UNIT
13
Vowel
diphthong
/ou/
syllable
patterns
Reproducible Tools, Activities,
and Home Connections
Frieze Card
Day
1
Letter Cards
Word Lists
Day
2
Word Lists
Reading Passage 1
High-Frequency
Word Cards
Word Lists
Reading Passages
1&2
High-Frequency
Word Cards
Word Lists
Reading Passages
1&3
Spelling Peer Check
Day
3
Take-Home Activity
Day
4
Student Word Cards
Day
5
Letter Cards
B
Reading Passage 1
E N C H M A R K
ISBN # 978-1-4108-5954-9
High-Frequency
Word Cards
E
Student
Word Cards
D U C A T I O N
C
O M P A N Y
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Unit 13 BLM 1 Letter Cards
w e i o u u
n p r r s t
a b c d h m
Name: ____________________________________________________________________________
Word Lists
Word Lists
Day One
Day Two
brow
howl
loud
house
found
plow
growl
brown
down
sound
wow
pouch
noun
crowd
count
drown
Day Three
Day Four
outfit
flower
discount
cloudy
aloud
vowel
playground
rowdy
chowder
warehouse
powder
towel
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Unit 13 BLM 2
Jean’s mom saw her sitting with her head
____ 8
down. “What is the matter?” her mom said.
____ 16
“I don’t want to go to clown school!” said Jean with
____ 27
a frown. “This morning they crown the Clown King
____ 36
and Queen. I came in last the year before and I
____ 47
don’t want to fail.”
____ 51
“Don’t pout,” Mom said. “It will not matter if you
____ 61
don’t win.”
____ 63
Jean agreed to go. She got
____ 69
her round nose from her
____ 74
clown pouch and put it on.
____ 80
She painted on her red
____ 85
mouth and sad clown eyes.
____ 90
Then she put on her wig and
____ 97
her yellow gown.
____ 100
Jean went down to clown school to try her luck.
____ 110
She heard a shout from the crowd. “Jean is our new
____ 121
Clown Queen!” Feeling very proud, Jean took a bow. ____ 130
Unit 13 BLM 3
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Reading Passage 1
Clown School
Cowboy Bunkhouse
Reading Passage 2
There was a powerful smell in the cowboy
bunkhouse. Flowers sprouted from the couch,
and there was rusty brown powder on the mousetraps.
“Yep,” Cowboy Bill shouted over the rowdy cowboys.
“It is time for a good spring scouring.”
The other cowboys pouted. “Housework makes us
grouchy,” they said. But they put the flowers into
flowerpots and swept the mousetraps outside.
“Good,” said Cowboy Bill. “However,
something still smells sour.” He gave
each cowboy a bar of soap. “Go
downstream and take a shower!”
The cowboys ran howling, “Last one
in is a clown!” And after an hour,
they came out as sweet as flowers.
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Unit 13 BLM 4
One cloudy day, Miss Kit went downstairs in her
nightgown. Her tummy was growling loudly.
“I could devour a sow, snout and all!” Miss Kit said.
However, her pantry did not have even a mouthful of
food.
“What can I do?” Miss Kit said, frowning. Then her
nose found a good smell. It came from outside. It came
from the county fair.
She put on her new outfit and went downhill and
downtown. It began to rain. It was a real downpour,
but she found the fairground just the same.
At the fair, Miss Kit ate four hot dogs, a brownie, and
some chowder. “Mmmm,” she said,
proudly. “Our townspeople
make the best chow!”
Unit 13 BLM 5
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Reading Passage 3
Miss Kit
Name: ____________________________________________________________________________
Spelling Peer Check
Spelling Peer Check
First Try
Second Try
(if needed)
Correct Spelling
1. ________
1. ________
1. ________
2. ________
2. ________
2. ________
3. ________
3. ________
3. ________
4. ________
4. ________
4. ________
5. ________
5. ________
5. ________
6. ________
6. ________
6. ________
7. ________
7. ________
7. ________
8. ________
8. ________
8. ________
9. ________
9. ________
9. ________
Teacher Directions: Have student pairs cut the list from the rest of the page. One student reads from the list
while the other spells the words in the column.
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Unit 13 BLM 6
head
this
school
year
last
before
don’t
from
put
then
took
new
said
very
Unit 13 BLM 7 High-Frequency Word Cards
what
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saw
Unit 13 BLM 8 Student Word Cards
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blouse
couch
bound
sour
hour
snout
spout
slouch
brow
cow
owl
prowl
scowl
browse
fowl
chow
shower
rewound
without
tower
lighthouse
loudly
how
gown
downtown
counted
pouted
grouchy
brownie
outside
Unit 13 BLM 9 Student Word Cards
scour
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proud
Sentence Scramble
Roy put the brown pillow
when he heard a scary sound.
“Ouch! That hurt!”
a little house in town.
The farmer used a plow
on the couch.
Our dog let out a howl
to grow some corn for her cow.
The little mouse found
said the grouchy boy.
Parent Directions: Have your child cut out the sentence parts and then put the parts together to form sentences
that make sense.
Unit 13 BLM 11
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Take-Home Activity
Name: ____________________________________________________________________________