Cake, lake, rain, play — the long A sound.
Plus a few words readers learn by heart: a, the, has, in, on, and, to, is.
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It is raining, so [NAME] and Mom bake a cake for Gran: mixed, plated, put on a tray and topped with six grapes. Then a wet dog bounds in, sprays the kitchen and wags its tail right into the cake. [NAME] fills the dent with grapes, and when Gran arrives it is the best cake ever.
10 pages · uses: cake, rain, tray, grape, plate, tail, wave, spray · with Mom and Gran
[NAME] waits at the gate for the mail, but today the mail is coming by snail, and the snail is not fast. [NAME] plays, snacks and gets rained on, then puts the snail on the toy train for a speedy finish. The parcel turns out to be an empty picture frame, so [NAME] frames the snail.
10 pages · uses: cake, rain, train, play, grape, snail, mail, frame
[NAME] makes a long clay snake, a snail and a cake on a plate, and lines them up on a tray. Then the cat jumps on the tray and squashes the lot. [NAME] has a plan: the flat snake becomes the tail of a brand-new clay cat, and the real cat approves.
10 pages · uses: cake, play, tray, snake, plate, snail, tail, clay
[NAME] and Dad take the train to the lake for a picnic: waves, cake on a plate, grapes on a tray. Then rain drips on the cake and they run into a cave, where a scary snake turns out to be a snail. The rain stops, a crane makes off with the soggy cake, and [NAME] naps on Dad's lap on the train home.
10 pages · uses: cake, lake, rain, train, play, tray, snake, grape, plate, snail, wave, cave, crane · with Dad
[NAME] has big red skates and skates up the lane with the dog, waving at a snake and chugging like a train. Then the rain comes, [NAME] cannot stop, and lands in a puddle with a splash. The dog shakes spray everywhere, [NAME] grins, and the two of them play in the rain.
10 pages · uses: rain, train, play, snake, tail, wave, skate, spray
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