Learning Without Tears Fall 2021 Catalog by Learning Without Tears

Product & Professional Development Fall 2021 Catalog

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Navigating a New Way to Student Success This fall is sure to be full of fresh and familiar experiences. As we emerge from the turbulence of the global pandemic, teachers and students are face-to-face again, heading back down the halls they’ve missed so much. But this year the EXCITEMENT AND ANTICIPATION of back to school comes with new, challenging waters all educators will have to navigate. The interrupted education experience of the past year has placed new hurdles for learning in front of students—particularly for the youngest. At Learning Without Tears, we believe that a STRONG FOUNDATION can withstand any disruption. Throughout the past year, educators and families have turned to us to help their students hone foundational skills like emergent writing, handwriting, and keyboarding. Teachers learned with us in virtual professional learning workshops, gaining the mastery they needed to stay ahead of the challenges on the horizon. And this fall, we are unveiling our new early literacy program, A–Z for Mat Man® and Me, helping students gain alphabet knowledge and beginning reading skills in a delightful new way. All our programs effectively support multiple learning environments. So, whether you are back to full-time in-person learning, hybrid, or virtual, our solutions will meet the needs of your students and teachers. It’s a bold new journey, but we’re right ALONGSIDE YOU helping you navigate your students to success.

Terry Nealon CEO, Learning Without Tears

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NEW! For 2021!

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The Learning Without Tears Story Our journey started at the kitchen table of a mom whose son was struggling with handwriting. Jan Olsen, an occupational therapist, developed a revolutionary new approach to handwriting that has helped millions of students. Since then, we’ve grown from one passionate entrepreneur to a team of hundreds. After more than 40 years, we remain a family-owned education company dedicated to our mission—

to help students build foundational skills with confidence, leading to lifelong success. As the company spread its wings,we saw opportunities to continue to develop foundational skills.

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NEW! 2022 editions available now!

AWARDS Learning Without Tears programs and products have won many awards over the years, recognizing the innovation at the heart of what we do, and the success of the students that learn with us.

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TEACHER APPRECIATIOn Learning Without Tears understands the needs of our earliest learners and the extraordinary educators dedicated to improving education. We are meeting the challenge by innovating new print and digital solutions to help teachers build essential foundational reading and writing skills.

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Teacher TipS!

I send home print and cursive alphabet sheets with the letter formation directions and language to parents. That way students are receiving consistent instructions across all settings. - Megan S.

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Literacy Handwriting

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LETTER BOOK STORIES

PRINT & DIGITAL ACTIVITES

TEACHER-GUIDED STRATEGIES

HOW FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS SUPPORT ALPHABET LEARNING ON A PATH TO READING

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Handwriting Literacy

Student Letter Books Teacher Read-Along Books A-Z for Mat Man and Me Teacher’s Guide Mat Man and the Great Alphabet Parade A-Z for Mat Man and Me Practice for Emerging & Developing Readers A-Z for Mat Man and Me Interactive Teaching Tool and Student App

Read a complete Student Letter Book and see teacher’s guide excerpts at: LWTears.com/AtoZ

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Literacy Handwriting

STUDENT LETTER BOOKS Inside the Student Letter Books

Engaging stories with diverse characters allow young readers to see themselves in text and explore new cultures and environs. CASEL social habits are woven throughout the series while the intentionally designed stories provide practice in phonemic awareness and word recognition.

Phonics Skills Covered • Consonant sounds, including hard c, /k/ for c; hard g, /g/ for g; and two sounds, /ks/ for x • Short vowel a • Short vowel i • Short vowel o • Short vowel u • Short vowel e • Final double consonants • Ending -ck • Endings -s, -es • Decode and encode VC and CVC words

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Handwriting Literacy

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Literacy Handwriting

TEACHER’S GUIDE The teacher’s guide features instruction on how to best use the program’s components for emerging readers and developing readers. Teachers are equipped with guided lessons on letter learning and meaning making.

LETTER LEARNING LESSONS

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Focus on understanding a target letter, its sound, and its form in the context of a story.

Provide instruction that helps student build reading and listening comprehension as well as socialemotional skills.

Areas of Focus: • Phonological and phonemic awareness • Concepts about print • ELL scaffolds • Differentiation

Areas of Focus: • Reading comprehension skills • Oral language • Social-emotional skills (SEL) • Assessments

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MAT MAN® AND THE GREAT ALPHABET PARADE This fun-filled read-aloud book is a starting point for the letter learning journey students will continue with the Student Letter Books. By using the same exemplar words for both the Student Letter Books and the read-aloud book, children will begin to associate sounds with letters, while they build oral language and word knowledge.

Introduce the Alphabet

Teach Alphabetical Order

The delightful alphabet parade helps children conceptualize the alphabet as a collection of letters that represent sounds and make words.

You can use the cover and the word list on the inside front cover to help explain the order of the alphabet.

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Preview Exemplar Words Connect the Components Use this book to launch into either the Student Letter Books or the practice books.

The exemplar words from each letter book are integrated throughout the parade, offering a glimpse of the other stories.

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Literacy Handwriting

DIGITAL COMPONENTS Digital tools help supplement your instruction with read-alouds, allowing students to make progress independently. Fun activities engage students as they make deeper connections between sounds and letters and build social-emotional skills.

A–Z FOR MAT MAN® AND ME STUDENT APP Students can use the app to read a letter book independently or access the readaloud feature to follow along with the words. Activities provide fun practice to reinforce literacy skills. • Read digital editions of the letter books independently, or have words read aloud • Complete teacher-assigned practice work for emerging and developing readers • Print practice book material, complete work, then upload to teachers • Get independent, skill-building practice with fun activities like Match It, Trash It

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A–Z FOR MAT MAN® AND ME INTERACTIVE TEACHING TOOL The teacher dashboard provides direct access to everything you need to plan your lessons, assign practice work to students, and maximize time spent in your literacy block. • Adjust the letter teaching order to suit your curriculum

• Use the read-aloud feature on a whiteboard and show highlighted words as they are read • Use interactive activities to find words or pictures focused on a target letter • Assign reading and letter-learning activities to students, accessible on the student app • Track student assignments and share reports with families

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No matter what path you take to teaching this fall... Product Tutorials Watch the experts use our products in free, on-demand videos for a complete overview of how to navigate our new digital tools.

How-To Videos Get quick tips on how to effectively use the new Interactive Digital Teaching Tool and Digital Student App. Onboarding Instructions Download documents that walk you through how to set up our digital products, no matter where you’re teaching. Professional Development From virtual workshops to customized, on-site training, our engaging learning sessions span Pre-K–5 specialties, including early learning, handwriting, keyboarding, and more. Your staff can earn valuable contact hours and get free materials by learning with us!

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HELPing You

BEGIN THE FALL WITH A SMART START

...Learning Without Tears’ resources can help guide the way! Digital Dashboard +Live Insights® is our dashboard for digital teaching, connecting all of our solutions in one space. You’ll get help administering our products, increasing teacher effectiveness, and improving student learning.

Quick Assessments For K–5 — Assess students in minutes with our free, online Screener of Handwriting Proficiency. Get data-driven instruction and remediation plans to evaluate your next steps on the path to handwriting excellence. For Pre-K — Get free, universal, easy-to-administer assessments to help identify what children know and can do.

Hands-On Learning Bundles Our time-tested manipulatives help engage young minds in learning foundational skills. Grab a prepacked bundle for each student so you’ll be ready to start on day one!

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Handwriting Without Tears Our award-winning handwriting program has been adapted to meet the demands of today’s changing classroom environment. This unique, integrated print and digital curriculum provides research-proven resources—in the classroom and online—allowing you to bridge the divide between school and home like never before. Transitional K–5 students spend nearly 60 percent of classroom time on handwriting-based activities. Our curricula give students endless possibilities. Our research supports the efficacy of our programs! Explore our effective, research-based reports to learn the methodology behind our award-winning curricula.

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Digital Student Apps

Interactive Digital Teaching Tool WHAT MAKES IT WORK? • Integrated print and digital approach to instruction • Scaffolded approach to letter learning • Multisensory strategies bring learning to life • Explicit, direct instruction and engaging practice • Child-friendly language, in English and Spanish

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The Teacher Experience Our Print and Digital Solution Has All You Need • Digital teacher’s guides • Digital letter and number formations • Engaging and purposeful animations, music, and videos • Digital student editions • Reporting to easily track student assignments

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A Lesson Planning Tool

featuring: • Dozens of pre-loaded lesson plans • Options to change the order of letter instruction to fit your core ELA curriculum • Ability to edit the pre-loaded lesson plans to meet your class needs

Support for Differentiated Instruction: • Assigning to a whole class or an individual student is easy! • Teachers, students, and parents can easily collaborate on assignments. • Rich content supports in-person or remote learning.

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Handwriting

The Student Experience Student Editions

Our award-winning family of student editions foster handwriting success in Transitional K–5 with a clean, simple, and intuitive design. • Left-hand friendly • Distraction-free pages in black and white • Child-friendly voice and instructions • Developmentally appropriate letter order • Promotes legible writing with double lines

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Handwriting | Product Handwriting Spotlight

Digital Student App Students can stay connected with their handwriting lessons no matter where they learn by using the student app. • Complete digital handwriting lessons online • Access Letter and Number Formations, Wood Pieces, and Wet-Dry-Try • Message teachers through the app • Experience engaging music, video, and animations

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Emergent Writing | Handwriting

Our emergent writing student editions help students learn literacy skills joyfully. • Child-friendly language makes letter and number formation easy • Unique gray crayon strokes disappears when children trace over it • Illustrations promote left-to-right directionality • Social-emotional activities for school readiness • Color, number, and shape lessons develop crayon and pencil grip and fine motor skills From coloring and drawing to pre-writing with capitals and lowercase, students receive a strong early literacy foundation, preparing them for the rigors of elementary school and the years ahead.

Readiness & Writing Pre-K Teacher’s Guide This guide to teaching emergent writing and general readiness skills addresses alphabet knowledge, letter and number recognition, capital and lowercase letter formation, counting, drawing, shapes, and colors.

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Our developmentally appropriate products support the unique needs of our youngest learners.

Transitional kindergarten serves as a bridge between preschool and kindergarten. It provides students with time to develop fundamental skills needed for success in school in a developmentally and ageappropriate setting.

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The transitional kindergarten activity book provides a bridge from Pre-K to kindergarten with a developmentally appropriate sequence.

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First grade students, or those working at that level, practice the correct use of lowercase letters in words and sentences. Includes cross-curricular lessons with practice pages for writing on different styles of lines.

Resources and strategies for helping children practice handwriting. GRADE: 1 TGMPB-22

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Patrick scored. T he crowd cheered!

Baseball helmets are very hard.

I think soccer is the best

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Writing Journal B

Building Writers B provides students with grade-appropriate practice with narrative, informational, and opinion/argument writing while building handwriting automaticity.

New grade-level journals provide one organized tool for strengthening handwriting and independent writing skills. Updated to include wide and regular double lines.

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A ASEALL STOR Tell the baseball story.

AAZN ANALS Write facts about each animal using the information below.

- has a long spiral tusk

- lives in icy Arctic water - nicknamed unicorn of the sea - hit baseball

- ran bases

- scored and won

A narwhal

It was Dave’s turn to bat.

narwhal

- migrates to lay eggs

- is a blue, red, or silver color

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LNE PRACTCE

Copy the sentence on double lines.

saw

t wo

cat s.

saw

t wo

goa t s.

Zack Copy the sentence on triple lines.

A va

Copy the sentence on a single line.

Josie

saw

two

dogs. My Printing Book

dive down

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B b

 Copy capital B.

Copy the words.

big

blue

b l e.

tabl e

bus

My Printing Book

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bike

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dou

bub

is for bicycle.

Copy lowercase

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around bump

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Start on the dot. Copy b.

swim up and over

bus

ub.

tu b scr

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Printing Power Teacher’s Guide

Second grade students, or those working at that level, master printing with advanced paragraphs, poems, and language arts activities. Features practice pages for advanced printing on a single line.

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Writing Journal C

Building Writers C provides students with practice of increasing complexity as they build writing skills in narrative, information, and opinion/argument writing.

New grade-level journals provide one organized tool for strengthening handwriting and independent writing skills during writing block.

GRADE: 2 BWC-22

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Cursive Kickoff gives second grade students the option of beginning cursive instruction earlier. After a quick review of print, lessons progress to teaching cursive letters in developmental groups based on formation.

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How neat is your classroom? Support your opinion with reasons.

bridge

New York

river

very neat - very easy to find things - very easy to clean up

WHALE & SALON COPARSON

- very organized

Complete the chart. What do both animals have in common? What is different?

- places for everything

- mammal

- fish

- warm-blooded

- cold-blooded

- breathes air with lungs

- breathes in water with gills

- has fins and tail

- swims in water Only whale:

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- hard to find things

- easy to clean up

- hard to clean up

- organized

- not organized

- places for most things

- too much stuff

- swims in water Only salmon:

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- easy to find things

I think my classroom is

Both whale and salmon:

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kick!

down bump K.

Start on the dot. Copy

Add

PARARAPH

trailer

ack .

Add

sack b

eight wheels

Check

Start on the dot. Copy

i ck .

Add

sick sleeper

landing gear

hitch

eight wheels

cab

engine

fuel

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two wheels

Check

a ke .

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ma ke

tractor

slide away

i ke .

bike

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Make the line as straight as a ruler.

bump

Some students are developmentally ready to start learning cursive in second grade.

down travel up Start on the dot. Copy

back down

y y yell day

Copy the words.

aim for corner travel away

turn

yell day

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Copy

Copy the words.

cap gap pat path

Copy the sentences.

p is

Pat had a P Papa, catch P

Be sure to stay on the pole when you climb back up.

cap. that. Check Sentence

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climb back up and over and around

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bump travel away

back down Start on the dot. Copy

Check

Copy the words.

pad tap patch chap

pad tap patch chap Check

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Cursive Handwriting

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Cursive Handwriting Teacher’s Guide

Third grade students, or those working at that level, easily transition from printing to cursive with cursive warm-ups. Includes activity pages featuring paragraphs, poems, composition, and cross-curricular lessons.

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Sacajawea helped

Gandhi was

Clark Expedition.

leader.

the Lewis and

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Writing Journal D

Building Writers D helps students learn how to add their unique voice to their writing. Featuring practice with narrative, information, and opinion/argument writing.

New grade-level journals provide one organized tool for strengthening handwriting and independent writing skills.

Download our free Building Writers Sample Pages for independent writing practice.

an inspirational

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Vertical Cursive

ACROSTC POES Use the information below about the accordion to complete the acrostic poem.

bellows

- commonly called squeezebox - produces sounds by squeezing together and pulling apart

Our simple vertical cursive

- has keys similar to a piano

eliminates unnecessary

- has straps to hold close to chest and arms keyboard

A C

bass system

- is popular in Brazil and in Mexico

flourishes and slanting. It’s very similar to print and allows

FEALE EXPLORERS Write about the female explorers using the supporting facts.

students to develop their own

C O

Amelia Earhart

personal style of cursive. The

- was the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

- disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean

days of elaborate, slanted

- received US Distinguished Flying Cross

cursive and curlicues are gone.

- was an author

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Cursive Success Teacher’s Guide

Fourth grade students, or those working at that level, develop cursive fluency with lessons featuring more advanced language arts and cross-curricular activities.

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When I visit D.C., I want to see the Washington Monument first.

We knew we had reached the U.S. when we saw the Statue of Liberty.

A large statue of Abraham Lincoln sits inside the Lincoln Memorial.

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- deadliest natural

SHOWN SEQUENCE

disaster

Sequence is the order of events in a story. Writers show the order of events by using transition words. Write a short story matching the illustrations below. Use transition words

- happens

when Earth

to show the order of events.

shifts and

earthquake

moves

- also called

cyclones or twisters

tornado

- formed by rotating,

spinning air during

a storm - mountain

connected to molten rock

below Earth’s surface

- erupts and volcano

explodes with

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Review & astery: Cursive to Cursive

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Cursive with new letters:

Wait for the teacher to play the Freeze Game.

dig

dug

pay

catch

caught

hit

taught

pull

put

yell

pulled

yelled

hid

update -

updated

P rint to

hit

hide

put

paid

teach

i j u y

Spelling to

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Translate print into cursive.

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fit, f-i-t

Wait for the teacher to spell the words. Write the words in cursive.

. u i y j

.

2. up

3. fit

. j e ep

.

5. eig ht

6. play ed

7. d el ig ht

8. actual ly

9. dif fi cu lt

10. d el ig ht fu l

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PRONOUNS - POSSESSIVE CASE

y, your, his, her our, your, their

His car is old.

Possessive pronouns show ownership. They take the place of possessive nouns. the car’s trunk its trunk

Meagan’s car her car

Patrick’s car his car

Mike and Greg’s mom their mom

Give these possessive subject pronouns something to own. Choose from the list below or make up your own.

shoes

bike

my its

party

friends

shirt

pizza

soda

money

his your

your our

present

her their

These possessive object pronouns also show ownership. Fill in the blanks. Choose pronouns from the list below.

mine

yours

his

hers

ours

theirs

This book is

, but that bus is , but that book is

This pizza is

, but the calzone is

This bus is

SUECT & POSSESSVE PRONOUNS

THE NUMBER STORY

Three Little Kittens

uni – unicycle, uniform, unit biour– bicycle, biceps, bilingual your their tri – tricycle, triple, triangle, triatholon  3 quad, tetra – quadriceps, quadruplets, tetrology V 4 Three little kittens, V 5 lost their quin, pentamittens, – quintuplets, quintet, pentagon, pentathlon And began to Vcry, Mother Dear,hexagon sadly fear, sex, hex – sextet, 6 Oh, septWhat! – septagon V 7 mittens have lost. Lost mittens! NFORATON RAPHC ORANZER oct, octo – octopus, octagon, octave V 8 naughty kittens! Thennovem shall have no pie. X 9 Title: X 10 dec, decem, deca – decade, decimal quinquaginta L 50 52 Introduction: C 100 cent – century, centennial, cent Fill in the missing pronouns. Choose pronouns  from 1 the list below.

FREND, NOT FOE Persuade readers that sharks are humans’ friends, not foes. Write three facts to support your

- top of the ocean food chain, balance marine ecosystem - over 400 kinds, only 30 have attacked humans

The FNE Print

- eat sick or injured animals

you

they

Choosing the right pronouns is easy as pie if you know the job it does in the sentence. (Whose is also a possessive case pronoun.)

Can-Do Cursive

- about 80 shark attacks worldwide each year, rarely fatal - more humans die from the flu than by shark attack

Topic one:

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

Detail:

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Finish the sentences. Find clues above. Find the answers upside down.

 V

Topic two:

Copy these roots. They help with metric words.

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A bicycle has A tricycle has The pentagon has A century has

two wheels, three wheels, five sides, 100 years

opinion and a conclusion.



deci

centi

= hundredth

= tenth

milli

Topic three:

meter

Copy these metric words.

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centimeter 100th of a meter

millimeter 1000th of a meter

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= thousandth

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Can-Do Cursive

T he Vasa warship sank on its

maiden voyage.

T he Viking longship’s symmetrical design is amazing. My ancestors lived in a

floating village.

In Spanish!

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New grade-level journals provide independent writing practice on narrow double lines and single lines. (80 pages)

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Can-Do Cursive Student Edition

Can-Do Print Student Edition

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building writers FAR ANALS You have a farm! Write which animals you would have and why. Use the information below to help write your opinion.

With a developmental approach to writing, an intuitive design, and everything for supplemental writing practice all in one activity book, Building Writers supports any writing block or independent writing practice.

If I had a farm, I would have

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Print Child’s Name

Complete the chart. What do both animals have in common? What is different?

Structured Practice to Build Core Writing Skills

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Patrick scored. T he crowd cheered!

Baseball helmets are very hard.

I think soccer

My first

is the best

fishing trip

team sport.

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whales eat tiny prey.

It’s fun to

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Did you know?

NEW RL Use the illustrations and information below to complete the story about a new girl at school.

- alone at lunch Sue

Sue was alone at lunch.

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The Pre-K Interactive Teaching Tool

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The Pre-K Interactive Teaching Tool is a new digital teaching platform that includes digital versions of the teacher’s guide, animated videos, music, and more. Available in English and Spanish!

Music & Movement

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Lively and engaging music and songs help young learners better understand complex pre-writing and math concepts as they are reinforced through movement and fun.

Read-Aloud Trade Book Library

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Classic and familiar titles by award-winning authors enrich the Get Set for School Read-Aloud Trade Book Library Pack. The teacher’s guide includes tips for effectively integrating the literature in your Pre-K classroom. Available in English, Spanish, and Dual Language.

Multisensory Manipulatives & Tools

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Our specially designed manipulatives are an integral component of our complete Pre-K program. We understand how young children learn and how to best meet their needs. We have built an unparalleled, multisensory curriculum focused on developing the whole child.

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Full curriculum is available in English and Spanish! Language & Literacy Physical Development

Learning Domains Readiness & Writing

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Science & Social Studies

Pre-K Handwriting Unit 3: Week 16 At-A-Glance

Theme: Community & Play

Focus: Letter Gg & Number 6

Approaches to Learning/SocialEmotional Learning

Children learn to identify Gg and its sound by building sentences with words and write capital letter G through hands-on activities like the Wet-Dry-Try. Identifying, counting, and writing 6 and exploring patterns are covered in math. Science, Social Studies and Oral Language mainly focus on celebrations.

Day 1 Language & Literacy

Day 2

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Recognize and name capital letters, recognize distinct letter sounds

Build spoken words into a sentence Position an object for use, placement, or release

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Sequence, demonstrate active listening Recognize and name capital letters, position capitals right side up, recognize distinct letter sounds Position an object for use, placement, or release, use visual cues to guide reaching for, grasping, and moving objects

Numbers & Math

Demonstrate active listening Match 1:1, verbally count 1-10

Oral Language, Science or Social Studies

Repeat words, say sentences, demonstrate understanding of word meaning

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Create a sensory bin for the letter G using various green objects.

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Onsets and rimes, break words into two parts

Sequence

Listen/follow directions, attend to a simple task

Recognize and name capital letters, recognize distinct letter sounds

Hold a tool with proper grip to write, use helping hand to stabilize objects

Enjoy writing and engage in writing activities, hold a tool with proper grip to write, use helping hand to stabilize objects

Take turns, work with others to solve problems

Take turns, use manipulatives to find a solution, look for a pattern to find a solution

Trace correctly step by step, enjoy and engage in writing activities

Duplicate and extend patterns Use same hand to hold tool, hold a tool with proper grip to write, notice and attach meaning to visual information

Use correct top-to-bottom, left-to-right directionality, trace correctly, step by step, color and draw creatively

Draw a picture to solve a problem

Demonstrate active listening skills

Identify numerals, find and describe patterns, identify and describe a pattern by telling the repeating unit look for a pattern to find a solution

Match 1:1, verbally count 1-10

Position an object for use, placement, or release

Trace correctly, step by step, color and draw creatively

Use same hand to hold tool, hold a tool with proper grip to write, use helping hand to stabilize objects

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Show increase in confidence

Take turns, remain engaged, listen/ follow directions

Find and describe patterns, duplicate and extend pattern

Repeat words, say sentences, Observe, investigate, describe and demonstrate understanding of word discuss characteristics of organisms LANGUAGE & LITERACY meaning Participate in dramatic play Materials: • Sound Around Box) App, Music o Color Tiles • App, Sound Around Letters, G

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Check for Understanding: Observe as children listen for and build sentences. Can they say the sentence after they listen to the words?

Build spoken words into a sentence Position an object for use, placement, or release

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We’re Learning: Demonstrate active listening Match 1:1, verbally count 1-10 Use same hand consistently to hold tool, hold a tool with proper grip to write, use helping hand to

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Vocabulary letter G, color words, goats, grass, green

Trace correctly, step by step, color and draw creatively

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Position an object for use, placement, or release, use visual cues to guide reaching for, grasping, and moving objects

5. Now let’s build G on the Mat. Give each child a Mat to place right-side up. Repeat step four on the Mat using My Turn, Your Turn. 6. It’s capital letter G!

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4. Children count 6. Children color the pages. Children trace number 6.

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Support/ELL: Use real objects to make a connection to 6. Count 6 gummy bears.

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Enrichment: Discuss. You can invite guests by sending an invitation. Have you sent an invitation?

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New! Get Set for School Pre-K Teacher’s Guide Set The Get Set for School two-volume Teacher’s Guide Set (available in English and Spanish) provides comprehensive teaching strategies to help educators implement a scaffolded approach to instruction using targeted, explicit lessons that address each developmental learning domain. The step-by-step lessons integrate our unique manipulatives to bring literacy and learning alive in all Pre-K classrooms. •

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3. Chose what pages you want to complete with children. Use real objects to count. Sing nursery rhymes and songs.

Support/ELL: Provide verbal and physical prompts as needed. Distribute pretend invitations.

Enrichment: Find objects around the room that begin with G.

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2. Show letter card. Name the picture and “read” the word.

Grouping: Whole group, small group

Enrichment: Have children review numbers 1–6.

Enrichment: Challenge children by having them make up their own sentences as they place the color tiles for each word of their sentence.

Multisensory Introduction: Sing and move to “Where do You Start Your Letters?”

Objective: Children learn math by coloring, counting, building, rhyming, singing, and playing using I Know My Numbers.

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Support/ELL: Begin the activity with two-word action sentences. For example, I hop.

Learn G Using Capitals with the Letter Cards & the Mat for Wood Pieces

Theme: Community & Play

Repeat words, say sentences, demonstrate understanding of word NUMBERS & MATH meaning Materials:

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Understand print has meaning

App, Animations, A Click Away, Letter & (1 per child) Number Formations

Place die cut letter G’s around the classroom Create counting boxes using small plastic and have children go on a letter G hunt. containers. Place six objects/manipulatives in We’re Learning each container for children to count.

2. Place the Sound Around Box and color tiles on table.

Use same hand consistently to hold tool, hold a tool with proper grip to write, use helping hand to stabilize object

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Use art as a form of creative expression

Trace correctly step by step

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Help create simple patterns with a /g/ sound in Gail, 1. children Introduce G and its sound. G makes physical props classroom likea toy, goat, gas,from andthe goals. G makes /j/ sound in George, book,gym, toy, book. gentle, and giraffe.

Recognize and name capital letters, recognize distinct letter sounds

Take turns, remain engaged, listen/ follow directions

4. Demonstrate first: Goats (place color tile), eat (place another color tile), and grass (place another color tile). Have all children repeat the sentence.

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Day 5 Take turns, listen/follow directions

Recognize and name lowercase letters, identify the repeated initial sound in words

Sequence, listen/follow directions, attend to a simple task

Describe local, state, and national cultural events, celebrations, and word into a sentence. Objective: Children put a spoken holidays Grouping: Small group App, Music, Live Teaching Video

Physical Development

Take turns, demonstrate active listening

Position an object for use, placement, or release, use both sides of the body, use visual cues to guide reaching for, grasping, and moving objects, reach across midline to get an object from other side

Unit 3: Week 16: Day 1

Creative Arts

Recognize and name capital letters, recognize distinct letter sounds

Recognize, appreciate, and respect similarities and differences in people, perceive themselves as unique individuals, show care and concern for others, child expresses creativity in Focus: Letterand G and Number 6 thinking communication

Social Studies

Take turns, listen/follow directions

Learn words linked to content, use new vocabulary, communicate thoughts with words, talk about experiences/ observations

Social Studies

Understand print has meaning

Science

Color and draw creatively

Oral Language Take turns, remain engaged, listen/ follow directions

Mathematics

Sequence, listen/follow directions, attend to a simple task

Position an object for use, placement, or release

Trace correctly, step by step, color and draw creatively

Emergent Writing

Position an object for use, placement, or release, notice and attach meaning to visual information

Identify and describe a pattern by telling the repeating unit, duplicate and extend pattern, match 1:1, verbally count 1-10

Use same hand consistently to hold tool, hold a tool with proper grip to write, use helping hand to stabilize object

Emergent Literacy

Day 3

Cooperate with peers, listen/follow directions

Speak in 3+ word sentences

Language/ Communication

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My First School Book Activity Book

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Handwriting Pre-K The Pre-K Interactive Teaching Tool

A new digital teaching platform for managing and teaching lessons from our activity books and teacher’s guides with multimedia assets, including digital letter and number formations, instructional videos, music, and more. The Pre-K Interactive Teaching Tool reduces teacher prep time and is compatible with any whiteboard or projector. Get your children ready for kindergarten with fun readiness lessons! Also available with the Readiness & Writing Pre-K Teacher’s Guide. GRADE: Pre-K PREKITT-GSS PREKITT-RW

Student Apps Sold with the Get Set for School Curriculum Kit. Also sold separately.

Wet-Dry-Try App*

Bring the multisensory genius of our Slate Chalkboard and Blackboard with Double Lines to your device.

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Sound Around Letters App*

Children identify, match, and say capital and lowercase letters, their sounds, and words beginning with the target letter. Touch & Flip Numbers App*

Children identify, match, count, say, trace, and write numbers 1–20 with interactive games and familiar Get Set for School activities.

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Pre-K Handwriting Pre-K Color Wall Cards

Includes 36 eye-catching letter and number cards that promote correct formations. (8.5" x 11") GRADES: Pre-K-TK

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This fun puppet friend helps you teach the C stroke to begin capitals C, O, G, and Q and lowercase letters a, d, g, o, and q. GRADES: Pre-K-3

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FLIP Crayons®

Promote proper grip and fine motor skills by flipping our unique FLIP Crayons. 10 colors are included—2 colors and 2 points per crayon. Actual Size

GRADES: Pre-K-K

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Learning With Music Music, dance, and finger plays reach children the way they learn best—through active, engaging, and real-life experiences. Music boosts memory, fosters body awareness, and builds motor skills in young children. Sing, Sound & Count With Me Music Album

Reinforce language and number concepts with your children as they move and play to 29 upbeat songs set. GRADE: Pre-K

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Get Set for School Sing Along Music Album

Children sing, tap, and dance along to 25 songs to develop important social, cognitive, and physical skills. GRADE: Pre-K

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NUMBERS & MATH Materials: • I Know My Numbers Booklet 6 (1 per child) • Flip Crayons • Objects to Count Beginning with Letter G • PreKTT, Music, “The Ant, the Bug and the Bee”

Objective: Children learn math by coloring, counting, building, rhyming, singing, and playing using I Know My Numbers. Grouping: Whole group, small group

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Check for Understanding: Observe as children use the booklet. Do they make a

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Support/ELL: Use real objects to make a connection to 6. Count 6 gummy bears.

Word Time is integrated in Oral Language lessons in the Get Set for School Pre-K Teacher’s Guide Set (p. 56).

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Word Time™

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Read-Aloud Trade Book Library The Get Set for School Read-Aloud Trade Book Library, featuring beloved and contemporary titles from award-winning children’s authors, is integrated throughout the Pre-K curriculum. Find a complete list of titles on the website at LWTears.com/fall2021

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Children develop number formation skills with songs and rhymes. 10 booklets in the set, 1 booklet for each number 1–10, each with 14 pages.

Children sort, sequence, slide, turn, and flip shapes to fit puzzle pieces on 24 different patterns. Box contains an activity booklet with 10 activities, 12 pattern boards, and 84 shape pieces in 6 bright colors.

Children identify, sort, trace, move shapes, build patterns, and learn to measure. Box contains an activity booklet with 10 activities,15 shapes (70 pieces total), and a cloth drawstring back for in-class storage.

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Children roll lines and curves of dough to make capitals and numbers using the blue tray for guidance. Set includes 18 double-sided capital and number cards, tray, and 12 ounce tub of dough.

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Children learn capital formations through imitation. Use the set for teaching size, shape, and position words and concepts! Set includes: 8 Big Lines, 6 Big Curves, 6 Little Lines, and 6 Little Curves. (26 pieces) GRADE: Pre-K

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Use together to boost student learning!

Children who’ve mastered guided letter formation with Capital Letter Cards progress to building letters on the Mat for Wood Pieces. The smiley face on the top left corner reminds them where to start. (8" x 11") GRADES: K-2

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Handwriting Pre-K

Equal & Equitable Access for All Your Spanish Language Students

Our digital solutions all include Spanish language options, supporting multilingual early learning.

The Pre-K Interactive Teaching Tool A new digital teaching platform for managing and teaching lessons from our activity books and teacher’s guides with multimedia assets, including digital letter and number formations, instructional videos, music, and more. The Interactive Digital Teaching Tool reduces teacher prep time and is compatible with any whiteboard or projector. Get your children ready for kindergarten with fun readiness lessons! Also available with the Readiness & Writing Pre-K Teacher’s Guide. GRADE: Pre-K PRE-KITT-GSS PREKITT-RW

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Research Indicates: Spanish-speaking preschoolers experience significant improvements in their English skills when they have a good grasp of Spanish letters and numbers. An early education program that connects children’s word and math skills in Spanish to those in English can increase school readiness for Spanishspeaking children. University of Missouri, 2016

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Spanish Pre-K Color Wall Cards GRADES: Pre-K-TK SWCCPK

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Spanish Pre-K Name Plates GRADES: Pre-K-TK

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Keyboarding

Results-Driven Improvement in Typing Technique, Speed & Accuracy

Keyboarding Without Tears includes a unique, patented approach to help all students in grades K–5 master the essential twenty-first century skill of keyboarding.

What sets us apart? • Easy to teach, easy to learn

• Grade-level progression

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• Patented home row instruction

• Tech readiness activities

• Game-based lessons build typing fluency and speed

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Keyboarding Without Tears integrates typing exercises, cross-curricular themes, and online test preparation. It also includes digital citizenship lessons. 70

In just 5–10 minutes per day or 30 minutes per week, students learn this essential life skill.

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Keyboarding

Prepare Your Students for Twenty-First Century Careers Just as handwriting is a foundation skill for literacy, keyboarding is a foundation skill for coding—the new digital literacy! Keyboarding instruction teaches students how to type using proper technique, efficiently use the keyboard and mouse, and safely navigate the internet.

Educator Dashboard for Keyboarding Without Tears The +Live Insights® digital dashboard enables administrators and educators to: • Manage class and student settings • Access video support for setup and getting started • Review teacher’s guide and student activity previews • Obtain student reports and monitor progress • Enable features to customize the class or student experience

Proven-Effective Students using Keyboarding Without Tears have had a 43 percent higher average wordsper-minute (WPM) score.

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Keyboarding

Grade-Level Keyboarding

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GRADE 1 My Keying Board

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Develops fine motor skills

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Builds typing muscle memory

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Teaches keyboard and mouse functions

Strengthens drag and drop skills

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Includes practice for typing letters and words

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Build a Keyboard activity board Leveraging all we know about multisensory learning, we’ve applied it to teaching keyboarding. Children learn how to locate, match, and identify letter, number, and action keys on an 11" x 17" magnetic board. GRADES: K–2

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Keyboarding

GRADE 3 Keyboarding

GRADE 4 Keyboarding Success

GRADE 5 Can-Do Keyboarding

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Teaches number and action keys

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Shows how to format and type paragraphs

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Helps students handle standards and testing in higher grades

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GRADE: 3 KEY3

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (SPONSOR-LED LEARNING EXPERIENCE) This foundational tier provides your educators with the instruction, strategies, knowledge, and skills needed for beginning curriculum implementation. This specialized tier targets specific learning and instructional outcomes, based on individual curriculum usage and educator-identified personalized learning needs. This comprehensive tier dives deep, building on targeted implementation with student lesson observation and individualized or group coaching, addressing advanced differentiation, modification, and remediation.

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With implementation of the teacher’s guide, activity books, and manipulatives—Pre-K teachers have the tools they need to successfully prepare young children for kindergarten. Schronda McKnight-Burns, M. Ed. Assistant Director of Early Childhood Education Bryan Independent School District, TX

The intertwined connections to real world, real life, and all the learning modalities facilitate learner success. Vanessa Brown, B.A., M.Ed. Retired Assistant Principal and ELA Coordinator

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