K-2 Decodable Book

Lesson 20.1 Schwa In first syllable

Sylvester’s Notes

Words to Read circus

problem

children

pencil

tickets

kitchen seconds

elephants

traveling

Sylvester sat at his desk in the circus train’s caboose. Sylvester felt stressed. He had so much to remember. Running a circus was hard! Right now Sylvester had to get asparagus for his elephants, clean his shark’s traveling aquarium, shine the marble steps used for dog tricks, check the weather, feed his hamster, get hammers for his crew, and more. Sylvester’s problem was that he forgot a lot! He was afraid he might forget even more! He needed a way to remember to get apples for his horses, get ready for the children’s show, and ask baker Bob to whip up fresh pretzels. How would Sylvester remember all this? Then an idea hit him. He could write things on little notes. He would stick those notes on his desk. Sylvester found sticky yellow pieces of paper. With his pencil, he wrote note after note on those papers. He stuck them along his desk’s

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