Phonics CVC Story 5: The Man Ran

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It's time for another CVC Story unit 🥳 This is booklet number 5, and the second book in the -AN word family series! In this story, your learners will explore -an words, sight words, and learn some new grammar and literacy concepts!

My CVC stories go beyond simple sounding out words. They include comprehension activities and questions, activities focused on literacy concepts like making connections, and even simple grammar lessons for beginner readers! Letting your kids practice reading these stories and doing these activities will not only help them learn to read, it will help prepare them for elementary-level learning.

What's Included in a CVC Phonics Story?

Inside each story unit you'll find:

• A story focusing on word families and sight words
• Spiral learning of previously learned phonics rules and words
• A simple grammar activity: In this booklet? Teach your learners all about the exclamation point!
• A 'Making Connections' activity
• Comprehension Questions to help learners understand what they are reading
• A Drawing Comprehension activity

All of these lessons and activities will help your learner realize that sounding out words is more than just busy school work, it's a way to help them express themselves and read stories, learn about new worlds and concepts, and even laugh at some silly texts (The cat ran on the man!' in this story is always a hit!)

Comprehension Activities Build Literacy Skills

When we show kids that reading is about more than words on a page, it helps bring home the fact that words and sentences can be made into stories or books. It's exciting! Once they know how to read AND understand a story, it's a whole new way to explore the world around them. Not only do the connections in their minds fire up at the thought that books are stories and a way to learn, but that reading and learning is all around them. Words on a restaurant menu, words on street signs or supermarket signs, words on home appliances...the list goes on! All of a sudden they begin to notice that words make up our whole world! (And later units will explore this more with making text to world connections!)

Why Grammar?

When teaching younger kids to read, you may not think of including something like grammar right away. But showing kids how words and sentences work in a very simple way helps them understand their reading better. For example, in the first CVC story (the cat on the mat) kids learn that words can be put together to make sentences. It's a simple oral lesson and they can look through the book and point to all of the sentences they read. In the second CVC story, they learn that sentences end with a period and this means we take a small pause. They can then practice reading sentences and noticing the periods at the end of each. 

These simple concepts build on one another and even though our young learners might not memorize them perfectly at first, it will help them when they start more formal grammar lessons in the future. It will also be just another way to point out that reading is so much more than just words.

Download CVC Phonics Story 5!

You can download this story unit below by clicking on the link.

You may use it in your classroom, school, on your smartboard or in your homeschool. You can also use it in virtual classrooms or lessons, and it's great for tutoring too!

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Enjoy teaching our future readers!<3

Download CVC Story 5 Here!