Sprouting Seeds

Decodable Poems for Growing Readers

Emily Gibbons

Pages 110
Format 8½" x 11¼" paperback
Product Code 9781970146424 ( MR #069611 )

Price $29.99

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Sprouting Seeds is a collection of phonics poems to support children as they strengthen their decoding skills. The poems support a systematic and structured approach to teaching reading. They may be used to supplement structured literacy lessons and reading intervention programs.

There are five levels included in this book.

Below is the OG based scope and sequence for the poems included in the book.

Level One

Cat And A Rat short a

Big Dig short i

Pop The Top short o

Gum Fun short u

Get The Pet short e

Meg And Cub short vowels

A Thin Path th digraph (voiced and invoiced)

Chop And Chat ch digraph

Shag, The Big Pup sh digraph

Which And When wh digraph

Hush, Cat digraphs

Snip, Snap initial s blends

The Class Pet initial l blends

The Frog initial r blends

Prim And Stan initial blends

Band Champ final m and n blends

A Craft final t blends

A Ship At Dusk final s blends

The Elf Craft final l blends

At The Pond final blends

Black Bag ck digraph

In The Grass FSZL rule

Scruff 3-letter initial blends

Cake Shape VCe-a

Is It Time Yet VCe-i

Drone Trip VCe-o

Game Cube VCe-u

Pen Pals VCe-e

Abe Is Mine VCe

Goblin Contest VC/CV

It Is Bedtime VC/C VCe

Level Two

Stop And Go monosyllable

A Fly On My Cake y as long i

Candy Bag y as long e

Mick’s Black Desk k/ck

A Sad Witch ch/tch

I Will Not Mind closed syllable exceptions

Cling Clang -ng

Skunk and Mink -nk

Rain Is Back ai

What A Day ay

Meet Me On Tree Street ee

Dream Team ea

Coax Or Hoax oa

Sloppy Joes oe

My Shadow ow (snow)

Downtown Crowd ow (plow)

Couch To Mound ou (ouch)

A Day In Class suffix -ed (3 sounds)

Ashley And Charley ey (valley)

Cartoon By Noon oo (food and cook)

In The Wild plurals

Stormy Boris or /or/

Smart Bart ar /ar/

What If er /er/

Deep In The Fir Tree ir /ir/

Hunt To Survive ur /ur/

On The Way To Flagstaff compound words

P.E. Class doubling rule

Foxes suffix -es

Level Three

A Rare Coin oi

Coy Roy oy

Mudpies ie (long i and long e)

A Haunted Trip au

Dawn Can Draw aw

Night Flight igh

Baby Venus open syllables

Sleepyhead Bear ea (short e, long a, and /air/)

Summer Destination tion /shun/

Zombie Invasion sion /shun/, /zhun/

Wilma And Kenya schwa a

A Chance To Dance soft c

Gem Theft soft g

Tasting Freedom e-drop

Level Four

I Stumble Over Words consonant+le

Happiness y rule

The Chew Crew ew

Ceiling Illusion ei long e

Things That Come In Eights eigh

Rescue Shelter ue long u

Zeus eu /oo/

Fruit Juice Truck ui

Level Five

Knight Versus Rhino initial silent letters

Tavern Feast silent medial letters

In A Jam silent final letters

Fun Costume schwa vowels

Staycation ar /er/

Choose An Occupation or /er/

Pearl Heard A Noise ear /er/