Author Description

"This series was designed to build a solid foundation for young readers as they immerse themselves in learning the relationship between letter sounds and the words they create. The goal is to develop reading competence through phonics while building word knowledge and improving fluency. In this book, the worksheets include the following sound-related activities to improve letter-sound knowledge and to make links between newer, more complex words: Comparing long and short vowel sounds; exploring beginning and ending blends and digraphs, and ending trigraphs; examining long vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, and unique vowel sounds; expanding on strategies used to decode new, more complex words; discovering multi-syllable words, compound words, prefixes, and inflectional endings "--Page 4 of cover.