My Fort

Phonics My FortSchool & Home Focus: ar or air er



Phonics School & Home My Fort

My Fort This edition copyright © 2022 Scholastic Canada Ltd. 175 Hillmount Road, Markham, Ontario, Canada, L6C 1Z7 First published in the UK by Scholastic Education in 2021. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, scanning, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the publisher or a license from The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). For an Access Copyright license, call toll free to 1-800-893-5777. Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders for the works reproduced in this publication, and the publishers apologize for any inadvertent omissions. Author Becca Heddle Editorial team Rachel Morgan, Vicki Yates, Tracy Kewley, Jennie Clifford Design team Dipa Mistry, Justin Hoffmann, Andrea Lewis, We Are Grace Illustrations Joel and Ashley Selby/Astound Scholastic ebook edition 9781443076807 Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrightable materials. Your support is appreciated.

Help your students read! This book practises these letters and letter sounds. Point and say the sounds with your students: ar or air er Your students may need help reading these common tricky words: I and pull into the my put you Before reading • Look at the cover picture and read the title together. Read the back cover blurb to your students. • Ask: Have you built a den or fort in your house? What did you use? During reading • If your students get stuck on a word, remind them to sound it out and then blend the sounds to read the word: p-er-ch, perch. • If they are still stuck, show them how to read the word. • Enjoy looking at the pictures together. Pause to talk about the story. After reading • Ask: Did the child build the fort outdoors? Why not? Who would you like to join you in a homemade fort? Can you spot the parrot on 6 pages? 3

I need a fort. I perch on a chair and think… 4

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Can I pull things into the garden? 6

That is too hard. 7

I will keep my fort in this room. 8

I get the airer. 9

I put a sheet on the airer and chair. 10

I get into my lair. 11

I lurk in my den. I hear feet. Is it Mom? 12

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It is! Can I join you? 14

This is a good fort! 15

Retell the story 16



Phonics Focus: School & Home ar or air er My Fort Decodable with tricky words written by Becca Heddle illustrated by Joel and Ashley Selby School & Home Set 6 A boy builds a fort in his house. Will it be as good as he imagines? Other titles in Set 6: Practise these sounds: ar or ur ow oi ear air er Move to Set 7: Practise adjacent consonants and short vowel sounds