THE SUPERKIDS READING PROGRAM

FIRST G
RADE

More Adventures
of the
Superkids

UNIT
14
Word Work Book

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 T H E S U P E R K I D S R E A D I N G P R O G R A M

FIRST G
RA DE

More Adventures
of the
Superkids
BY

PL E A SA N T T. ROW L A N D

ILLUSTRATED BY

MERYL HENDERSON

DEVELOPED BY

ROW L A N D R EA DI NG FOU N DAT ION

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 Unit 14, Lesson 1
Name Phonemic Awareness and Phonics

oy
oi

Family: Your child underlined oi or oy in the words in the sentences on page 87, then wrote the number of each
86 sentence next to the part of the picture on page 86 that the sentence describes.

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 Unit 14, Lesson 1
Name Phonemic Awareness and Phonics

1. A bee may annoy you when you work outside.

2. She is digging in the soil.

3. See her point at her plants.

4. He has a small toy rake.

5. She has little foil packs of seeds.

6. He is coming to join the kids.

7. She keeps plants moist with a sprinkler.

8. The garden fills him with joy!

Family: Your child underlined oi or oy in the words in the sentences on page 87, then wrote the number of each
sentence next to the part of the picture on page 86 that the sentence describes. 87

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 Unit 14, Lesson 1
Name Phonics and Spelling

1. 2.
Spelling List
oy
Pattern Words
oi

oil
1. oil

l t 2. boil
3. soil
3. 4.

oin
4. coin
5. join

b p nt oint
6. point
5. 6. 7. joint

oy
8. joy
9. toy
c ns j 10. boy

Family: Your child traced the blue letters and wrote oi or oy to complete each word. Then he traced the letters in the
88 spelling list, read the words, and discussed the spelling patterns.

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 Unit 14, Lesson 2
Name Phonics and Spelling

Use oi in the middle. Use oy at the end. join joy

1. 2.

oi oy oi oy

b l enj
3. 4.

oi oy oi oy

t b
5. 6.

oi oy oi oy

s l p nt
Family: Your child traced the blue letters and wrote oi or oy to complete words that describe the pictures.
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 Unit 14, Lesson 2
Name Fluency and Spelling

Memory Words kind buy find right wash light

kind No matter what kind

Of seeds you buy,
You will find

buy They reach to the sky.

If you plant them right,
And the raindrops wash,
And the sun shines light,
Up they will pop, by gosh!
find
right
wash
light
Family: Your child listened to a song and read the lyrics to learn the pink Memory Words.
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 Unit 14, Lesson 3
Name Structural Analysis and Grammar

Words with the ending ly can tell you

how a person did something.

1. 2.

What did Cass do softly? What did Sal do quickly?

3. 4.

What did Toc do neatly? What did Frits do sadly?

5. 6.

What did Tic do happily? What did Icky do lazily?

Family: Your child underlined the ending -ly in the pink words and then circled the picture that answered
each question. 91

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 Unit 14, Lesson 4
Name Comprehension

1.

Toc and Alf waited

in line. Toc and Alf got birdseed.

2.

The Superkids forgot to The gardener gave Toc

buy seeds for Toc and Alf. and Alf plot number 4.

3.

Alf and Toc said they The birdseed plants got

planted birdseed. bigger and blossomed.

4.

Toc and Alf kept the soil The Superkids made fun
moist. of Toc and Alf.
Family: The sentences in the boxes tell about events from the story “For the Birds.” Your child drew arrows from the boxes
92 on the left to the boxes on the right to show the connections between events.

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 Family: Your child assembled a book and wrote Memory Words on the lines. How to Plant Carrots

The End

5. P
 ut the seed pack on a 2. F ind a good spot for
stick. Then you know what the garden.
kind of seeds you planted.
Unit 14, Lesson 5: Fluency and Comprehension

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 1. G
 o buy seed packets. 6. When the green part is
tall, it is time to dig up
the carrots. Wash them
off. Then eat them.

3. P
 lant the seeds where 4. S
 prinkle the seeds with a
it’s sunny. The plants will hose right away.
need lots of light.

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 Unit 14, Lesson 6
Name Phonemic Awareness and Phonics

Soft c stands for s . s s s

city nice place
1. 2.

cap pack ice dancer brick castle

3. 4.

truck face coat freckle cake pencil

Family: Your child underlined ci and ce in words at the top of the page, read the words under each picture, circled
the word in which c sounds like s, and drew a line from the word to the part of the picture it describes. 95

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 Unit 14, Lesson 6
Name Phonics and Spelling

Soft g stands for j . Spelling List

j j j j
age huge ginger Pattern Words

1. 2. ace
1. face
2. place

age
3. cage
4. page

ring cage rag page groan hugs Memory Words

3. 4.
5. kind
6. buy
7. find
8. right
9. wash
10. light

Golly gentle gum grapes drag huge

Family: Your child underlined ge or gi in words at the top of the page, read the words under each picture, circled the soft g
96 word, and drew a line from the word to the part of the picture it describes. Then he read and discussed the spelling list.

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 Unit 14, Lesson 7
Name Phonics and Spelling

1. 2.

race rice age huge

We eat . My is six.

3. 4.

face nice cage page

Wash your . Read a .

5. 6.

place mice rage stage

Cats chase . Sing on a .

7. 8.

city giraffe
pencil gentle
The
Sharpen your . has a long neck.
Family: Your child wrote the missing word to complete each sentence.
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 Unit 14, Lesson 7
Name Vocabulary and Spelling

kind buy find right wash light

1. This word rhymes with “by.”

2. T his word tells what you

hope to do when a thing
is lost.

3. T his word is how you

clean things.

4. T his word can mean

“not dark.”

5. This word can mean “nice.”

6. This word can mean

“not left.”
Family: Your child read the clues, wrote the Memory Word that goes with each clue, and discussed the meaning
98 of each word.

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 Unit 14, Lesson 8
Name Dictionary Skills: Alphabetizing

cat ant giraffe dog rat fly zebra bird

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

age arm ax add city card cent coin

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.
Family: Your child wrote words in alphabetical order.
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 Unit 14, Lesson 9
Name Grammar and Comprehension

How would Ettabetta say it?

1. “ Frits, your mitt was super,”

gently thankfully

she said .

softly sleepily

2. “I must catch that ball,” she whispered .

happily sadly

3. “That was a great game,” she said .

sadly excitedly

4. “Frits, I lost your mitt,” she said .

hopefully angrily

5. “Maybe I can earn some cash,” she said .

Family: Your child completed sentences by writing adverbs that describe how Ettabetta would have said the words
100 in quotation marks in the story “The Lost Mitt.”

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 Unit 14, Lesson 9
Name Spelling and Vocabulary

right light kind buy wash find

light.
1. Turn on the
kind.

2. I can’t find my lost mitten.

right

3. I need to light the muddy car.

wash

4. Raise your right hand.

wash 5

1
buy.
5. Helping a pal is
kind.
4

Family: Your child circled a Memory Word to complete each sentence and wrote that word in the crossword puzzle.
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 Unit 14, Lesson 10
Name Vocabulary and Writing

1. What can you do quickly?

2. What can you do happily?

3. What can you do carefully?

4. What can you do sloppily?

5. What can you do softly?

6. What can you do easily?

Family: Your child wrote sentences to answer questions about things he can do.
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 Name Draw and Write

Directions: Have children write sentences and draw a picture to illustrate what they wrote.

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