A Special Preprimer

This demonstration might help students related to new readers “decoding” written

language. The last slide is the answer key. I first saw this demonstration done by Doug

Bernstein, University of South Florida

Answer Key for A Special Preprimer Sam

Daddy Look Daddy Look at me Look Daddy

Look at the duck See me Daddy See me shoot

Daddy did see Sam shoot He looked at the duck The duck did not fall

Daddy looked at Sam He saw Sam fall

Daddy smiled at Sam Did you see the duck Sam?

The duck did not fall You did fall, Sam, smiled Daddy

Look Sam, look at the duck See me shoot him. See him fall.

Daddy did shoot the duck Sam saw the duck fall

You did not need to shoot smiled Sam. The fall killed him.