click Rocket train text read to How Adult buddy Adult or buddy reader's text the stories in book this Kid's text Chapter 1 Train to Cascade Springs Meg stood on her tiptoes I can see the train coming Meg and her mom April were waiting with Greg and Rocket at Ashton's train station Whoo-whoo Wow That was loud Greg said covering his ears Rocket wagged his tail as the train chugged into the station Greg turned to April Thank you for Inviting Rocket and me on holiday with you and Meg It's our pleasure Greg April replied Meg clapped her hands T'm excited to see Mount Cascade Me too Greg said And it's exciting that we're going by train Yes I trains That's lucky We are going to be on this train all day long Fun April can you take a snapshot of us to send to my mom and dad You bet Perhaps you can album of make an the holiday Meg and Greg is a series of decodable phonics storybooks for children ages 6 to 9 who are learning to read The stories are designed for shared reading between an experienced reader and a learning reader This is especially helpful for children who have the added challenge of dyslexia or another language-based learning difficulty A child feeling overwhelmed at reading sentences could start by reading only the illustration labels More about this approach is on page 153 8
9 149 Who are these stories decodable for The kid's text in this book is decodable by a child who knows basic consonant sounds consonant blends short vowel sounds digraphs ck sh ch th nk ng trigraphs tch dge magic e a e e e i e o e u e r-controlled vowels ar or er air sounds consonant suffixes ful ly ment s vowel suffixes ed en er es est ing y prefixes de dis ex in pre re un The stories in this book focus on spelling long vowel sounds long a ai ay a a e long e ee ea e y e e long i igh ild ind i y i e long ō oa ow old olt oll ost o o e long u ue ew u u e The stories also use a few common words that can be tricky to sound out listed to the right Find out more on pages 148 Warning These words look little but they can be tricky to read a as has is his of the do to OK have give you all family ball small etc. what when where which why was here said they your New for this book from some come their were
All the stories in this book introduce words that contain long vowel sounds Long vowel sounds are represented in English in several different ways These stories include the most common ways to spell them This story focuses on words with the long a, sound spelled with the vowel teams ai and ay the letter a ending an open syllable or the letter a and a magic e Vowel team ai Used at the beginning or middle of a syllable and often followed by the letters or n snail rain Vowel team ay Used at the end of a syllable play day crayon Letter a ending an open syllable An open syllable is one that ends with a single vowel table bacon basic Letter a with a magic e The magic e which occurs at the end of a word is silent and indicates that the previous vowel is pronounced with a long sound cake grape paste Magic e was first introduced in Book 3 For a list of long a words including all the ones used in this story go to megandgregbooks.com 10
3 4 Train Day A story featuring the long vowel sound wave a travel case backpack 11 long a
