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A Splashy Day at the Water Park

Read a short water park story and practice tricky words like friend, could, many and again that do not sound the way they look.

Grade 1ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRF.1.3.g

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 9 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 1
Subject
ELA
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students read irregularly spelled words such as friend, could, many, and again.
  • Students pick out a tricky word from words that look almost the same.
  • Students choose the tricky word that makes sense in a sentence.

How to use

Read the story with students, then point to each tricky word and read it together. Let students do the matching and missing letters on their own.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RF.1.3.g

Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

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A Splashy Day at the Water Park

Read tricky words in a story.

Read the story

Read the story. Then answer the questions.

The Water Park

1Rosa and her friend Jun went to the water park with Rosa's dad. There were so many people! Kids were laughing on every slide.

2First, they put on their life vests. Then they went down the big blue slide two times. Splash! Jun's tube was full of water.

3"Could we try the tall green slide?" Rosa asked. "Yes," said Dad. "I would like to go, too." Dad pushed off first. Rosa and Jun went next.

4At the end of the day, Rosa was very tired. "Can we come back again?" she asked. "One day soon," said Dad.

1.
Read paragraph 2. How many times did they go down the big blue slide?
  • A. one time
  • B. three times
  • C. two times
  • D. four times
2.
Read paragraph 2. What was full of water?
  • A. Rosa's life vest
  • B. Jun's tube
  • C. Dad's bag
  • D. the green slide
3.
Read paragraph 4. What does Rosa ask Dad?
  • A. "Could we go home now?"
  • B. "Would you like a snack?"
  • C. "Where is my friend Jun?"
  • D. "Can we come back again?"

Tricky word practice

Some words do not sound the way they look. Read these tricky words by heart.

4.
Each word on the left is written the way it sounds. Match it to the right way to spell it.
  1. wun
  2. frend
  3. agen
  4. meny
  1. A. many
  2. B. one
  3. C. friend
  4. D. again
5.
Write the missing letters to finish each tricky word.

They went down the slide tw  times.
C ld we try the green slide?
I w ld like to go, too.
Jun's tube was full of w ter.

6.
Some words look a lot like could. Circle the word could every time you see it.

coldcouldwouldcloudcouldshouldcould

Read and choose

Read each sentence. Choose the tricky word that makes sense.

7.
Jun went down the slide one time. Then he went down ___.
  • A. again
  • B. about
  • C. away
  • D. any
8.
There were so ___ people in the wave pool.
  • A. much
  • B. any
  • C. many
  • D. more
9.
Use a word from the word bank to finish each sentence. One word will not be used.
Word bank: only · once · put · water · from

The pool is full of cold  .
Please   your towel in the bag.
This snack is   Dad.
Mia went down   one slide before lunch.

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