Read and Build a Scene Short E CVC Sentences Cut and Paste Kindergarten 1st

About this resource

A build-a-scene activity where every piece — and every piece that ISN'T supposed to go in the scene — is a

word the child has to read, not guess from the picture. Ten short-e scenes: a yard, a campsite, a farm, a pond

and a bedroom, each visited twice with new sentences and a new set of pictures. Every scene comes twice — full

color and an ink-saver black-and-white twin — so one purchase prints either way.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (25 pages)

• 10 full-color scenes: three decodable sentences ("The ___ is on / in / by the ___."), a Read-3-Times flower

tracker, three word-work boxes (say the picture, write one letter per box), a large illustrated setting,

and six cut-and-paste pictures in an edge-to-edge strip — only three belong in the sentences; the other

three are short-e words that don't (Scene 1 leaves out an egg, a bed and a leg; Scene 2 leaves out an elf,

a leg and a ten) so the student has to read to choose

• The same 10 scenes again, ink-saver black-and-white, page for page
• 1 Start Here page with the five-step routine
• 1 answer key (the same three answers per scene, whichever version is printed)
• 1 reading-and-scene tracker, one row per student, ten scenes across, with type-in fields (12 student rows)
• 1 Terms of Use & Credits page
• 8 short-e words in all (bed, egg, elf, leg, net, pen, ten, web). The bed, pen and web pictures come from

Google Noto Emoji and Microsoft Fluent Emoji; the net, elf, leg and ten are drawn for this product in color

and ink-saver (the ten is the numeral 10 on a round sign), and so is the ink-saver egg (the color egg is

Noto), because no emoji in either catalog reads unmistakably as those words

How Each Scene Works

1. Read the three sentences three times, coloring a flower each time.

2. Word work: say each picture's word, then write one letter in each box.

3. Cut out the six pictures. Only three are in the sentences — the other three are short-e words that don't

belong, so the student has to read to choose, not match a picture to a picture.

4. Glue each picture where its sentence says: on, in or by.

5. Check with the answer key. Log the reads and the pictures placed on the tracker.

Why The Look-Alikes Matter

A cut-and-paste page with only the pictures a sentence needs can be solved by matching shapes, never reading

a word. Every scene here adds three more short-e words that could belong in the picture but don't belong in

THIS sentence (Scene 2 glues a bed, an egg and a web, and also offers an elf, a leg and a ten) — so building

the scene correctly means decoding the sentence, not recognizing the picture.

Cut-And-Paste, With One Type-In Page

Pieces are cut with scissors and glued by hand, and the name line and word-work boxes are pencil work: the

scene pages are print-and-cut. The one exception is the tracker page (page 14), which has type-in fields for

student names and scene scores, so you can type on screen before printing or fill it in by hand. This is a PDF;

it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Kindergarten and first-grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms — anywhere a student is ready for

short-e words and a simple prepositional sentence, with room to work and pieces sized for scissors that

aren't yet precise.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A decoding and prepositional-sentence cut-and-paste activity. It is not a reading assessment, not a

speech-language evaluation tool, and not a claim about any student's age, grade level, or rate of progress —

the tracker has a blank line for your own district's criterion.