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Words to Know

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At Home:Use the cover of the Activity Book to talk about what you and your child see.

Illustrator credits: Cvr: Luciana Navarro Powell. 3: (l) Liz Conrad; (r) Jim Kelly. 4: Nathan Jarvis. 7: Bernard Adnet. 8: Nathan Jarvis. 11: Lyuba Bogan. 12: Nathan Jarvis. 15: Karen Strommer Brooks. 16: Karen Strommer Brooks. Photo Credits: All Photographs by Macmillan/McGraw Hill (MMH) except as noted below: 1: (a) Stockdisc/PunchStock, (b) Radlund & Associates/Getty Images, (c) Eureka/Alamy, (d) imagebroker/Alamy, (e) Dirk v. Mallinckrodt/Alamy, (f) Jupiter Images/Comstock Images/Alamy, (g) Jules Frazier/Getty Images, (h) age fotostock/SuperStock, (i) Photodisc/Getty Images, (j) Rubberball Productions/Getty Images, (k) John Shaw/Photo Researchers, (l) C Squared Studios/Getty Images, (n) Photodisc/SuperStock, (o) Photographers Choice RF/SuperStock, (p) Photo Spin/Getty Images, (q) Joshua Ets-Hokin/Getty Images, (r) Jupiterimages/Brand X/Corbis, (s) Jeremy Woodhouse/Getty Images, (t) Ingram Publishing/Alamy, (u) Stockbyte/Getty Images, (v) Tui De Roy/Minden Pictures, (w) Photodisc/Getty Images, (x) C Squared Studios/Getty Images, (y) D. Hurst/Alamy, (z) Image State/Alamy. 15: (l) Stockbyte/Punchstock; ® BananaStock/Punchstock. 16: (r) Scholastic Studio 10/Index Stock Imagery.

Pre-Decodable ReadersWeek 1 Week 2 Week 3

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Respond to the Big Book: Animals in the Park: An ABC BookName the animal characters. Then draw another animal from the story.

At Home:

Ask your child to name each animal and the animal he or she drew.

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I .I .I .

High-Frequency Word: IRead the sentence: I run.Read the sentence: I read.Read the sentence: I eat.

At Home:

Ask your child to read the sentences aloud.

run

read

eat

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At Home: Ask your child to identify each pair of letters.

Letter Recognition: Aa - Dd Name each letter. Draw a line to connect the capital and lowercase forms of the same letter.

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Letter Recognition: Ee - Hh Name each letter. Draw a line to connect the capital and lowercase forms of the same letter.

E e

G

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H h

F

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Name

Respond to the Big Book: Hands CanTell what action the children in the pictures are doing with their hands. Draw a picture that shows another action you can do with your hands.

At Home:

Ask your child to tell you about each picture using action words.


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I can .I can .I can .

High-Frequency Word: canRead the sentence: I can run.Read the sentence: I can read.Read the sentence: I can eat.

At Home:


run

read

eat


Name

Letter Recognition: Ii - Nn Name each letter. Draw a line to connect the capital and lowercase forms of the same letter.


I i j

M m

J K k

L l N n




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Letter Recognition: Oo - Rr Name each letter. Draw a line to connect the capital and lowercase forms of the same letter.

O o

Q

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Name

Respond to the Big Book: Jazz BabyTalk about what you see the characters doing. Color the piano red. Color the drums yellow. Color the horn blue.

At Home: Ask your child to point to and name each musical instrument.

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High-Frequency Words: I, canRead the sentence: I can eat.Read the sentence: I can brush.Read the sentence: I can sleep.

At Home:


I can .I can .I can .

eat

brush

sleep


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Letter Recognition: Ss - Xx Name each letter. Draw a line to connect the capital and lowercase forms of the same letter.

S s

v

T t

V X xW w

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Letter Recognition: Yy - Zz Name each letter. Draw a line to connect the capital and lowercase forms of the same letter.


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I can sleep .

I can eat

.High-Frequency Words: I, can Point to the title page first. Then, read the book aloud to a partner.

Take Home Book:

Ask your child to read the book aloud to you.

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I can brush

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