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Bright, colorful photos support decodable text, guiding beginning readers to identify, recognize, and use the /y/ sound. Featuring high-frequency words, this authentic nonfiction text also gives emerging readers the opportunity to read for information while reinforcing basic phonemic sounds. Readers will follow a narrator as they help their family with a yard sale. This nonfiction phonics title is paired with the fiction phonics title Yummy and Yucky: Practicing the Y Sound.The...
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Bright, colorful photos support decodable text, guiding beginning readers to identify, recognize, and use the /y/ sound. Featuring high-frequency words, this authentic nonfiction text also gives emerging readers the opportunity to read for information while reinforcing basic phonemic sounds. Readers will follow a narrator as they help their family with a yard sale. This nonfiction phonics title is paired with the fiction phonics title Yummy and Yucky: Practicing the Y Sound.The instructional guide on the inside front and back covers provides: * Word List with carefully selected grade-appropriate words featuring the /y/ sound found in the text* Teacher Talk that assists instructors in introducing the /y/ sound* Group Activity that guides students to identify the /y/ sound, decode the words that contain it, and use the words* Extended Activity that provides students with additional opportunities to think about, list, and use words containing the /y/ sound* Writing Activity that guides students to write the letter that makes the /y/ sound