Meg and Greg: A Duck in a Sock

Meg and Greg: A Duck in a Sock — page 3 — 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

Meg and Greg: A Duck in a Sock — page 4 — 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

Meg and Greg: A Duck in a Sock — page 5 — This story introduces ck as in dock and flick The letter combination phonogram ck is one way in English to spell the sound k Other ways are c cat k kite ch echo and que antique Since the first two are basic consonants they appear in this story The second two are not included in the kid's text in this story The main thing to know about ck is that it only ever comes immediately after a short vowel as in the words blåck pěck lick rock and truck There are a few exceptions where k is not spelled ck even after a short vowel like panic and trek We are careful not to use exceptions This story focuses on words with the sound k spelled with ck 10

Meg and Greg: A Duck in a Sock — page 6 — A Duck a Sock in A story featuring stick ck Rocket bucket duck

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