Start Smart • WE ARE SPECIAL CONSUMABLE Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy ZzNn Oo Pp Qq A Listen and Read The Alphabet Words to Know I can Name Start Smart Published by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, of McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., Two Penn Plaza, New York, New York 10121. Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, network storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Printed in the United States of America ISBN-13: 978-0-02-206197-5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 MER 13 12 11 10 9 ISBN-10: 0-02-206197-5 Visit our Web site at www.macmillanmh.com At Home: Use the cover of the Activity Book to talk about what you and your child see. Illustrator credits: Cvr: Luciana Navarro Powell. 3: (l) Liz Conrad; (r) Jim Kelly. 4: Nathan Jarvis. 7: Bernard Adnet. 8: Nathan Jarvis. 11: Lyuba Bogan. 12: Nathan Jarvis. 15: Karen Strommer Brooks. 16: Karen Strommer Brooks. Photo Credits: All Photographs by Macmillan/McGraw Hill (MMH) except as noted below: 1: (a) Stockdisc/ PunchStock, (b) Radlund & Associates/Getty Images, (c) Eureka/Alamy, (d) imagebroker/Alamy, (e) Dirk v. Mallinckrodt/Alamy, (f) Jupiter Images/Comstock Images/Alamy, (g) Jules Frazier/Getty Images, (h) age fotostock/ SuperStock, (i) Photodisc/Getty Images, (j) Rubberball Productions/Getty Images, (k) John Shaw/Photo Researchers, (l) C Squared Studios/Getty Images, (n) Photodisc/SuperStock, (o) Photographers Choice RF/SuperStock, (p) Photo Spin/Getty Images, (q) Joshua Ets-Hokin/Getty Images, (r) Jupiterimages/Brand X/Corbis, (s) Jeremy Woodhouse/ Getty Images, (t) Ingram Publishing/Alamy, (u) Stockbyte/Getty Images, (v) Tui De Roy/Minden Pictures, (w) Photodisc/Getty Images, (x) C Squared Studios/Getty Images, (y) D. Hurst/Alamy, (z) Image State/Alamy. 15: (l) Stockbyte/Punchstock; ® BananaStock/Punchstock. 16: (r) Scholastic Studio 10/Index Stock Imagery. Pre-Decodable Readers Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Name Respond to the Big Book: Animals in the Park: An ABC Book Name the animal characters. Then draw another animal from the story. At Home: Ask your child to name each animal and the animal he or she drew. 33 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 1 ©Macmillan/McGraw-Hill I. I. I. High-Frequency Word: I Read the sentence: I run. Read the sentence: I read. Read the sentence: I eat. At Home: Ask your child to read the sentences aloud. run read eat 4 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 1 At Home: Ask your child to identify each pair of letters. Letter Recognition: Aa - Dd Name each letter. Draw a line to connect the capital and lowercase forms of the same letter. Name A a C b Dd B c ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 5 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 1 5 ©Macmillan/McGraw-Hill At Home: Ask your child to identify each pair of letters. Letter Recognition: Ee - Hh Name each letter. Draw a line to connect the capital and lowercase forms of the same letter. E e G f Hh F g ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 6 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 1 Name Respond to the Big Book: Hands Can Tell what action the children in the pictures are doing with their hands. Draw a picture that shows another action you can do with your hands. At Home: Ask your child to tell you about each picture using action words. 7 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 2 7 ©Macmillan/McGraw-Hill I can . I can . I can . High-Frequency Word: can Read the sentence: I can run. Read the sentence: I can read. Read the sentence: I can eat. At Home: Ask your child to read the sentences aloud. run read eat 8 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 2 Name Letter Recognition: Ii - Nn Name each letter. Draw a line to connect the capital and lowercase forms of the same letter. At Home: Ask your child to identify each pair of letters. I i j Mm J Kk Ll N n ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 9 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 2 9 ©Macmillan/McGraw-Hill At Home: Ask your child to identify each pair of letters. Letter Recognition: Oo - Rr Name each letter. Draw a line to connect the capital and lowercase forms of the same letter. O o Q Pp q rR ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 10 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 2 [...]... capital and lowercase forms of the same letter At Home: Ask your child to identify each pair of letters Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 3 13 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ y Y y Z z Z z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Letter Recognition: Yy - Zz Name each letter Draw a line to connect the capital and lowercase forms of the same letter 14 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 3 At Home:... drums yellow Color the horn blue At Home: Ask your child to point to and name each musical instrument Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 3 11 High-Frequency Words: I, can Read the sentence: I can eat Read the sentence: I can brush Read the sentence: I can sleep 12 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 3 eat brush sleep ©Macmillan/McGraw-Hill I can I can I can At Home: Ask your child to read the sentences... child to identify each pair of letters ©Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Y Name I can sleep High-Frequency Words: I, can Point to the title page first Then, read the book aloud to a partner 4 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 3 Take Home Book: Ask your child to read the book aloud to you ©Macmillan/McGraw-Hill I Can! I can eat 1 I can 2 brush I can MHID 0-02-206197-5 ISBN-13 978-002-206197-5 read 3 . aloud. run read eat 4 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 1 At Home: Ask your child to identify each pair of letters. Letter Recognition: Aa - Dd Name each letter. Draw a line to connect the capital and lowercase forms. to connect the capital and lowercase forms of the same letter. E e G f Hh F g ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 6 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 1 Name Respond to the. sentences aloud. run read eat 8 Start Smart: We Are Special • Week 2 Name Letter Recognition: Ii - Nn Name each letter. Draw a line to connect the capital and lowercase forms of the same letter. At