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Grade 1Theme 4

Week 2Day 3

Little Bugsby Shannon Clay

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Kris, Sid, Jess, and Jo were

students in the same class.

Kris and Sid were little bugs. Jess

and Jo were big bugs.

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Jo picked on Sid in class. “Can

you see over your desk, little rug

bug?” joked Jo.

“Being little is not so bad,”

sniffed Sid.

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Sid passed Kris going outside. “Jo

made fun of me because I am little,”

sniffed Sid.

“Little can be good,” stated Kris.

Kris winked at Sid. Sid smiled. Sid,Kris, Jo, and Jess flitted outside.

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Jo yelled, “Tag! You’re it!” Jo

tapped Sid.

Jo ran and ran, but little Sid was

quick. Sid could move fast.

“I tagged you! It’s your turn to be

it!” yelled Sid.

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Jo griped, “Tag is not fun. Let’s

hide. It’s my turn to be it!”

“I found you!” said Jo to Jess.

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Kris and Sid did not move. Jo and

Jess looked and looked but could not

find Sid and Kris.

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Sid and Kris landed when Jo and

Jess gave up. “We could not find

you!” gasped Jo. “Where did

you hide?”

“That’s a little bug secret!” said

Sid. He winked at Kris. “It can be

good to be little!”

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Note to FAMILY: Practicing phonics at home will help your child

to master decoding and to develop fluency in reading. It is especially

important to focus on mastering this week’s Target Phonics Elements

and High-Frequency Words. This will quickly help your child to

become a successful reader.

Please read this book with your child. Remember to use the Read,Listen, and Complete routine:

Read ...........Read to your child.

Listen ..........Listen to your child read to you.

Complete....Complete an activity from the Phonics Activity

Menu. Then, listen to your child read once more.

Target Phonics Elements: ed /d/, /t/; verb ending (-ed)

flitted, gasped, griped, joked, landed, looked, passed, picked,

smiled, sniffed, stated, tagged, tapped, winked, yelled

Target High-Frequency Words: found, move, turn

Reviewed Decodable Words: am, and, at, bad, be, being, big,

bug, bugs, but, can, class, desk, did, fast, fun, gave, going, he, hide,

in, is, it, it’s, Jess, Jo, Kris, let’s, made, me, not, on, quick, ran, rug,

same, secret, Sid, so, students, tag, that’s, the, up, we, when

Reviewed High-Frequency Words: a, because, could, find,

good, I, little, my, of, outside, over, said, see, to, was, were, where,

you, your, you’re