14 to sleep, Count sheep

Give a great holler, a cheer, a yell For all of the words that we can spell Three little letters, that's all that we need To make a whole family of words to read!. -e Make a list words..

-eep

When the night is long and you can't sleep, just lie in bed and count some sheep.

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One sheep in a Jeep.

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Two sheep in a traffic jam

-BEEP! -BEEP! -BEEP!

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Three sheep sit and weep.

Four sheep dust and sweep.

Five sheep visit Little Bo Peep.

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Six sheep in the ocean deep.

Seven sheep on a hill that's steep.

Eight sheep quietly creep.

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Nine sheep feeding

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CHEEP! CHEEP! CHEEP!

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Ten sheep fast asleep

just l ike this boy-shhh! Don't make a peep!

Listen to the riddle sentences Add the right letter

or letters to the -eep sound to finish each one.

When you honk a horn it makes a

loud _eep.

Jack and Jill climbed a h i ll that was really

Give a great holler, a cheer, a yell

For all of the words that we can spell

Three little letters, that's all that we need

To make a whole family of words to read!

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Make a list

words Then use them in the cheer!

Here are some quick and fun ways to use this story to help children learn the word family -eep.

Explain to children that you are going to read a story that has many words with the -eep sound,

made by the le ers E, E,and P.All these words belong to a group called aword family

Ask children tofind the -eep word ending atth top ofthe front cover Review aloud with children the

more words that end in -eep Can they h lp yo find them?

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and identify all the words that e d in-eep (they might raise their hand or clap when they hear on ,

the rest of the word Read each word on the cards with childre On another reading of the story,

distribute the cards to children and have them hold up

their card astheir word isre d

choose a"cheerle der")

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What should you do when you can't sleep?

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early phon i cs ski ll s by teach i ng ch il dren t o recognize "fam il ies " of words that share t he same spelling pattern This key reading strategy helps kids decode n ew wo r ds with ease-and become stronger readers , writers , and spellers Set learners on the path to literacy success with these rib - tickling ta l es-one for each of the top 25 word famil i es !

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