First Words: My Community — Level 1

Ten units: one hundred parent-read lessons and ten checks covering familiar community words, objects, people and places, followed by a six-word cumulative capstone. Luna narration and saved progress are held.

• At the Entrance — Recognize the preschool place and two things that may be near its entrance.
• Inside the Learning Room — Distinguish the classroom as a room from two objects used inside it.
• Keeping and Making — Name two ways to keep belongings and one material used for making marks.
• One Thing or a Place — Reconnect place names with exterior, room and compartment views, each presented alone.
• Look at the Parts — Use visible whole-object features to distinguish an entrance panel, a seat and a hanging fixture.
• Picture-Making Area — Retrieve art-area words while keeping the material, support and room meanings separate.
• Finding Belongings — Identify a compartment, a hanging fixture and an entrance without treating all three as storage.
• A Quiet Picture Visit — Retrieve arrival words after intervening lessons and distinguish a bell from a seat.
• Tell the Pictures Apart — Retrieve small material and supporting objects across different preschool areas.
• Remember Our Visit — Retrieve a room, storage compartment and signaling object after mixed practice.
• Going to Preschool — Show What You Know — Parent-read community picture vocabulary review. Audio and saved progress are held.
• Learning Together — Name teacher, student and principal with explicit roles in a school story.
• Books, Care and Meals — Name three school support roles from narrated person-and-task scenes.
• Keeping School Going — Name building-care and school-arrival roles without directing real-world action.
• Who Is Teaching, Learning or Leading? — Compare explicit teaching/learning/leading relationships; roles not clothing identify people.
• A Job in the Story — Retrieve a taught role from a short book/care/meal clue, then return to role-name requests.
• Find the Person I Meant — Observe a wrong named-person picture and choose the requested story role.
• One Person, Another Task — Explicitly model three same people doing different tasks without changing their story roles.
• Remember Our School People — Begin with three role-name requests before role models, then provide story/function support.
• Listen to the Story Clue — Use short narrated learning/leading/crossing situations, then fade back to names.
• Same Role, Familiar Pictures — Retrieve previously modeled second tasks without previews, alternating primary and second-task scenes.
• People at School — Show What You Know — Parent-read school people and familiar role-function picture review. Audio and saved progress are held.
• Three Playground Places — Name three distinct playground structures before asking which visible shape fits.
• Carry, Rest, and Play — Name a bench, bucket and ball; distinguish long seat, container and round toy.
• Look at the Structure — Retrieve structure names from slope, hanging seat and sand-filled frame rather than color.
• What Shape Do We Need? — Connect physical features to bench, bucket and ball, then fade clues to names.
• A New Playground Request — Replace an explicitly named prior object with a new requested playground structure.
• Fix the Chosen Picture — Reject an actual wrong object cue and find the requested portable or resting object.
• Two Kinds of Seats — Separate hanging seat, long ground-supported seat and slope across cross-category foils.
• Sand Area or Container? — Distinguish sand area from portable container; repair both directions, then retrieve by name.
• Remember the Playground — Retrieve three structures before models, then alternate new requests and repair.
• Choose, Explain, and Fix — Retrieve familiar objects before examples, then alternate feature clues, changes and repairs.
• Playground Words — Show What You Know — Parent-read playground object and structure review. Audio and saved progress are held.
• Books and Their Places — Learn book, bookshelf and bookmark; distinguish one book, whole storage furniture and narrow place keeper.
• A Card and Reading Furniture — Explicitly teach pretend library card; contrast a work top and a seat.
• One Book or a Whole Shelf — Compare pages, shelves and work top without counting nested books as a second answer.
• Small Helpers, Big Seat — Use the taught purposes of bookmark and library card; distinguish narrow strip from wide card without reading.
• My Library Choice Changes — Update an explicitly named first choice to the new request with an actual prior picture.
• Fix the Furniture Choice — Reject the shown wrong furniture and use shelves, work top or seat to repair the choice.
• Keep My Place or Borrow — Contrast a book itself, keeping a page and borrowing a book; functions given in words, not hidden action inference.
• A Reading Corner Request — Keep track of explicit changed furniture requests, then diagnose wrong furniture using its structure.
• Remember the Small Things — Retrieve before any new model, then revise and repair book-related requests.
• Remember the Reading Furniture — Retrieve remaining words before examples, then reason from shape and repair a wrong selection.
• Visiting the Library — Show What You Know — Parent-read library object and structure review. Audio and saved progress are held.
• Ways to Carry Shopping — Introduce three carriers; distinguish wheels, rigid basket and flexible bag.
• Weigh, Pay, Keep the Paper — Teach weighing machine, whole payment counter and purchase paper with explicit purposes.
• Fix the Carrier — Use a carrier feature, reject an actual wrong carrier, then retrieve its name.
• Change the Store Helper — Use taught purpose, update a prior requested helper, then name it without a clue.
• A New Carrier Request — Select by name, change an explicit earlier choice, then correct a wrong displayed carrier.
• Fix a Store Mix-Up — Start with words, repair the actual wrong referent, then select from a purpose without hearing its name.
• Wheels, Weighing, Paying — Contrast three large objects/places across semantic groups; update and repair instead of choosing by size.
• Carry It or Keep the Paper — Distinguish rigid carrier, soft carrier and paper across groups; repair first then follow a changed request.
• Remember the Carriers — Cold retrieval before examples, followed by structural reasoning and repair as spaced practice.
• Remember the Store Helpers — Cold retrieval of remaining words before models, followed by new requests and wrong-picture correction.
• At the Grocery Store — Show What You Know — Parent-read shopping object and structure review. Audio and saved progress are held.
• Beside and Across a Road — Introduce sidewalk, crosswalk and streetlight by visible structure; no crossing instructions.
• Barriers and a Resting Place — Introduce fixed fence, hinged gate and long seat; name rather than open, climb or use them.
• Fix Beside or Across — Contrast walkway direction, reject the actual wrong road-feature picture, then retrieve its word.
• Change the Barrier Picture — Distinguish fixed barrier/opening/seat and follow an explicitly changed picture request.
• A Different Street Picture — Update a named earlier street-feature request, then repair an actual mismatch; no real route action.
• A Mistake by the Garden — Repair wrong barrier or seat choice, then select from a physical clue without naming the target.
• Lamp, Barrier, or Seat — Cross semantic groups: distinguish tall lamp, fixed boards and long seat without background shortcut.
• Walkway, Markings, or Opening — Separate a beside-road strip, across-road markings and hinged opening; apply fixes and changed requests.
• Remember Street Features — Cold retrieval before new models, then explain by feature and repair with familiar images.
• Remember Barriers and Seats — Cold retrieval of remaining nouns before models, followed by self-contained updates and repairs.
• Walking with a Grown-Up — Show What You Know — Parent-read walking-place object and structure review. Audio and saved progress are held.
• Road and Rail Pictures — Introduce short car, long bus and rail engine; recognize whole referents without counting passengers.
• Pedals, Water, and Wings — Introduce bicycle, boat and airplane using visible parts and explicitly taught uses.
• Fix the Road or Rail Choice — Use visible body clues, reject an actual wrong vehicle, then retrieve its name without a clue.
• A Different Vehicle Request — Compare pedals, hull and wings, update an explicitly shown old choice, then name it.
• Change My Road Picture — Update a named earlier vehicle request, then correct a concrete picture mismatch.
• Fix Pedals, Water, or Wings — Repair the wrong displayed vehicle and then select from parts or taught use without the name.
• Seats Do Not Make Them the Same — Cross groups to distinguish enclosed cabin, saddle/pedals and wings; sharing seats is not enough.
• Long Body or Boat Hull — Contrast long roadbody, railengine and open hull; repair wrongpicture then follow newrequest.
• Remember Road and Rail — Cold retrieval before models, then body-feature reasoning and correction as spaced practice.
• Remember Pedals, Water, and Wings — Cold retrieval of remaining vehicles before examples, followed by self-contained updates and repairs.
• Riding Places — Show What You Know — Parent-read vehicle object and structure review. Audio and saved progress are held.
• Care and Repair — Meet three story helpers and connect a health visit, tooth model and bicycle repair to their named roles.
• Letters, Bread, and a Hose — Meet three more story helpers through clear everyday tasks, then follow a changed request.
• Different Kinds of Care — Distinguish two clinic roles and a repair role without using clothing; retrieve names after a changed request.
• Fix the Helper Picture — Use a stated task to select a modeled helper, repair a wrong picture, and update a request.
• Who Has This Task? — Cross groups to distinguish listening at a visit, delivering a letter and arranging bread.
• The Request Can Change — Remember three names, update a self-contained request, then identify the helper from the modeled task.
• Listen to Each Person — Keep two people’s picture requests separate; choose the requested helper using the specific modeled task.
• Tools Do Not Name the Person — Use the whole narrated task, not work clothes or a single prop, to repair and distinguish requests.
• Remember Care and Repair — Cold name retrieval before models, then keep two speakers separate and repair a wrong request with cross-group helper contrasts.
• Remember Letters, Bread, and a Hose — Cold name retrieval before models, then keep two speakers separate and update a changed request with cross-group helper contrasts.
• People Who Help — Show What You Know — Parent-read familiar story-helper review. Audio and saved progress are held.
• Books, Grass, and Groceries — Meet three whole-place views, then follow a changed request.
• Care, Bread, and Mail — Meet three more place examples, then fix a wrong place card.
• Listen to the Second Person — Compare room and outdoor clues, choose the second speaker's request, then update it.
• Which Place Came First? — Contrast two shops and a mail-service place; retrieve an earlier request and fix a mismatch.
• Books or Food Displays — Recall before models, repair reading-versus-food displays, then select a different speaker.
• A New Place Card — Follow new requests across outdoor, health and mail contexts, then keep two speakers apart.
• Several Places Have Rooms — Shared rooms or counters are not enough; use whole named contexts and repair a mismatch.
• Remember the First Request — Recall before models, select earlier requests, then switch to current requests.
• Remember Three Places — Recall first, select the second speaker rather than a place clue, then repair cross-group wrong cards.
• Remember Three More Places — Recall first, retrieve an earlier place instead of the visible later card, then update cross-group requests.
• Places We Visit — Show What You Know — Parent-read whole community-place review. Audio and saved progress are held.
• Remember School, Play, and Books — Cold retrieval of cubby, swing, bookmark followed by function and context switch.
• Remember Shopping, Gates, and Travel — Cold retrieval of shopping cart, gate, bus followed by function and repair.
• A Different Job for the Picture — Cold retrieval of cubby, swing, shopping cart followed by second and repair.
• Listen Before and After — Cold retrieval of bookmark, gate, bus followed by earlier and context switch.
• Storage, Pages, and an Opening — Cold retrieval of cubby, bookmark, gate followed by contrast and second.
• Wheels Do Not Mean the Same Thing — Cold retrieval of swing, shopping cart, bus followed by contrast and earlier.
• A Story Can Change the Choice — Cold retrieval of cubby, shopping cart, gate followed by context switch and repair.
• Keep Two Requests Apart — Cold retrieval of swing, bookmark, bus followed by second and earlier.
• Fix a Mixed-Up Community Story — Cold retrieval of cubby, swing, bookmark followed by earlier and context switch.
• Bring the Words Together — Cold retrieval of shopping cart, gate, bus followed by second and contrast.
• Community Words Together — Show What You Know — Parent-read cumulative community-word review. Audio and saved progress are held.

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