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A snowman for Grandpa
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Follow a short story in the past tense.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- carrot
- A long orange vegetable.
- scarf
- A long piece of cloth you wear around your neck.
- melt
- To change from solid to liquid because of heat.
Answer key
- In the morning, the garden was white with snow.The t of “white” is soft before “with”.
- The children and their grandpa built a big snowman.“Built a” links: “buil-ta”.
- They used a carrot for his nose.“Used a” links: “yoo-zda”.
- Grandpa gave him his old red scarf.The h sounds in “him” and “his” are weak.
- When the sun came out, the snowman began to melt.The n of “began” runs into “to”.