Short A | Kim’s Surprise Story
Phonics Focus
- Short a Sound
- Digraph CK
1-no-group
1
Read Aloud Book
Build Listening Comprehension
Familiarize your readers with the characters, settings, and events that they will encounter in the Student Book.
![Read Aloud Book](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Who-Came-Along-for-the-Ride-Read-Aloud.010-e1636487323882.jpeg)
2
Sounds in Words
Words Are Made of Sounds
What’s My Word?
Change My Word
My Fast Words
Prepare to Read
Foster skills for decoding and sight word recognition to apply in the Student Book.
![Sounds in Words](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Sounds-in-Words.001-copy-1-e1636487816780.jpeg)
![Words Are Made of Sounds](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/WAMS.001-copy-e1636488056519.jpeg)
![What’s My Word?](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Whats-My-Word.001-copy-e1636488362561.jpeg)
![Change My Word](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Word-Chain.001-copy-e1636488557782.jpeg)
![My Fast Words](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/My-Fast-Words.001-copy-e1636488727511.jpeg)
3
Cover Detectives
Read on My Own
Give Feedback: 1st Read
Focus on accuracy of reading the words in the text.
![Cover Detectives](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Cover-Detectives.001-copy-e1636488883989.jpeg)
![Read on My Own](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/What-Ran-in-Kims-Bag-Phase-2.011-copy-e1636488976182.jpeg)
4
Reread Together
Let’s Talk about It
Tell Me What Happened
Develop Meaning: 2nd & 3rd Read
Support fluency and comprehension.
![Reread Together](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/First-Read-Book-Cover.001-copy-e1636489176643.jpeg)
![Let’s Talk about It](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Text-Dependent-Questions.001-copy-e1636489364588.jpeg)
![Tell Me What Happened](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Tell-Me-What-Happened.001-copy-e1636489679610.jpeg)
5
Cloze My Sentence
Sentence Smash
Talk Like a Teacher
Support Language
Reinforce sentence structure, grammar, and academic language.
![Cloze My Sentence](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Cloze-My-Sentence.001-copy-e1636489828533.jpeg)
![Sentence Smash](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Sentence-Smash.001-copy-e1636489988221.jpeg)
![Talk Like a Teacher](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Academic-Language.001-copy-e1636490168345.jpeg)
6
My CK Words
Practice Word Fluency
Practice reading more words to build fluency and automaticity.
![My CK Words](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Word-Fluency-Practice-CK.001-copy-e1639497675829.jpeg)
7
Show off What You Know
Assessment
Monitor your readers’ word recognition skills to determine next steps.
![Show off What You Know](https://wordscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Assessment.001n-copy-e1639498360669.jpeg)