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Meg and Greg: A Duck in a Sock

Elspeth Rae, Rowena Rae, Elisa Gutiérrez

Series:

Meg and Greg 1

Type:

Non-Fiction

Categories:

Concepts | Language Arts | Games & Activities | Readers

Themes:

Sounds, Vocabulary & Spelling, Word Games, Words, Beginner

Language:

English

Publisher:

Orca Book Publishers

Grade Level:

1-3

Age Range:

6-8

Where to buy it

Indigo

Description

This workbook combines stories and exercises that focus on phonics.

A decodable book featuring four phonics stories specially designed to help children of all abilities overcome language-based learning difficulties.

Meg and Greg are hanging out for the summer doing what ten-year-olds do—helping an injured duckling, finding a lost pet fish, saving ranch animals from a wildfire and catching a wandering sloth!

A Duck in a Sock is the first book in the Meg and Greg series designed for shared reading between a child learning to read and an experienced reader. Inside you'll find four stories that introduce one new phonogram (a letter or combination of letters that represent a sound) in each story: the ck, sh, ch and th phonograms. Each story builds on the previous ones by including words with the phonograms already introduced. In addition, the series has special features to help a child with dyslexia or another language-based learning difficulty achieve reading success.

Contributors

Elspeth Rae has a BEd from Simon Fraser University and is a certified Orton-Gillingham teacher for 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. As a certified teacher, she works as a literacy specialist in the public school system, where she teaches reading, spelling and writing to children ages five to thirteen. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with her family.

Rowena Rae worked as a biologist in Canada and New Zealand before becoming a freelance writer and editor and a children’s author. She is the author of Chemical World and Upstream, Downstream in the Orca Footprints series, and co-author of the Meg and Greg series. Rowena writes both fiction and nonfiction from her home in Victoria, British Columbia.

Elisa Gutiérrez is an award-winning designer, author and illustrator. Her book Picturescape was short-listed for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, was honored by the Alcuin Society and was the subject of a scholarly paper by the renowned Dr. Lawrence Sipe. Elisa has designed over 100 books and specializes in book design for children. Born and raised in Mexico City, Elisa lives in Vancouver.

Formats

ISBN13: 9781459824904

Publication Date: 04/14/2020

Price: $16.95 CAD

ISBN13: 9781459824928

Publication Date: 04/07/2020

Price: $12.99 CAD

ISBN13: 9781459824911

Publication Date: 04/07/2020

Price: $12.99 CAD

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Awards

CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens, starred selectionCommended

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