Kite, bike, hike, night — the long I sound.
Plus a few words readers learn by heart: a, the, has, in, on, and, to, is.
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[NAME] has a new kite with a red stripe, but at the park there is no wind at all. [NAME] runs and runs until a gust lifts the kite high, then a bigger gust dives it into a vine. Dad lifts [NAME] up to tug it free, and the kite flies right up again.
10 pages · uses: kite, fly, tie, vine, cry, stripe, right, smile · with Dad
[NAME]'s striped bike has a light, and today [NAME] is riding all the way to the slide. The bike tips into the mud and a cry is coming, until the dog licks the mud off [NAME]'s chin. Back on, right, left, right, left, all the way to the slide.
10 pages · uses: bike, slide, light, tie, cry, stripe, right, smile
At Gran's house the night light clicks off and the bedroom goes dark. A shape looms on the wall: a bat? A bug? [NAME] calls out, and Gran arrives with a lamp: it was only the cat. A kite shadow on the wall, the plug pushed back in, and night, night.
10 pages · uses: kite, fly, slide, night, light, cry, right, smile · with Gran
[NAME] packs a slice of pie and a lime and hikes up the hill with the dog. They creep past a hive on a vine, picnic on the rock at the top, and the dog finds out what a lime tastes like. Back at sunset, asleep and smiling.
10 pages · uses: fly, hive, night, pie, hike, lime, vine, stripe, smile
Game night: Sis has the dice and the prize is a giant striped tie. Sis shakes a six, [NAME] shakes a one, and tears are close. Then the cat leaps in, the dice fly, and they land on six and six. [NAME] wins, and the cat gets the tie.
10 pages · uses: fly, night, tie, dice, cry, stripe, smile, prize · with Sis
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