Provide your students with the targeted phonics skills practice they need to become successful readers! uses engaging stories and activities rich with spelling/sound patterns and sight words frequently used in reading texts to help students develop fluency and decoding skills. A simple explanation of the specific phonics skills, words to read aloud, and a quick activity present concepts in an easy-to-follow format. Students build on what they've learned by completing a crossword puzzle, solving a riddle, or playing a word game. A cloze activity presented in a test format reinforces the targeted skills and provides an opportunity for assessment. An engaging illustrated story provides a meaningful opportunity to read words with the targeted skills in context. Following the story, students apply their knowledge by answering comprehension and critical thinking questions and completing an oral reading activity. Students' ability to read high-frequency words quickly and accurately is critical to reading with ease and confidence. The 240 high-frequency words used in are compiled from the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary and Fry's Instant Words lists. Provide your students with focused and repeated practice with these critical words using the and This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only. A leader in PreK–8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.