Hantu <oo>

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Creative Commons BY-NC Adapted from "It's a Ghost!" by Chandan Yadav and Kaustubh Kamat. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Free Fantasy Decodable Reader with 'oo' Words | Hantu

Practice Words

Words with the 'oo' vowel team, making either /uː/ as in 'food' or /ʊ/ as in 'good'.

spook mood moon
Page 1
A black skeletal ghost figure with red and white bones, multiple eyes, and wild red tentacle hair dances against a brown swirled background.

This is a hantu. He is a spook and he is in the mood to scare.

Page 2
Three panels show the ghost chasing a white dog at night, scaring a man with pots, and frightening a boy on his bicycle.

Zoom! He runs after the dog to scare him. He scared the man with his pots. He scares the little boy.

Page 3
The ghost pops up with arms spread wide to scare a startled black lion with a red mane against a dark night sky.

He is in such a mood, he pops up to scare the lion.

Page 4
The ghost with tentacle hair chases a frightened black elephant across green hills as birds fly away.

No one is safe when he is in the mood to scare.

Page 5
The ghost hangs from a spooky tree, scaring a muscular man who drops his weights and runs away at night.

Not the big man.

Page 6
The ghost rises from the ground to scare a guard in uniform and a prisoner in stripes near a prison gate.

Not the guard with the gun.

Page 7
Silhouettes of the ghost chasing people and an elephant across a hillside with a giant full moon in the background.

The moon is up and the spook will chase and chase when he is in the mood.

Page 8
Close-up of the ghost looking sad and bored with drooping tentacles and crossed arms against a green background.

Then the mood left the hantu. This spook is not in the mood to spook.

Page 9
The ghost walks sadly through a desert landscape with drooping hair and slumped shoulders, not in the mood to scare.

He will have to try hard when he is not in the mood. He feels like it is his job to scare.

Page 10
The ghost peeks over grass at a small blue mouse house with round windows while a mouse waves from the doorway.

He went to find some one who would not be hard to scare and he saw the house of the mouse.

Page 11
A brown mouse in polka-dot pajamas sleeps peacefully in a white bed with moonlight streaming through the window.

In his bed, the mouse sleeps. He will not be hard to scare.

Page 12
Close-up of the ghost's black legs and feet stomping on the ground with motion lines indicating loud banging.

The hantu starts to drum with his feet. Bang! Bang! Bang!

Page 13
The brown mouse sits shaking on the bed clutching a blanket with wide spiral eyes, startled awake and scared.

The mouse shakes. He is scared.

Page 14
The ghost makes a scary face with sharp teeth against a red background, arms raised with clawed hands.

I am a hantu! I am a spook and I am in the mood to scare... YOU!

Page 15
The brown mouse stands confidently with hands on hips beside the bed, smiling and unafraid of the ghost.

Oh a hantu? You are just a spook, not a cat. A spook will not scare me!

Page 16
The ghost shrugs with a sad double-mouthed frown while the mouse waves from the doorway of its house, unbothered.

This must not be my day to spook.

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