The BASIC NotB oring SERIES GRADES 2-3 IP 405-1 Phonics & Word Skills Inventive Exercises to Sharpen Skills and Raise Achievement Series Concept & Development by Imogene Forte & Marjorie Frank Exercises by Laurie Grupé INCENTIVE PUBLICATIONS
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Celebrate Basic Language Skills... 7 Skills Checklist... 8 Skills Exercises... 9 Choose Your Adventure!... (Beginning, Middle, & Ending Consonants)... 10 Adventure #1 A Bumpy Camel Ride... (Middle Consonants)... 12 Adventure #2 Reptile Races... (Consonant Blends)... 13 Adventure #3 A Low-Down Place... (S Blends)... 14 Adventure #4 A High-in-the-Sky Place... (L & R Blends)... 15 Adventure #5 Through the Iceberg Maze... (Beginning & Ending Digraphs)... 16 Adventure #6 Over the Edge... (Consonant Blends & Digraphs)... 17 Adventure #7 The Super Ferris Wheel... (Double Consonants)... 18 Adventure #8 Snorkeling the Great Reef... (Alphabetizing)... 19 Adventure #9 Deep in the Rain Forest... (Vowels)... 20 Adventure #10 The Bullfight... (Short Vowels)... 21 Adventure #11 Clowning Around... (Long Vowels)... 22 Adventure #12 Lion-Sized Thrills... (Long Vowels with Silent e)... 23 Adventure #13 Moose Tracking... (Double Vowels)... 24 Adventure #14 Rhino Watching... (Vowel Combinations)... 25 Adventure #15 A Helicopter Flight... (Vowel Combination: ow)... 26 Adventure #16 Meet the Meat Eaters... (Vowel Combinations)... 27 Adventure #17 Fire Danger!... (Vowel Combinations: long a)... 28 Adventure #18 Hurricane Watch... (Vowel Combinations: ai, oa, ou, ea)... 29 Adventure #19 Yodel with a Yeti... (Y as a Consonant Y as a Vowel)... 30 Adventure #20 Stalk a Sasquatch... (Silent Letters)... 31 Adventure #21 Hunt for Pirate s Treasure... (Use Phonics to Read Whole Words)... 32 Adventure #22 The Sea Turtle Races... (Inflectional Endings)... 33
Adventure #23 The Big Jump... (Prefixes)... 34 Adventure #24 Log Rolling on the River... (Suffixes)... 35 Adventure #25 Visit a Desert Hotel... (Prefixes & Suffixes)... 36 Adventure #26 Nighttime Snooping... (Root Words)... 37 Adventure #27 Rodeo Ride... (Root Words)... 38 Adventure #28 A Swamp Cruise... (Syllables)... 39 Adventure #29 Tornado Alert!... (Syllables)... 40 Adventure #30 Volcanic Visit... (Contractions)... 41 Adventure #31 Go Spelunking!... (Contractions)... 42 Adventure #32 Alaska Camp Out... (Compound Words)... 43 Adventure #33 The Wild Boar Chase... (Similar Sounds Spelling)... 44 Adventure #34 A Lot of Hot Air... (Homonyms)... 45 Adventure #35 Ski the Alps... (Homonyms)... 46 Adventure #36 Track the Mountain Gorilla... (Proper Nouns)... 47 Adventure #37 Elephant Ride... (Plural Nouns)... 48 Adventure #38 Visit the Crowded Sahara... (Possessive Nouns)... 49 Adventure #39 Catch a Great Wave!... (Synonyms)... 50 Adventure #40 Catch a Giraffe Ride... (Antonyms)... 51 Adventure #41 Galaxy Cruising... (Synonyms & Antonyms)... 52 Adventure #42 A Scuba Lesson... (Multiple Meanings)... 53 Adventure #43 Hike the Great Wall... (Word Classification)... 54 Adventure #44 Earthquake Inspection... (New Vocabulary)... 55 Adventure #45 Hot Spots & Cold Spots... (New Vocabulary)... 56 Adventure #46 Time Travel... (Word Formation)... 57 Appendix Phonics & Word Skills Test... 58 Answer Key... 62
Choose Your Adventure! The signs tell about some exciting adventures. Look at all the signs. Circle the beginning consonants or blends with red. Circle the ending consonants or blends with blue. 10 Name Use with page 11. Beginning, Middle, & Ending Consonants Copyright 1998 by Incentive Publications, Inc., Nashville, TN. Basic Skills Phonics & Word Skills 2-3
Choose Your Adventure, cont. Search for consonants or consonant blends in the middle of words. Circle middle consonants or blends with green. Name Copyright 1998 by Incentive Publications, Inc., Nashville, TN. Basic Skills Phonics & Word Skills 2-3 Use with page 10. Beginning, Middle, & Ending Consonants 11