Language and Literacy

Read on Your Own

Focus on Genre

Newspaper Article A newspaper article is written to include facts about a person or an event. This article is about a woman who works with animals.

Focus on Words

Words with Short and Long Vowels When you read and come to a word you don’t know, blend the sounds together to read it.

A vowel at the end of a word usually means that the vowel has a long sound. A vowel followed by one or more consonants usually has a short sound. You just learned about words with short and long vowels. You also learned about words with more than one syllable.

Photograph of a boy with the word “he” below. A finger points to the “e” in “he.” Photograph of a sock with the word “sock” below. A finger points to the “o” in “sock.”
mattress

mattress

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

cityabove
bysometimes
hercome
animalspeople
downunder

Meet Jo

THE DAILY TIMES

Photograph of title page, “City People”
Jo is brushing Velvet the rabbit.

Jo is brushing Velvet the rabbit.

Photograph of grass and a blue sky with clouds