DECODABLE • 26

Jake and Gail

Go to Spain

Written by Robert Charles • Illustrated by Chris Grine

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Jake and Gail Go to Spain

A Reading A–Z Decodable Book • Word Count: 274

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 ELEMENTS USED IN THIS BOOK
New phonic element long /ā/ vowel digraphs: ai, ay, ea,
eigh, ey
Words with new phonic element day, eight, Gail, great, paint, rain, sail,
Snail, Spain, stay, they, train
Reviewed phonic elements final soft c and g ; long /ē/ digraphs;
inflectional endings -ed and -ing
Jake and Gail Go to Spain
Decodable Book 26
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Written by Robert Charles
Illustrated by Chris Grine
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Written by Robert Charles
Jake and Gail Go to Spain
 Jake Snake and Gail Snail want to take a trip.
“Where can we go?” asks Jake.
“We can go to Spain,” says Gail.
“We will get there on a plane.”
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How will Jake and Gail get to Spain?

on a train,” says Gail.
“No, you can’t get to Spain from here
“Can we take a train?”
“No! I don’t like planes,” says Jake.
 “Will you sail to Spain on a ship?” asks Gail.
Jake grinned a big grin on his face.
“Yes, that is a great plan!” says Jake.
“We can sail on a huge ship to get to Spain.”
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 Jake and Gail make plans to sail to Spain.
“It will take eight days to sail by ship,” says Gail.
“We will spend three weeks in Spain.
We will hike and play and have the best
time in Spain.”
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 Jake and Gail get to Spain.
But there is no hiking or playing.
There is lots and lots of raining.
Yuck!
“What will we do?” asks Jake.
“Will we leave and go home?”
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 “No!” says Gail.
“We will just not go out in the rain.
We will stay in and have lots of fun.
There is a class we can take.
The class will teach us how to paint.”
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 Gail and Jake get some brushes
and pots of paint.
They go to the class and paint.
They paint while it rains.
They paint when the rain stops.
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And they did.
“We will stay and sell what we paint.”
“No, we will stay in Spain,” says Gail.
“Will we leave and go home?”
“What will we do?” asks Jake.
Jake and Gail want to keep painting.