"Blue Dilly Dilly" is designed to develop competence in basic aspects of the reading process including word and story comprehension, structural analysis and reference skills. "Blue Dilly Dilly" requires the student to participate in activities such as learning the sequence of the letters of the alphabet, writing endings for unfinished stories, using a picture dictionary and table of contents, using phonetic-analysis skills including the use of vowels with "r" and demonstrating auditory perception of stressed syllables. Students are also asked to select the most appropriate story title from several alternatives and to select words or phrases within a story which answer specific questions or complete sentences. All components and supplementary materials including activity books which providewritten exercises to supplement the texts; duplicating masters; and competency tests may be purchased separately. RMF, 5-76.