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Meow-inara waits by the green gate for a music sheet in the mail. Rain dots her coat.
Reading Trail · Step 5 · FreeMeow‑inara’s
Meow‑inara’s
Vowel‑Team Duet
A five-page rainy-night duet for practising vowel teams: ai, ee, oa and ea.
Beginning readerVowel teamsRead together
Begin the story
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The sheet does not arrive. Across the road, Pork-ulele plays the tune from a small boat.
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Meow-inara cannot see each note, so she listens for the beat. She paints three sound marks: slow, high, sweet.
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They meet beneath the moon and play a duet. Her clear notes float over his deep chords.
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The missing sheet arrives the next day, but Meow-inara keeps her painted score. A good team can hear a new way forward.
The end · Great reading
How does Meow-inara learn the tune?
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She listens and paints sound marks. She listens for the beat and paints marks for the sounds she hears.
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