Arrange the events as they happened in the story “Tower to the

Moon” that your teacher read.

____The king sent for the best carpenter in the kingdom.
____The king climbed higher and higher until he came to the
top of the tower.
____ The king commanded that every chest in the kingdom be
brought to the carpenter.
____ The carpenter yelled at the king that there were no more
boxes anywhere.
____ The carpenter walked to the tower and
pulled out the bottom box.
Read the paragraph. Pay attention to the words in boldface.
Pronounce them the way your teacher did when he/she read the
story.

The king sits on a high throne. He wants to go to the moon.

So he commands a carpenter and his men to build a tower
for him. They think of a way to build a tower. They post a
notice to gather all the boxes in the kingdom. The carpenter
and his men know that the boxes will not be enough to
build a tower.
• Where does the king sit?
• What does he want to do?
• What do they post to gather all the boxes?
• Could they build a tower with the boxes? Why?
Why not?
Read other words with long o.

go code bone rope

throne so rode

cone stove notice

Exercise 2
Read the phrases.

-the dog’s bone

-an ice cream cone
-use the code
-rode to a cove
-poke with a pole