Controlled Language Science Series Student Workbook Praying Mantis/Housefly/Honey Bee Author:Fleury, Peggy The Controlled Language Science Series has been designed to suit the linguistic needs of elementary age deaf children. Most readers designed for the normal, hearing population control vocabulary and the rate of introduction of new words. In addition to that traditional control, this series has controlled linguistic structures. The linguistic ... more »structures used in this series are those acquired by normal individuals at the age of three. These early developing structures were considered to be the ones most desirable for the text. If the structure develops in the normal child after three years of age, it was considered a difficult structure for the deaf child and used sparingly. The vocabulary that is used was taken from the Dolch list of 220 words most commonly used in beginning reading books. Idiomatic and figurative language was not used.« less