"This partially illustrated workbook, meant to be read by an advanced reader with a beginner reader or struggling reader, combines stories and exercises that focus on phonics."--

A kit of materials designed to help children learn to read.

Provides a series of simple accounts of animal anatomy and behavior for beginning readers to practice their ability to see the relationship between cause and effect.

Provides a series of simple accounts of animal anatomy and behavior for beginning readers to practice their ability to find meaning in what they read.

Kids will: know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words both in isolation and in text; attain a basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sounds or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant; associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels; identify which letters represent the five major vowels; and more.

"Set 8: Long Vowels and Reading for Fluency, with this set, children will begin to 1) recognize varied long vowel sounds and word families, 2) blend long vowel word families with initial consonants and digraphs, and 3) read more complex sentences with many sight words and varied long vowel sounds for meaning"--