Reading A-Z resources organized into weekly content-based units and differentiated instruction options.
Fantasy (fiction), 577 words, Read-Aloud
Tom finds a large egg and imagines that there must be a dinosaur inside. He hides the egg in his father's office and keeps it warm with socks. His concern about the task of caring for a dinosaur grows until the egg hatches to reveal an adorable baby ostrich.
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Read-Aloud Lesson
Introduce and expose students to the various vowel sounds represented by the letter o, including short /o/, diphthong /ou/, variant vowels /o/ and /oo/, r-controlled /o/, and long /o/ vowel pattern sounds.
Build oral comprehension skills.
Model fluent reading.
