For middle and high school RTI or to strengthen-controlled vowel connections, students may do a repeated reading of this very challenging short story. This is not a decodable. This is for remediation for students who need more practice, but have a fair to good understanding of most spellings. For increasing phonemic awareness of the different sounds made by or, ar, and the three similar ur, ir, and er, there is a word chaining activity. The word chaining activity is lengthy, so you might wish to