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Cooking on the Front Burner

Stories with More Vowel PairsWritten by Sylvia Davison & Illustrated by Holly Davison

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Raccoons oo=/oo/, ch=/k/, dge=/j/. . . . . . . . 4

Cooking on the Front Burner oo=/oo /, nd . . .10

Snowflakes ow=/o/, homographs, antonyms. .16

The Shoemaker ow=/ou/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

A Mouse in Our House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 ou = /ou/, wr, tion = /shun/

Everything Old is New . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39ew=/oo/ and /oo /

Awful or Awesome? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50aw=/o/, u=/oo /, sion=/shu n/ or /zhu n/

The Haunted House au=/o/, (w)a=/o/. . . . . 60

Noisy Boys oi=/oi/, oy=/oi/ . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Weather Reporter ea=/e/. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Funny Money ey=/e /, y=//, . . . . . . . . . . . 91

A Piece of Cake ie=/e /. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Soups On! ou=/oo/, ei=/a /, eigh=/a / . . . . 108

Go PhonicsA Foundation for Reading, Writing, and Spelling

Now Heather is twenty two yearsold. She has finished her schooling. She has a job at the TV station in her town. What kind of job do you think she has? Youre right! Shes Heather the Weather Girlon the morning news.

Now, if youre interestedin the weather, and study as hardas Heather, perhaps you too can bea Heather the Weather Girl. And if youre a boy, perhaps youll beDan the Weatherman. Excerpt from the Go Phonics Level Five Storybook. 1-800-553-5950 www.gophonics.comCopyright 2001 Foundations for Leanring, LLC All right reserved.

into six colors. The same thinghappens when sunlight shinesthrough raindrops. That prism became one of Heathers dearest treasures.

In school, whenever the teacherasked a question about weather,Heathers hand was the first one up.The children began teasing her. They called her Heather, the weathergirl. She didnt mind the teasing at all.

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There was so much more to learnabout weather. Heather kept asking and learning. She visited weatherstations and studied the weather mapsspread on the wall. She listened to theweather forecast on the news each day.

It was that same year that Heatherstarted asking about rainbows. Her grandma gave her a prism. She explained that sunlight was madeup of six colors. Sunlight shiningthrough the prism was broken up

rain

trees

landriver, lake, or sea

cloudscold air

warm air withwater vapor

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