This decodable book that tells the story of Stone Soup and gives students practice reading words with long vowel teams. The reader builds fluency, phonics, and comprehension skills. It includes companion worksheets and literacy center activities.

This resource includes:

20-page decodable reader
Pictures to glue into the reader
3 vowel teams worksheets
20 word/picture cards
Answer keys

Students will practice reading words containing the vowel teams ai, ea, ee, ie, oa, oo, and ou. There are also many common sight words in the story.

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 vowel teams
Read the story of Stone Soup
Highlight words in the story with the target letter sounds
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 words they highlighted, sorting by phonics pattern

Skills include:

reading words with vowel teams in context and isolation
recalling story details
using context clues to understand unfamiliar words
identifying cause and effect relationships in the text

WORD CARDS

Each card includes a picture and a word from the story that contains a vowel pair. The words have elkonin boxes in place of the target letters. Students say the word and determine what letters are missing. These cards can be laminated and used with dry erase markers in your reading centers. Includes 20 cards.

WORKSHEETS

Worksheet 1 - EE, EA, and EI words
Worksheet 2 - Long A Vowel Teams
Worksheet 3 - OO and OU words

On each worksheet, students read and sort words containing the focus vowel pairs. On worksheet 1, there are also pictures with words that contain elkonin boxes in place of the vowels. Students say the word and fill in the missing letters. On worksheet 2, they complete long A words by adding the correct vowel team. On worksheet 3, they sort the words by the sound the OO or OU produces.

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