Contents 8 How to read the stories in this book 11 A Duck in a Sock 12 Chapter 1 The Duck Pond 18 Chapter 2 On the Dock 24 Chapter 3 A Snug Duck 32 Chapter 4 Rocket and the Big Dog 38 Chapter 5 A Duck and a Dog in Luck 48 Activities to practice ck 51 Swish the Pet Fish 52 Chapter 1 Fish in a Dish 60 Chapter 2 Fred's Fish Shop 66 Chapter 3 The Cost of a Fish 72 Chapter 4 Splish Splash 78 84 Chapter 5 Swish and Swish Activities to practice sh 87 At Chapman Ranch 88 Chapter 1 Up a Hill and Back 94 Chapter 2 Back to the Ranch 100 Chapter 3 Chickens Can't Jump 106 Chapter 4 Meg's Plan 112 Chapter 5 Greg Steps Up 118 Chapter 6 Hilltop Ranch at Last 124 Activities to practice ch 127 Get That Sloth 128 Chapter 1 The Amazon Sloth 134 Chapter 2 Sam the Sloth Gets Wet 140 Chapter 3 Get That Sloth 146 Chapter 4 A Sloth in a Cloth 152 Chapter 5 Back to the Amazon 158 Activities to practice th 160 Glossary 162 About the Meg and Greg stories 166 About the authors and illustrator 167 Acknowledgments
Rocket stick bucket peck peck the to read How stories in book this Adult or buddy reader's text Chapter The Duck Pond Meg and her best friend Greg loved going to their local park Meg always brought birdseed as snacks to feed the ducks at the pond Greg always brought his dog Rocket and threw sticks for him to fetch Meg fed snacks to the ducks Greg held a big stick stick ducks Kid's text Rocket OK Rocket Pick it up and run back to me Meg and Greg is a series of decodable 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 162 8
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 The stories in this book introduce the phonograms ck sh ch th The stories also use a few common words that can be tricky to sound out listed to the right The child you're reading with may need help with them We recommend writing the words on a card that can double as a bookmark If you're curious about why these common words can sometimes be tricky to read flip to page 165 Warning These words look little but sometimes they can be tricky to read a as has is his of the do to I be he me she we OK 9
