Colorful Illustrations support decodable text, guiding beginning readers to identify, recognize, and use the short /o/ sound. Featuring high-frequency words, this authentic fictional narrative also gives emerging readers the opportunity to read with purpose and for meaning while reinforcing basic phonemic sounds. Readers will a narrator as they try to finish a race with a rock in their sock. This fiction phonics title is paired with the nonfiction phonics title A Job in a Shop: Practicing the Short O Sound.
The instructional guide on the inside front and back covers provides: * Word List with carefully selected grade-appropriate words featuring the short /o/ sound found in the text * Teacher Talk that assists instructors in introducing the short /o/ sound * Group Activity that guides students to identify the short /o/ sound, decode the words that contain it, and use the words * Extended Activity that provides students with additional opportunities to think about, list, and use words containing the short /o/ sound * Writing Activity that guides students to write the letter that makes the short /o/ sound
