Old Sticky Words
Dog jogs on a path next to a thicket.
Sobs and yelps for help come from within the thicket.
He spots a sloth
in an elm. An elm
is not tropical! Is the sloth lost?
Dog yells up, “Sloth, can I help? A sloth comes from the tropics, but this is not a tropical land.”
“Dog, I am smitten with this elm. I am not lost, but I have a thick film of moss that I cannot get off!”
“I had a bath, but last month, in a big wind, it fell with a thud. I am a mess with this moss.”
The moss has a smell that does not thrill the sloth. The insects and the moths see the sloth as a log.
“Buck up, Sloth! I can fix this problem. I will invent a lift.”
Dog can help with his math skills. The
lift must pull up
a bath with a big width and depth.
Dog
jogs the path back to get a
second-hand bath at
a thrift spot, “Thrift on Fifth.”
Dog lugs the bath back to the sloth’s spot. He lifts the bath up with his lift-method.
He puts a funnel that will grab drops to fill the bath.
Then, the tub sits in the sun to get hot.
Dog
helps his sloth
With a cloth and suds, the sloth and Dog can get rid of the moss!
slo th th icket with in
mon th bath th ud
math wid th depth
th rift th rill mo th s
Slow Down Sounds digraph: th
beginning blends: sl, sp, tr, sm, sk, pr, gr, cl, dr
double letter blends: ll, ss, ff, ck
ending blends: xt, nd, lp, lm, ct, nt, ft
multisyllabic words:
within, thicket, tropical, tropics, smitten, insects, problem, invent, second, funnel, method