read to How Adult or buddy reader's text the stories in book this Kid's text Chapter 1 The Prank Meg and Greg stood in line to get their cabin numbers at Camp Nut Hatch I'm so excited that we get to stay at camp for two weeks this year Meg said Greg nodded Me too One week is way too short At last Meg and Greg reached the front of the line The camp leader named Hank was checking everyone in Hi Meg Welcome back You're in cabin four the Mad Mink Meg whooped Yes That's the best cabin Next Hank turned to Greg Hi Greg Great to see you again this summer You're in cabin nine the Chill Chipmunk Greg got his backpack Let's get to the cabins Meg Will you get a top bunk if you can Yes I think I will Will you You bet 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 153 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 phonograms ck sh ch th introduced in Meg and Greg Book 1 The stories in this book introduce the phonograms Warning These words look little but they can be tricky to read a as has is his of the nk ng tch dge 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 what makes these common words tricky to read flip to pages 150-151 9 do to I be he me she we OK New for this book have give you all family ball small etc.
This story introduces nk as in blink and sank The letter combination phonogram nk is the only way in English to spell the nk sound The phonogram nk makes a single sound that is very different from the individual sounds of the letters n and k Try making the sounds n k and nk and notice how the position of your tongue differs for each one It's quite difficult to pronounce nk without a preceding vowel Try ank ink onk unk bank sink honk bunk English doesn't have words ending with enk This story focuses on words with the sound nk spelled with nk It also includes the four phonograms introduced in Meg and Greg Book 1 ck sh ch th For a list of nk words including all the ones used in this story go to megandgregbooks.com 10
Frank and the Skunk A story featuring nk Frank stink skunk
