Part One
Pip is a little penguin.
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Pip is a little penguin who wants to fly, and flap, flap, flap does not work. Then a friend asks Pip to jump in the sea.
Pip is a little penguin.
Pip wants to fly. Flap, flap, flap!
Pip gets up on a big rock.
Pip jumps and lands on the ice.
A bird flies by. Pip is sad.
Pip can not fly like that bird.
Ned the penguin says, "Jump in!"
Pip jumps in the sea. Splash!
Pip's flippers go flap, flap, flap.
Pip can swim and swim. Pip is fast!
Pip gets a fish. Ned gets a fish.
Pip can not fly in the sky.
But Pip can fly in the sea!
A free Grade 1 story from the Peabody library, Level 4. It has 13 short pages and about 88 words, so it reads in a few minutes.
At reading level 4, Peabody's practice works on phonics (sounding words out), first sounds, sight words; the level page says what is in each.
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