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  • Short Vowels Skill Explainer

Decodable — The Big Job

Use this decodable text to give students practice reading closed-syllable words with short 'o'. For example, the letter 'o' in job represents the short 'o' sound because the vowel is closed in by the consonant 'b'.

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