For those who do not use LM, YBCR etc and who follow Doman. This is working for us already for 2 months! Please see my attached ppt file.
1. There are 6 words (10 were too many and 5 too few for my 7 months old). Show the slide show. It will stop at the first green slide.
2. In "slide sorter view", change the order of slides. Just do some "drag and drop" with your mouse.
3. Take one light green slide and put it between the two dark green slides. By dragging and dropping. So you will know how many times this word set was shown. No need to remember or to make notes.
4. After 5 times (or 6 if you were lazy) it is time to retire old words. Words are numbered. Find one or two words with the lowest numbers and manually retype them with other words. Usually I write words which are important for this day. Today we have the first snow so I will write "snow". Today we watched flying birds, I will write "fly". In other days I take words from the lists below.
5. Change the numbers of new words so, that they have the highest numbers now. I just add 10. 35 -> 45.
6. After some time I found that I forget which words were already used
. So, below there are slides with words, divided in categories. Categories are: family, body, room and bathroom, kitchen and eating, clothes, food, vegetables and fruits, outdoor, nature and plants, animals, toys and playing, actions, adjectives and colors.
Every word belong to one of these categories. Taken words I move or write below the line. So I will know which words were used. I will write "snow" below the line in slide "outdoors".
Titles of categories are large enough to be seen in slide sorter view. All slides can be seen in one screen. So the replacing of words is very easy and fast.
At the very beginning, you will need 9 more light green slides because the first word set must be shown 15 times.
You can find list of words in English in this discussion
http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-to-read/daily-schedule-for-reading/ but that system did not work for us.
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