The Lost Frog: Decodable Reader (Stage 4)
Free printable decodable reading passage, "The Lost Frog", strictly limited to the phonics taught by Stage 4: Consonant blends (stop, hand, jump). It is fully decodable for early readers, with large print and simple comprehension questions. Print as a PDF.
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Decodable Reader: The Lost Frog
Read the story out loud, sounding out each word. Then answer the questions together. A grown-up can read the questions aloud.
For the grown-up: Decodable reader, Stage 4: Consonant blends (stop, hand, jump). Every word can be sounded out using only the phonics taught up to this stage: blending two adjacent consonants at the start (bl, st, tr, sn) and the end (nd, mp, st, nk) of a word, with no new letters, just harder blending. The only exceptions are the permitted heart words (learned by sight): the, a, i, to, of, was, he, she, we, me, be, go, no, so, do, you, my, by, are, they, said, put, her, here, there, come, some, one, all, into, for, friend.
Fran had a pet frog. The frog is Spot. Spot went for a big jump and got lost. Fran did not stop. She went past the pond and the long grass. Spot sat on a flat rock in the sun. Fran ran up fast. She held Spot in her hands. Spot and Fran went back for lunch.
- 1.What is the frog called?
- 2.What did Spot do to get lost?
- 3.Where did Fran find Spot?
- 4.What did they do at the end?
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