Pat and his pals are back in the seventh installment of the Pat & Pals series! And this time, it’s a chapter book with a hilarious story in a vibrantly illustrated graphic novel, The Wild Trip: A Decodable Chapter Book for Graphic Novel Fans.
This story includes decodable text based on a limited number of previously learned phonics rules, making it perfect for readers who have mastered decoding single and multisyllabic closed syllable words, as well as vowel- consonant-e syllables.
Scope and Sequence for The Wild Trip: A Decodable Chapter Book For Graphic Novel Fans
Readers who have mastered the ability to decode single and multisyllabic closed syllable words, as well as vowel-consonant-e syllables, will be able to decode most of this graphic novel independently.
Included are single and multisyllabic closed syllable words with these concepts:
♥︎ consonant-vowel-consonant (cvc)
closed syllables (short vowel) (examples: wet, dug, big, sad)
♥︎ closed syllables with digraphs: ch, ck, sh, th, wh (examples: peck, this, then, shed)
♥︎ closed syllables with double consonants: f, l, s, z, all (examples: fluff, skull, grass, fuzz, small)
♥︎ closed syllables with suffix -s (examples: pecks, bugs, hops)
♥︎ closed syllables with -ng, -nk (examples: hung, bang, thank, think)
♥︎ closed syllables with consonant blends: CCVC, CVCC (examples: snug, flag, soft, lamp, jump)
♥︎ closed syllables with 5 sounds: CCVCC, CCCVC (examples: slept, scrub, crept)
♥︎ possessives and contractions (examples: chick’s, Hank’s, let’s, that’s)
♥︎ multisyllabic words with two closed syllables (examples: backpack, panic, blanket, second, picnic)
♥︎ vowel-consonant-e syllables (long vowel) (examples: lake, hike, shade, pole)
♥︎ vowel-consonant-e syllables with blends (examples: snake, close, broke)
♥︎ed, ing suffixes added to basewords (examples: fixing, spinning, trotted, stranded)
This graphic novel also has “sticky words,” or words with irregular spellings or phonics spellings that have yet to be learned. A list of sticky words precedes each chapter.
