April's Big Day
Mystery (fiction),
523 words,
Read-Aloud
April invites several friends to her birthday party. However, a large dog shows up with one of her friends, and April is worried that the dog will hurt her new kitten. When the party is interrupted by a storm, April’s kitten is nowhere to be found. It is the uninvited guest that saves the day by rescuing the kitten.
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Objectives
- Introduce and expose students to the long /a/ vowel sound represented by VCe long /a/ and long /a/ vowel digraph spellings.
- Build oral comprehension skills.
- Model fluent reading.
