The Jumping Contest

Phonics School & Home JumpinTgheContest Focus: Adjacent consonants and short vowel sounds



Phonics School & Home The Jumping Contest

The Jumping Contest 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 Catherine Baker Editorial team Rachel Morgan, Vicki Yates, Abbie Rushton, Liz Evans Design team Dipa Mistry, Justin Hoffmann, Andrea Lewis, We Are Grace Illustrations Csilla Köszeghy/Astound Scholastic ebook edition 9781443076876 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 words with more than one consonant next to each other, plus short vowel sounds (like ‘best’ or ‘stuck’). Read these words with your students: jumping cricket frog spring Your students may need help reading these common tricky words: go the of I said no he be have she to Before reading • Look at the cover picture and read the title together. Read the back cover blurb to your students. • Ask: Can you point to the cricket, the frog, and the rabbit on the cover? A cricket is like a grasshopper. Which one do you think would be best at jumping? 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: s-p-r-i-ng, spring. • 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: Were you surprised that the rabbit won the contest? Why? • Ask: Do you think this story has a message? What might it be? (For example: ‘Don’t be boastful; Try your best.’) Can you spot the chameleon on 6 pages? 3

The queen of the forest held a jumping contest. 4

“I will win!” said the cricket. “I can spring up high!” 5

“No, I will win,” said the frog. 6

“I can jump the highest!” he added. 7

“I might not be the best,” said the rabbit. 8

I will have a go! 9

The cricket sprang too high! She got stuck. 10

She did not win. 11

The frog jumped… and flopped! He landed next to the queen. 12

He did not win. 13

The rabbit did her best jump. The queen got a shock! 14

“The rabbit is the best!” said the queen. 15

Retell the story 16



Phonics Focus: Adjacent School & Home consonants and short T he vowel sounds Jumping Contest Decodable with written by Catherine Baker tricky words illustrated by Csilla Köszeghy School & Home Set 7 The queen of the forest is holding a jumping contest. Who will win? Other titles in Set 7: Practise: adjacent consonants and short vowel sounds Move to Set 8: Practise: adjacent consonants and long vowel sounds