In the fifth book in the phonics-based, decodable Meg and Greg series, Meg and Greg are back at school for new adventures with friends in four stories that introduce readers to suffixes and prefixes. Includes illustrations and worksheets. Decodable phonics-based stories with suffixes and prefixes!
A decodable book featuring four phonics stories for striving readers, with special features to help children with dyslexia or other language-based learning difficulties find reading success.
Meg and Greg are back to school and ready for fall fun! Join Meg, Greg and friends as they plan an event for dogs at the fall fair, solve challenging clues in a scavenger hunt, complete their planned science-fair project and look after excitable kindergarteners at the pumpkin patch.
Meg and Greg: A Handful of Dogs is the fifth book in the Meg and Greg series designed for shared reading between a child learning to read and an experienced reader. The four stories inside introduce different types of suffixes and prefixes (consonant suffixes -ful -ly -ment -s, vowel suffixes -en -er -es -est -ing -y, the suffix -ed and prefixes de- dis- ex- in- pre- re- un-) and the spelling rules for adding them to base words. In addition to the familiar comic-style kids' pages, Book 5 features new highly controlled and decodable prose pages to gently increase the amount of text that readers experience and to provide even more opportunities to practice the reading skills previously introduced in Meg and Greg Books 1–4!
Key Selling Points
• This decodable book includes features to accommodate striving or dyslexic readers, such as comic-book-style illustrations, a dyslexia-friendly typeface with ample spacing, and shaded paper to reduce contrast between text and paper-all of which make this series more accessible.
• Targeted at striving readers in grades two to four, ages six to nine, the Meg and Greg series has a wide appeal to ELL readers, reluctant readers and at-level readers alike with its engaging and age-appropriate plots and low reading level that doesn't demoralize or stigmatize struggling readers.
• Co-author Elspeth Rae is a teacher certified in using the Orton-Gillingham approach to teach children of all abilities to read and spell, and she especially enjoys working with children with dyslexia and other language-based learning difficulties. She is currently a literacy specialist teaching children ages five to thirteen.
• Elspeth Rae was diagnosed with dyslexia when she was eight years old.
• Includes explanations of the rules of adding suffixes and prefixes to words, activities to practice suffixes and prefixes, a guide to using the Meg and Greg books, and a glossary.
Specially designed for shared reading, the Meg and Greg decodable books help children of all abilities overcome language-based learning difficulties and achieve reading success.
Elspeth Rae has a BEd from Simon Fraser University and is a teacher certified in using the Orton-Gillingham approach to teach children of all abilities to read and spell. She especially enjoys working with children with dyslexia and other language-learning difficulties. Elspeth was diagnosed with dyslexia at age eight and received Orton-Gillingham instruction during her school years. She works as a literacy specialist in the public school system and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her husband and three children.
Rowena Rae worked as a biologist in Canada and New Zealand before taking an MA in writing at Johns Hopkins University and then becoming a freelance writer and editor and a children's author. She is the author of Why We Need Vaccines, the award-winning Salmon in the Orca Wild series, Chemical World and Upstream, Downstream in the Orca Footprints series. Rowena writes both fiction and nonfiction from her home in Victoria, British Columbia, which she shares with her two book-loving children.
Elisa Gutiérrez is an award-winning designer, author and il
