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Reading Rods® Readers

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Vowel Patterns
The interactive way to build strong reading skills!
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★ Unique, effective, and fun manipulative-based reading instruction.
★ Leveled readers progress from simple phonetic skills to more complex skills.
★ Stories and illustrations capture and hold children’s imagination.
★ Engaging, interactive activities in every book help children learn to:
•Identify the focus sound or sounds
•Master sight words
•Spell focus words
•Build new words with the focus sound or sounds
ail •Create simple sentences
•Learn about language
•Increase reading comprehension
. ★ Pre-reading and follow-up activities allow for easy and immediate assessment.
★ Plus! Beginning readers will enjoy finding hidden pictures in each book!

From the first Reading Rods® Reader to the last, children will be engaged and
excited about learning to read!
Written by: Mary Beth Spann
Consultant: Elizabeth Sycamore
Edited by: Alison Rooney
Illustrated by: Patrick Merrell
Designed by: Dave Metzger and Jeff Belda

Little Snail
Printed in China.
The Reading Rods® teaching method is covered

On Sunday Snail crawls

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back into his old paint pail.

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Into the pail without a peep,

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This is Little Snail. He is sad today. Slippery-slow, slippery-slop.

Follow the slimy trail—don’t stop.
Up the trail without a peep, to
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Little Snail’s house to go to sleep. 15

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On Saturday Little Snail His best friend Jay has moved away.
crawls up the dusty trail.

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On Monday Little Snail crawls Slippery-slow, slippery-slop.

out of his old paint pail. Follow the slimy trail—don’t stop.
Over the tracks without a peep,
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On Friday Little Snail Slippery-slow, slippery-slop.

heads back, past the train. Making a slimy trail—don’t stop.
Over the fields so far away, to
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Jay’s new house to sing and play.
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On Tuesday Little Snail Let’s slip and slide. Let’s flip

crawls down a dusty trail. and fly. Let’s play in the hay.
Let’s paint some clay.
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On Thursday Little Snail Slippery-slow, slippery-slop.

plays all day with Jay. Making a slimy trail—don’t stop.
Over the fields so far away, to
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Jay’s new house to sing and play.
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On Wednesday Little Snail Slippery-slow, slippery-slop.

crawls by a train. Making a slimy trail—don’t stop.
Over the fields so far away, to
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