Decodable Book 17 Grade 2

DECODABLE BOOK

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DECODABLE BOOK 17

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Contents Meg and the Groundhog

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Vowel Diphthong /ou/ ou, ow

Found in the Ground!

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Vowel Diphthong /ou/ ou, ow

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by Carlynn Trout illustrated by Susan Estelle Kwas

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Meg lives on a farm about five miles outside of town in Crown County. She has a pony named Cloudy and a brown cow named Browny.

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Meg likes to be outside. She dug a garden bed on a cloudy day in May. She planted seeds in the brown ground and watched them sprout. Now her garden is crowded with plants.

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One day, Meg came outside and found a brown groundhog in her garden. “Cloudy and Browny!” Meg yelled out loud. “Come down to the garden. See this brown groundhog!”

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Cloudy ran out of the barn and down to the garden. Browny came down from a round hill. Cloudy and Browny spotted the groundhog. It had a round body and brown fur. It was eating a mound of beans.

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“Get out!” Meg yelled loudly. “Stop eating now!” The groundhog turned around proudly and ate green beans. Meg frowned. She clapped her hands loudly and counted to ten. The groundhog still ate.

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Meg pouted. “That groundhog is about to eat up my beans,” she said. “What can we do about this?” Cloudy made a loud sound with his feet. Browny sounded her bell loudly. The groundhog leaped up and ran out of the garden. It raced around fences and slid down a brown hole in the ground.

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Meg put her arms around Cloudy and Browny. “I am so proud of you!” she said.

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by C.M. Thorsen

illustrated by Mary Collier

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Do you like digging around in dirt? What if you found a surprise while digging in the ground? At times, towns have found surprises when digging deep holes for new buildings.

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Digging downtown may sound dull, but a hole in the ground can be full of countless surprises. Things like coins, plates, and old brown jugs can tell about what life was like years ago. 11

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Big rigs got in gear when this town needed a new town building. The rigs dug in the brown ground and piled dirt in mounds. Crowds gazed at them, but Stan and Beth frowned and spoke out.

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“Please stop now!” Stan shouted. “We must see what surprises can be found around this place.” The digging stopped. Men from the crowd slipped down in the hole. The crowd gazed at them digging by hand with rounded blades. 13

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“He found a mound of round beads!” Stan shouted. “Who left them in this place?” “He found toys and a tin crown!” shouted Beth. “Who played around this place years ago?” 14

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Stan and Beth’s friends found cloudy jars and a brown cowbell. They found round buttons and a flute that made sounds. They counted and cleaned each thing they found.

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Those surprises can now be found at the town building. People from around the county come to town to see them. They feel proud about what was found in the ground of this town. 16

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Meg and the Groundhog Word Count: 240 High-Frequency Words come do from lives of my one put said to was watched what you

Decodable Words* a about am and arms around ate barn be beans bed bell body brown Browny came can clapped cloudy counted county cow crowded crown

day down dug eat eating farm feet fences fi ve found frowned fur garden get green ground groundhog had hands has her hill his hole

*Boldface words indicate sound-spelling introduced in this story.

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(continued)

Decodable Words* I in is it leaped likes loud loudly made May Meg miles mound named now on out outside planted plants pony pouted proud proudly raced

ran round see seeds she slid so sound sounded spotted sprout still stop ten that the them this town turned up we with yelled

*Boldface words indicate sound-spelling introduced in this story.

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Found in the Ground! Word Count: 243 High-Frequency Words ago building buildings by come do for friends from have new of people they to was what who you

Decodable Words* a about and around at be beads Beth Beth’s big blades brown but buttons can cleaned cloudy coins counted countless county cowbell crowd crowds

crown deep digging dirt down downtown dug dull each feel flute found frowned full gazed gear got ground hand he hole holes if

*Boldface words indicate sound-spelling introduced in this story.

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(continued)

Decodable Words* in jars jugs left life like made may men mound mounds must needed now old out piled place plates played please proud rigs round

rounded see shouted slipped sound sounds spoke Stan stop stopped surprise surprises tell that the them thing things this those times tin town towns

toys we when while with years

*Boldface words indicate sound-spelling introduced in this story.

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by Carlynn Trout illustrated by Susan Estelle Kwas

by C.M. Thorsen

illustrated by Mary Collier

Vowel Diphthong /ou/ou, ow

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