Lin Mills and Jill Finn are excited to spend six days at camp. Except, they cannot stand each other. And this could turn out to be a disaster. When things get out of control, Jill and Lin are forced to work things out on their own. Can these girls be able to overcome the past and become friends?Scope and Sequence Analysis: Explore detailed scope and sequence and read a sample chapter for each title on Simple Words Books' website.

Step: #5 Novice Decodable Chapter Books
Decodability: 89.2%
Word Count: 8476 words
Chapters: 10

• Irregular - taught: 1,634 words, 17 unique words, 19.3% of the word count. (a, the, to, are, do, of, does, from, they, was, you, have, says, there, what, Mr., Mrs.)
• Short vowels: 2,370 words, 133 unique words, 28.0% of the word count.
• Blends: 1,003 words, 127 unique words, 11.8% of the word count.
• Digraphs: 810 words, 77 unique words, 9.6% of the word count.
• FLSZ: 671 words, 43 unique words, 7.9% of the word count.
• Double consonants: 112 words, 9 unique words, 1.3% of the word count.
• -ng, -nk: 175 words, 35 unique words, 2.1% of the word count.
• -all: 142 words, 8 unique words, 1.7% of the word count.
• Open syllables: 639 words, 10 unique words, 7.5% of the word count.
• Silent e: 85 words, 5 unique words, 1.0% of the word count.
• Ctr r: 211 words, 4 unique words, 2.5% of the word count.
• Vowel teams: 305 words, 23 unique words, 3.6% of the word count.
• Y vowel: 58 words, 3 unique words, 0.7% of the word count.
• Compound: 24 words, 3 unique words, 0.3% of the word count.
• Multisyllabic: 100 words, 29 unique words, 1.2% of the word count.
• Irregular - other: 116 words, 10 unique words, 1.4% of the word count.
• Pre-teach words: 21 words, 5 unique words, 0.2% of the word count.

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