The Little Red Hen R-Controlled Vowels Decodable Reader & Worksheets

Item description

Do your students need practice with r-controlled vowels? How about comprehension skills? This is a decodable reader that tells the story of the Little Red Hen. It focuses on fluency, phonics, and comprehension and includes companion activities for additional practice with r-controlled vowels.

This resource includes:

• 20-page decodable reader

• Pictures to glue into the reader

• 2 differentiated worksheets

• 10 word/picture cards

• Answer keys

DECODABLE READER

To complete the book, students will:

• Read a list a sight words found in the story, checking off the ones they know

• Read the target letters/sounds (ar, er, ir, or, ur)

• Read the story

• Highlight words in the story with the target phonics pattern

• Add pictures to the story that support the text (cut and glue)

• Re-read the story to build fluency

• Answer comprehension questions about the story

• Record the words they highlighted, sorting by phonics pattern

Skills include:

• reading words with r-controlled vowels in context and isolation

• identifying character traits

• sequencing story events

• identifying cause and effect

WORD CARDS

Each card includes a picture and a word from the book that contains an r-controlled vowel. The word has elkonin boxes in place of the vowel and R. Students say the word and determine which r-controlled vowel completes it. These cards can be laminated and used with dry erase markers.

WORKSHEETS

On both worksheets, students read and sort words containing r-controlled vowels. The first worksheet includes an easier set of words than the second one. This lets you differentiate for students of different reading abilities. It also gives students a more challenging set to work with after successfully completing the first worksheet.