Skate on the Lake

Colorful Illustrations support decodable text, guiding beginning readers to identify, recognize, and use the long /a/ sound. Featuring high-frequency words, this authentic fictional narrative also gives emerging readers the opportunity to read with purpose and for meaning while reinforcing basic phonemic sounds. Readers will follow as a family spends a day ice skating on a frozen lake. This fiction phonics title is paired with the nonfiction phonics title Cakes: Practicing the Long A Sound. The instructional guide on the inside front and back covers provides: * Word List with carefully selected grade-appropriate words featuring the long /a/ sound found in the text* Teacher Talk that assists instructors in introducing the long /a/ sound* Group Activity that guides students to identify the long /a/ 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 long /a/ sound* Writing Activity that guides students to write the letters that make the long /a/ sound