This is a decodable book and companion activities to build your students' phonics skills, fluency, and reading comprehension. The reader tells the story of The 3 Billy Goats Gruff and focuses on words with consonants blends. Perfect for late first to second grade. 
 
The book primarily focuses on R blends, but also contains other common consonant pairs. There are worksheets for R blends, S blends, and mixed blends.
 
This resource includes:
20-page decodable reader
Pictures to glue into the reader
3 consonant blends worksheets
8 word/picture cards
Answer keys
 
DECODABLE READER
To complete the book, students will:
Read a list a sight words found in the story, checking off the ones they know
Read the target blends (br, cr, dr, fr, gr, tr)
Read the story
Highlight words in the story with the target phonics patterns
Add pictures to the story that support the text (cut and glue)
Re-read the story to build fluency
Answer comprehension questions about the story
Record the words they highlighted, sorting by phonics pattern
 
Skills include:
reading words with consonant blends in context and isolation
identifying setting
sequencing story events
using context clues to understand unfamiliar words
identifying cause and effect
 
WORD CARDS
Each card includes a picture and a word from the story that contains an R blend. The word has elkonin boxes in place of the blend. Students say the word and determine what letters are missing. These cards can be laminated and used with dry erase markers.
 
WORKSHEETS
Worksheet 1 - Students read and sort words with initial R blends
Worksheet 2 - Students read and sort words with initial S blend
Worksheet 3 - Student read words with a variety of consonant blends. They also complete a phoneme substitution activity in which they read a word with a blend and then change the blend to create a new word.
 
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