meg and greg the bake sale with a-e i-e o-e u-e four Phonics stories Written by Elspeth Rae and Rowena Rae Illustrated by Elisa Gutiérrez orca two read orca book Publishers
How to read the stories in this book Kid's text Adult or buddy reader's text A bake I have to make a bit of cash sale Why chapter 1 Let's Bake Cosh Yes We can sell cupcakes and lemonade Hang on Meg Just tell me Con you help me with a bake sale Meg opened the gate from her backyard and ran to Greg's house Knock knockl Rocket barked and then Greg opened the door Greg Meg said Teed your helpl With what Meg Greg asked Abake sale she said I need to holda bake sale right now This instant OK OK but tell me why I have a problem Meg and Greg is a series of phonics storybooks for children ages 6 to 9 who are struggling to learn how to read because of dyslexia or another language based learning difficulty The stories are designed for a child and an experienced reader to share the reading as shown in the diagram above A child feeling overwhelmed at reading sentences could start by reading only the illustration labels More about this approach is on page 153 8
What is included in these stories The stories in this book are for a child who is familiar with all the basic consonant sounds including consonant blends short vowel sounds and the eight phonograms introduced in Meg and Greg Book 1 ck sh ch th and Book 2 nk ng tch dge The stories in this book focus on words that use a silent magic e to indicate that the previous vowel is pronounced with its long sound The stories introduce words with a silent magic e in this order a-e and e-e make eve i-e time o-e bone u-e cute The stories also use a few common words that can be tricky to sound out see the list to the right The child you’re reading with may need help with these tricky words each time they encounter them See pages 150-151 for more information Longer Words Look out for a few words with multiple syllables Be ready to help your child break them into individual syllables For example al-pine and lem-on-ade Words ending se Also look out for words ending with the letters se The s is often pronounced with a z sound For example vase these rise nose use 9 Warning These words can be tricky to read a as has is his of the do to I OK you be he me she we have give all family ball small etc New for this book what when where which Five common wh words why pronounced w
