The Best Tube (Open syllable)

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Free Fantasy Decodable Reader with Suffixes | The Best Tube

Practice Words

Two-syllable words with an open first syllable ending in a long vowel sound.

lila ideas details opens
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Girl in checkered pants standing in art studio with shelves of supplies, easel, black cat, and stairs below

Lila is an artist. She has a workshop where she paints on canvas. Lila has different types of paint, but she likes her tubes of watercolours the best.

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Collection of paint tubes scattered with small figures including yellow paint tube character and girl carrying boxes

The yellow tube has not been used yet. The other tubes in the box have been squashed and squeezed. It does not want to look like that.

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Colorful patchwork quilt pattern with blue, red striped, and yellow patches featuring fish bone stitching design

Lila is set to start. She pulls out the canvas that she has been working on. She looks out of the window to get some ideas.

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Delicate watercolor tree branches with lush green leaves spreading across soft white background

She starts with some trees that bend and sway in the wind. She draws the branches of the trees with a curve so that we can see how they move.

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Whimsical figures in white flowing forms holding checkered umbrella in rain with green birds flying overhead

She paints people in the sky from puffs of cloud. They are up there with the birds. It is going to rain up where they live.

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Ethereal fairy-like figure with flowing dark hair among pink and red flowers with delicate swirling vines

She paints a little sprite that lives in the flowers and the vines. The sprite has a flower on her head. Lila uses red and pink for the flowers.

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Dreamlike scene with figures by blue water, red dragonfly, and droplets falling from dark hair into rippling pool

She paints a girl having a nap by a river. She paints rabbits, dragonflies and elephants. Can you see all of these animals?

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Girl in checkered pants sitting in dreamy blue room with cat playing yarn and glowing lamp nearby

Lila takes a break so that she can think. The house is quite dark. What is that coming through the window?

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Warm sepia-toned village rooftops with various buildings, a cat silhouette, and colorful patterned tree

She opens up the windows. Light comes into the room. She looks out at the town and sees how the light hits houses and trees.

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Girl in checkered skirt searching through stacked books while small paint tube figures with ladder watch below

She has a chat to yellow about why it is worried. She tells yellow that if it is used in her art, it will be there for all time.

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Girl painting magical autumn landscape bursting from canvas with orange trees and two children running through

Yellow is so glad that it chose to be in the art. It has brought out the details, and the whole tone is bright and fun.

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