Boat, snow, bowl, road — the long O sound.
Plus a few words readers learn by heart: a, the, has, in, on, and, to, is.
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Grandpa ties a rope to [NAME]'s little boat and they walk up the road to the pond. A toad hops aboard, a crow lands on the mast and the rope slips: the boat drifts off with the toad as captain. [NAME] and Grandpa blow and blow until the wind brings it back.
10 pages · uses: boat, nose, road, coat, rope, toad, crow, stone · with Grandpa
A goat trots up the road and helps itself to [NAME]'s toast, tugs the bow off [NAME]'s coat and gets a road cone stuck on its nose. It will not go home, so [NAME] fetches a rope and leads it up the road to its gate, and ties the bow on the goat to say goodbye.
10 pages · uses: nose, road, coat, goat, rope, cone, toast, bow
Snow! [NAME] and Sis build a snowman that grows as tall as Sis, with stones for a smile and a pine cone for a nose. A crow steals the nose, [NAME] is sad, and Sis finds a big stone for a new one. Then in for toast on the stove.
10 pages · uses: nose, coat, snow, cone, stove, crow, stone, toast, grow · with Sis
[NAME] and Gran make toast on the stove, but the phone rings and Gran chats and chats. [NAME]'s nose smells smoke: the toast is black and as hard as a stone. A crow at the window is happy to take it, and Gran makes a fresh batch with jam.
10 pages · uses: nose, bowl, stove, crow, phone, stone, toast, grow · with Gran
[NAME] lifts a stone in the garden and a toad hops out and into the house: onto the dog's bone, the dog's nose, [NAME]'s pillow, the globe, the phone, and finally into [NAME]'s bowl of milk. [NAME] carries it back to its stone, where it settles down for a nap.
10 pages · uses: bone, nose, bowl, toad, globe, phone, stone, pillow
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