First Bird

A bird race story.

Lesson 61 · Unit 8 · R-Controlled Vowels · New Concept

New this lesson: ir

Words to practise: bird, girl, first, third, shirt, dirt, stir, twirl

The girl's shirt has dirt on it. The bird went first.

Lesson 61. Sounds: ir. Mastery: Reads ir words 9/10; knows ir=er sound

In the lesson

Practice: Same-sound talk: er/ir sound identical; spelling memory

With Wiggler: AI 'same sound, which spelling?' game

Sounds: /er/ (same sound!)

Unit 8: R-Controlled Vowels

7 lessons ar or er ir ur to full automaticity; knows er/ir/ur share one sound (ar first heard in Unit 1, Group 7)

• Lesson 58 · The Star on the Barn (New Concept): Farm kids spot a star.
• Lesson 59 · The Fort in the Storm (New Concept): Kids shelter in a fort.
• Lesson 60 · Her Fern (New Concept): A girl and her giant fern.
• Lesson 61 · First Bird (New Concept): A bird race story.
• Lesson 62 · The Surfing Nurse (New Concept): A nurse who surfs on her day off.
• Lesson 63 · The Bird, the Girl, and the Surf (New Concept): Trio story.
• Lesson 64 · The Farm in the North (Checkpoint): Checkpoint story.

Part of Skill 8: R-Controlled Vowels

• Previous lesson: Her Fern
• Next lesson: The Surfing Nurse
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