Language and Literacy

Read on Your Own

Focus on Genre

Realistic Fiction Realistic fiction is a story that is not true. Events in the story could happen in real life, but they did not.

Focus on Words

Short a and Short o When you read and come to a word you don’t know, blend the sounds together to read it. You just learned about words with short a and short o.

Illustration of a map with a hand pointing to the “a” in the word “map” below it Illustration of a map with a dot on it and a hand pointing to the “o” in the word “dot” below it

High Frequency Words Say these words as whole words when you read.

fromhome
newgo
theremany
firstnext
thenone

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This is Lupe.

This is Lupe.