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
All the stories in this book introduce words that use a silent magic e The purpose of the magic e which occurs at the end of a word and stays silent not pronounced is to indicate that the previous vowel is pronounced with a long sound Consider the difference between măd short vowel sound and māde long vowel sound One way to help your child read a silent magic e word is this Write a word such as made on a scrap of paper Cross out the e to show that it is silent made Next draw an arrow to show that the silent e jumps backward to the previous vowel made Last draw a horizontal line over that previous vowel to show that it says its name made Most of the time the silent magic e jumps backward over only one consonant to the previous vowel However in a few words it jumps backward over the blend st or the digraph th For example waste paste bathe The silent e has several other jobs too These are described on page 152 This story focuses on a-e words as in bāke and e-e words such as thēse There are more a-e words than e-e words in this story simply because very few e-e words exist in English It also includes the eight phonograms introduced in Meg and Greg Book 1 ck sh ch th and Book 2 nk ng tch dge For a list of a-e and e-e words including all the ones used in this story go to orcatworead com 10
the bake sale A story featuring a-e and e-e gate pete bake sale 11 a-e e-e
