CVC Story 13 for Beginner Readers:
The Rag Bat Cat

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I am excited to bring you the next CVC phonics story! I am so happy to see how many people have been enjoying them too. This next book in the series focuses on a new word family: the -ag word family. If your learners need to learn this word family, check out my FREE phonics booklets here!

As with all my CVC stories, this one has a fun story, comprehension questions, a mini literacy lesson and more!

Why Practice Literacy Skills While Learning to Read?

A question I often is hear people ask is why practice literacy and language skills while learning to read, instead of just letting kids focus on reading? While your learners could certainly learn to read words without learning literacy and language skills, the magic of these lessons comes when they realize that what they're reading is more than just words. It's a whole story!

Studies done over many years in what we now cal The Science of Reading show that children need more than just traditional phonics instruction to become strong readers. While learning how letter sounds can fit together to form words, vocabulary, listening comprehension, oral language, and understanding stories play important roles too. These mini lessons help children understand what they're reading by building background knowledge about language and stories. This helps them become more confident readers in the future.

Take your time!

While kids might want to rush through the story to show off their newly formed reading skills, take the time to go over each page or every few pages with them. You could point out concepts like sentences and names beginning with capital letters, sentences ending with periods, or question marks. You could ask questions such as "What did the cat just do in the story?" that are simple but help kids remember that the words they're reading form a story.

Mini Lessons Build on Each Other

The mini grammar and literacy lessons I include in these booklets build on previous lessons in other CVC stories. So even if you don't want to use the previous stories, I do suggest going through the lessons in them first to be sure your learner has the background knowledge they need.

Learning to read is such an important skill to develop early on, and I hope these books and lessons will help you develop strong, confident readers!

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