Six Chicks

Phonics CShiicxk sSchool & Home Focus: ch sh th ng



Phonics School & Home Six Chicks

Six Chicks 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 Helen Betts Editorial team Rachel Morgan, Tracy Kewley, Liz Evans Design team Dipa Mistry, We Are Grace Illustrations Susana Gurrea Scholastic ebook edition 9781443076753 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: ch sh th ng Your students may need help reading these common tricky words: we the is I Before reading • Look at the cover picture and read the title together. Read the back cover blurb to your students. • Ask: What do you think will happen in this story? 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: ch-i-ck, chick. • 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: Why did the boy want to keep checking the chicks? (to see if more had hatched) • Ask: How did the boy feel at the end? Would it be fun to have hens and chicks? Can you spot the duck on 6 pages? 3

Shall we check the hens? Yes! 4

A chick! 5

This is long! 6

Then we check the chicks. A wing! 7

I shut the pen. 8

Then we check the chicks. 9

Mom chops the logs. 10

Can we check the hens? honk 11

I wish we had six chicks. 12

The shell is off! 13

The hut is full of chicks! 14

Six chicks! 15

Retell the story 16



Phonics Focus sounds: School & Home ch sh th ng Six Chick s Decodable with tricky words written by Helen Betts illustrated by Susana Gurrea School & Home Set 4 A boy is excited when the chicks start to hatch. Will there be six chicks? Other titles in Set 4: Practise these sounds: qu ch sh th ng nk Move to Set 5: Practise these sounds: ai ee igh oa oo oo