By Cheryl Rose CampbellIllustrated by Robert Hay

The Sun

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Sunshine Series This series of five books was written to develop the youngreader’s ability to decode simple closed syllables with shortvowels in connected and meaningful non-fiction text. Itreflects the mission of the CR Success Readers:

• To provide lively, engaging stories that capture theinterest of readers and promote a love of reading.

• To present books that are decodable, based on thereader’s developing knowledge of phonetic concepts.

• To advance the literacy abilities of students in ahighly sequential manner.

Sunshine SeriesBook 1

The SunBy Cheryl Rose Campbell

Illustrated by Robert Hay

This book is dedicated to…

Brian and Kelly, who make my world magical.

— Cheryl Rose Campbell

Author Biography

As a classroom teacher and literacy coach, CherylRose Campbell has taught young children to read for many years. Currently, she is the President of CR Success Learning, LLC. She is working on creatinghigh-interest, decodable books for struggling readers,as well as professional tools for reading teachers andspecialists. Books, stories, and the magical world ofreading have been, and will always be, important inher life. She lives in Denver, Colorado, with herhusband Brian.

Table of Contents

What Is the Sun? . . . . . . . . . 6

The Sun Is Very Big . . . . . . . . 8

The Planets and the Sun. . . 11

We Must Have the Sun . . . . 13

Liz’s Song. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Word Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

More to Know . . . . . . . . . . . 20

5

Jim said, “Let’s learn

about the sun.”

6

The sun is a star.

What Is the Sun?

7

It is a mass of hot gas.

8

The sun can look small.

The Sun Is Very Big

9

It is far away. This makes

the sun look small.

10

But the sun is very big.

11

The Earth goes

around the sun. All the

planets go around the sun.

The Planets and the Sun

12

We can not see the sun

all the time. But the sun is

always there.

13

We Must Have the Sun

The sun is very hot. We

can not live on the sun. But

we must have the sun to live.

14

The sun gives off heat.

It gives off light.

It gives off energy.

15

We must have its heat. We

must have its light. We

must have its energy.

16

17

Liz said, “I have a song

about the sun!”

The Earth has a golden sun,

A golden sun,

A golden sun,

The Earth has a golden sun,

For heat, light, and energy.

(To the tune of Mary Has a

Little Lamb)

Liz’s Song

18

Simple Closed Syllables

Advanced Closed Syllables

Review T.R.I.C.K.y Words

big

but

can

gas

give

have

hot

is

Jim

let

live

not

on

sun

all

its

gold

mass

must

off

small

song

about

away

for

go

look

of

said

see

the

to

very

we

T.R.I.C.K.y Words

always

around

far

goes

learn

what

there

time

19

Glossary

Earth: the planet we live on

energy: power from the sun

heat: being hot

light: brightness

planet: round mass that circles a sun

star: mass of burning gas

20

More to Know

What Is the Sun?The sun is a medium-sized star that is 4.5 billionyears old. It is 75% hydrogen and 25% helium.

The Size of the SunIf you hollowed out the sun, you could put 1million Earths in it. It is 93,000,000 miles from theEarth. The light from the sun travels very fast. Ittakes only 8 minutes to reach the Earth.

The Planets and the SunThere are eight planets in our solar system:Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto was considered aplanet until 2006. Our knowledge of space is stillgrowing.

We Must Have the SunIf we did not have the sun, the earth would befrozen and dark.

Sunshine Series

Book 1 The Sun

Book 2 Day and Night

Book 3 Seasons

Book 4 The Water Cycle

Book 5 To Grow a Plant

The Earth needs the sun. Butwhat is it? A source of heat andlight? Jim and Liz learn aboutthat most important star.

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