Do your students need practice with r-controlled vowels? How about comprehension skills? This decodable reader tells the story of The Little Red Hen and focuses on fluency, phonics, and comprehension. It includes companion activities for additional practice with r-controlled vowels.
 
This resource includes:
20-page decodable reader
Pictures to glue into the reader
2 differentiated worksheets
10 word/picture cards
Answer keys
Digital activities in Easel
 
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 letters/sounds (ar, er, ir, or, ur)
Read the story
Highlight words in the story with the target phonics pattern
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 r-controlled vowels in context and isolation
identifying character traits
sequencing story events
identifying cause and effect
 
WORD CARDS
Each card includes a picture and a word from the book that contains an r-controlled vowel. The word has elkonin boxes in place of the vowel and R. Students say the word and determine which r-controlled vowel completes it. These cards can be laminated and used with dry erase markers.
 
WORKSHEETS
On both worksheets, students read and sort words containing r-controlled vowels. The first worksheet includes an easier set of words than the second one. This lets you differentiate for students of different reading abilities. It also gives students a more challenging set to work with after successfully completing the first worksheet.