Butterflies Phonetic Decodable Reader
Practice sounding out/chunking pre-taught multisyllabic words (e.g., 'but-ter-fly', 'cat-er-pill-ars'), then read the short story about a girl observing a caterpillar's transformation into a butterfly.
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Practice sounding out/chunking pre-taught multisyllabic words (e.g., 'but-ter-fly', 'cat-er-pill-ars'), then read the short story about a girl observing a caterpillar's transformation into a butterfly.
Read a nonfiction passage aloud, record reading time and words struggled with, answer comprehension questions, complete a spelling activity, retell/summarize a passage in the student's own words, and (for Camel Humps) research and write about another animal of choice citing sources.
Read a short decodable story titled "The Picnic" built mainly from CVC words plus the pre-taught sight word(s) it/It, doll, picnic (pre-taught, with picnic flagged for syllable segmenting: pic-nic).
Students complete a sequence of activities for the word "a": color a cover page, find-and-color the word among distractors in a word search grid, trace and write the word, spell it using letter tiles/stamps, cut and paste examples of the word, then read/write/draw and complete fluency-reading and fill-in-the-blank sentence pages using…
Read a short decodable story titled "A Mess" built mainly from CVC words plus the pre-taught sight word(s) of (flagged as an odd word that cannot be sounded out).
Read the 'Power From the Sun' passage; answer multiple-choice/short-answer comprehension questions including a true/false correction and a multi-step math word problem (panels needed to power light bulbs); read a 162-word excerpt aloud and record time taken and words struggled with; write a summary of the passage.
Provide decodable sentences using short-u CVC words for fluency and oral reading practice via a roll-and-read format.
Students complete a sequence of activities for the word "all": color a cover page, find-and-color the word among distractors in a word search grid, trace and write the word, spell it using letter tiles/stamps, cut and paste examples of the word, then read/write/draw and complete fluency-reading and fill-in-the-blank sentence pages using…
Read the 'Power From the Sun' passage; answer multiple-choice/short-answer comprehension questions including a true/false correction and a multi-step math word problem (panels needed to power light bulbs); read a 162-word excerpt aloud and record time taken and words struggled with; write a summary of the passage.
Read the 'Power From the Sun' passage; answer multiple-choice/short-answer comprehension questions including a true/false correction and a multi-step math word problem (panels needed to power light bulbs); read a 162-word excerpt aloud and record time taken and words struggled with; write a summary of the passage.
Students complete a sequence of activities for the word "about": color a cover page, find-and-color the word among distractors in a word search grid, trace and write the word, spell it using letter tiles/stamps, cut and paste examples of the word, then read/write/draw and complete fluency-reading and fill-in-the-blank sentence pages…
Students complete a sequence of activities for the word "after": color a cover page, find-and-color the word among distractors in a word search grid, trace and write the word, spell it using letter tiles/stamps, cut and paste examples of the word, then read/write/draw and complete fluency-reading and fill-in-the-blank sentence pages…
Read a nonfiction passage aloud, record reading time and words struggled with, answer comprehension questions, complete a spelling activity, retell/summarize a passage in the student's own words, and (for Camel Humps) research and write about another animal of choice citing sources.
Read a nonfiction passage aloud, record reading time and words struggled with, answer comprehension questions, complete a spelling activity, retell/summarize a passage in the student's own words, and (for Camel Humps) research and write about another animal of choice citing sources.
Students complete a sequence of activities for the word "again": color a cover page, find-and-color the word among distractors in a word search grid, trace and write the word, spell it using letter tiles/stamps, cut and paste examples of the word, then read/write/draw and complete fluency-reading and fill-in-the-blank sentence pages…
Students complete a sequence of activities for the word "air": color a cover page, find-and-color the word among distractors in a word search grid, trace and write the word, spell it using letter tiles/stamps, cut and paste examples of the word, then read/write/draw and complete fluency-reading and fill-in-the-blank sentence pages using…
Students complete a sequence of activities for the word "also": color a cover page, find-and-color the word among distractors in a word search grid, trace and write the word, spell it using letter tiles/stamps, cut and paste examples of the word, then read/write/draw and complete fluency-reading and fill-in-the-blank sentence pages…
Students complete a sequence of activities for the word "am": color a cover page, find-and-color the word among distractors in a word search grid, trace and write the word, spell it using letter tiles/stamps, cut and paste examples of the word, then read/write/draw and complete fluency-reading and fill-in-the-blank sentence pages using…
Read short sentences containing the sight word "how", fill in blanks with the word from memory on a second pass of the same sentences, then read a target sentence, copy/write it, and draw a picture illustrating it.
Read short sentences containing the sight word "home", fill in blanks with the word from memory on a second pass of the same sentences, then read a target sentence, copy/write it, and draw a picture illustrating it.
Read sentences containing the sight word; read the same sentences with the word blanked out and write the missing word; then copy one model sentence using the word and draw a picture illustrating it.
Read a short passage that uses the word "one" several times, fill in the missing word from memory in a cloze version of the same passage, then read a sentence containing "one", copy/write the sentence, and draw a picture illustrating it.
Read sentences containing the sight word "sit"; fill in the blanked-out word while reading a repeated passage; copy a model sentence containing the word onto blank lines; draw a picture illustrating the sentence.
Read a short passage that repeats the sight word "may" several times; fill in blanks with the word "may" in a second version of the same passage; then read a sentence containing "may", copy/write the sentence, and draw a picture about it.