Rainbow Snow

Phonics Rainbow SnowSchool & Home Focus: New spellings for known sounds



Phonics School & Home Rainbow Snow

Rainbow Snow 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 Alice Hemming Editorial team Rachel Morgan, Vicki Yates, Fiona Undrill, Jennie Clifford Design team Dipa Mistry, Justin Hoffmann, Andrea Lewis, We Are Grace Illustrations Noopur Thankur/Advocate Art Scholastic ebook edition 9781443077002 Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrightable materials. Your support is appreciated. Can you spot the meerkat on 10 pages?

Help your students read! This book practises these letters and letter sounds. Point and say the sounds with your students: y (as in ‘chilly’) wh (as in ‘white’) y (as in ‘my’) ow (as in ‘snow’) g (as in ‘magical’) le (as in ‘crumble’) al (as in ‘magical’) c (as in ‘icicle’) ve (as in ‘give’) o-e (as in ‘some’) o (as in ‘other’) se (as in ‘mouse’) ou (as in ‘soup’) Your students may need help reading these common tricky words: the their says pure would to they of are water where’s asks here what’s into our Before reading • Look at the cover picture and read the title together. Read the back cover blurb to your students. • Ask: Have you ever played in the snow? What did/would you do? 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-ou-p, soup. • 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: Do you think the snow looked better before or after the makeover? Why? What about the ice cream? 3

It’s December. Kyong looks outside. Icicles hang at the window. Snow lies thickly on their balcony and on houses below. 4

“I love snow!” says Kyong. “It’s magical,” agrees Daddy. “So pure and white!” 5

“It’s very chilly!” says Mommy. “It would be nice to have some lovely hot food for lunch.” 6

Daddy decides to make soup and fruit crumble. 7

Daddy leaves for the store. Mommy and Kyong decide to stay at home. 8

They get boots, snuggly coats, and gloves. Then they head out to the balcony. 9

Mommy moulds some snow in the middle of the balcony. “Let’s make a group of snowmen as a surprise for Daddy,” she says. 10

Kyong shakes his head. “Let’s make some other snow animals.” 11

Kyong makes an elephant on the table and a mouse in the window box. 12

“They are a bit too white,” says Kyong. “Snow is white!” says Mommy. “But it’s not magical,” says Kyong. 13

They decide to give the animals a makeover. Mommy gathers bottles of paint, a bowl of water, and a couple of brushes. 14

Mommy drizzles paint of every shade of the rainbow onto a plate. Then they decorate the snow. 15

Now they have a spotty yellow mouse, a stripy, purple elephant, and rainbow snowmen. 16

Kyong giggles. “Rainbow snow is really magical!” 17

Daddy comes home with fruit and vegetables. Kyong shows him the mouse, elephant, and snowmen. 18

Daddy chuckles. “Where’s my pure white snow?” he asks. 19

At lunchtime, the soup is steamy and comforting. Next is apple crumble with ice cream. “Please may I have ice cream on its own?” asks Kyong. 20

“Here you are,” says Daddy. “Pure white. Like snow.” 21

Kyong gets a little jar. “What’s that?” asks Daddy. Wait and see! 22

Kyong sprinkles a rainbow into the bowl. “Now it’s magical ice cream!” he exclaims. “Like our snow!” 23

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Phonics Focus: New spellings School & Home for known sounds Rainbow Snow Decodable with tricky words written by Alice Hemming School & Home Set 11 illustrated by Noopur Thankur One snowy day, Kyong and Mom paint snow creatures all the colours of the rainbow. Other titles in Set 11: Practise: new spellings for known sounds Move to Set 12: Practise: new spellings for known sounds