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Home Activity Ask your child to show you how to write each letter.

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Write

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Directions: Have children write a row of each letter.

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Home Activity: Have your child trace the letters and name the circled letters.

Directions: In each row, circle the letters that match the letter or letters in the box.

26 Letter Recognition Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss

Circle

Oo O N o a I e O o

Pp O p b P d P p N

Qq O Q q g H Q j q

Rr P r R Q R n r P

Ss S L S n s R o s

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4 1Decodable Story Little Me!Letter Recognition Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss

Little Me!

Am I the l i t t le ot ter?

I am the l i t t le ot ter.

I am the l i t t le rabbi t .

Am I the l i t t le sea l?

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Am I the l i t t le p ig?

I am the l i t t le p ig.

Am I the l i t t le quai l?

I am the l i t t le quai l .

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Directions: Read each sentence. Write the missing word to finish the sentence. Color the picture.

Home Activity: Have your child use the and little in other sentences.

Write  Color

the        little

The girl is   .  dog is little.

cat is little.  The pig is   .

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30 Conventions What We Look Like

Directions: Draw a picture to show how Plaidypus looks at the beginning of the story and how he looks at the end of the story.

Home Activity: Show pictures to your child and have him or her tell how the people in the pictures look.

Draw

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Home Activity: Have your child trace the letters and name the circled letters.

Directions In each row, circle the letters that match the letter or letters in the box.

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Circle

Q Q O C Q

q p q q d

C Q Q O o q d q

R R P B R

r r n r c

P R D R n r r o

S S M C S

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C S S Q s o s c

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32 Comprehension Sequence

 Number

Directions: Number the pictures to show what happens first, next, and last.

Home Activity: Have your child make up a story using the pictures to tell what happens first, next, and last.

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Home Activity Ask your child to name the people and tell you about each one.

Directions Draw a picture of yourself and a picture of someone you know. Write your name and write or dictate the other person’s name under the pictures.

Draw  Write

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Home Activity Have your child read the poem and describe the item that he or she drew that goes fast and slow.

Directions Copy the lines from the board. Then draw a picture that tells about something you know that goes fast and slow.

34 Writing Poem

Write  Draw

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Color

Directions: Color the pictures that show settings for stories.

Home Activity: Ask your child to describe what he or she might do in the settings he or she colored.

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Home Activity Ask your child to tell about each picture and to describe the way he or she looks at each place.

36 Conventions What We Look Like

Directions Draw pictures to show what you look like when you are at school and at the pool.

Draw

AtSchool AtthePool

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