In this reading exercise, students read many words containing <ar> (as in ‘park’) and <a> (as in ‘past’). For efficiency and engagement, we find it best to work on extended code targets like <ar> and <a> while also working on reading fluency (accuracy, speed and expression) with sentences and short passages.

This no-prep 14-page reading workout is about a boy named Carl who lives above his family’s arcade store. Carl has lots of adventures with the arcade’s customers and the barber next door, and he loves old arcade games. Let’s read about Carl!

This no-prep exercise can be used for:

• • decoding practice; or
  • word or sentence level written dictation (encoding) practice.