Chip and the Shell: the full story
Part One
Chip is a crab.
Chip gets in a shell.
The shell is big.
Chip is in the shell.
The shell is big, big, big!
Chip is lost, lost, lost!
Chip gets a red shell.
The red shell fits Chip!
It fits, it fits!
Chip is a crab.
Chip and the Shell
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Chip the crab gets a shell. It is too big, and Chip is lost in it. Then a red shell fits just right.
The whole story on one page
About Chip and the Shell
A free early reader story from the Peabody library, Level 2. It has 9 short pages and about 43 words, so it reads in a few minutes.
Words this story teaches
- crab: a sea animal
- shell: a hard home
- lost: can not find
At reading level 2, Peabody's practice works on first sounds, rhymes; the level page says what is in each.
To print it or save it as a PDF, tap the ⓘ button above the story, then “Print this story”.
This is a first reader, so it also prints as a little book or on one page: print this book. For more like it, see beginning reader books, decodable readers, sight word stories.
More stories at Level 2
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