Teacher. This is
the first use of syllabic pronunciation instead of dictionary sound signs.
By design, the daily Smart-Word
imprint sheet has no other distractions, and is uniquely constructed to help
students imprint each word in all ways they will encounter words in the
future, i.e., horizontal and vertical, capitalized and not capitalized.
Every imprint step is scripted, choreographed, and
uniquely designed to simultaneously trigger a student's visual and
auditory skills.
On the back of each daily Smart-Word
imprint list, the Smart-Words and their definitions are repeated.
The student is next instructed to create a sentence using each Smart-Word
(further imprint meaning, spelling and word usage).
Passing in their constructed sentence and
retrieving another allows each student to discover how other students use
the Smart-Words.
This unique configuration of words helps
students more easily and accurately visually imprint the Smart-Words
and be able to recognize them later when reading.
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