Meg and Greg: The Bake Sale

Meg and Greg: The Bake Sale

Author: Elspeth Rae

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2021-08-17

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1459824989

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Key Selling Points This decodable book includes features to accommodate struggling 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 struggling readers ages six to nine, The Bake Sale 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 with dyslexia and other language-based learning difficulties. She is currently a literacy specialist teaching reading, spelling and writing to children ages five to thirteen. Co-author Elspeth Rae was diagnosed with dyslexia when she was eight years old. This is the third book in a series. The first two introduced the phonograms (a letter or combination of letters that represent a sound) ck, sh, ch, th and nk, ng, tch, dge. This book introduces the silent “magic” e: a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e and u-e.


Meg and Greg: A Duck in a Sock

Meg and Greg: A Duck in a Sock

Author: Elspeth Rae

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2020-04-07

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 145982492X

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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.


A Duck in a Sock

A Duck in a Sock

Author: Elspeth Rae

Publisher: 44 Sounds Publishing / Two Read Books

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9780995293304

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Meg & Greg: A Duck in a Sock includes four short-chapter, hi-lo, phonics stories written for children ages 6-9 who are struggling to learn how to read because of dyslexia or another language-based learning difficulty. The stories are written for shared reading between an experienced reader and a learner. The parts of the story for the learning reader have carefully controlled vocabulary and spellings, and they follow a phonics approach. The experienced reader's text helps to keep the story interesting and engaging for kids ages 6-9. In these stories, best friends Meg and Greg, both 10 years old, get up to all sorts of adventures involving animals. Jump inside the book to join in! Elspeth Rae is a certified Orton Gillingham teacher for children with dyslexia and other language-based learning difficulties. She runs the 44 Sounds Orton Gillingham Learning Studio where she teaches reading, spelling, and writing to children ages 4-12. She lives with her husband and three children in Vancouver, BC. Rowena Rae has an M.A. in science writing and two biology degrees. She works as a freelance editor and children's writer. She has written science and nature articles for a children's magazine, Yes Mag, and writes nonfiction books. She lives with her two children in Victoria, BC. Elisa GutiÉrrez is an award-winning book designer and illustrator. She is author/illustrator of Picturescape and Letter Lunch, the first of which was shortlisted for a BC Books Prize. She lives with her husband and two children in Vancouver, BC.


Easy-Bake Oven: Ronald Howes

Easy-Bake Oven: Ronald Howes

Author: Jessica Rusick

Publisher: ABDO

Published: 2021-12-15

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1098219236

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In this title, readers will learn about the creator of Easy-Bake Oven, Ronald Howes. Follow his story from his service in World War II, to an engineering degree from the University of Cincinnati, to his employment at Kenner where he created the Easy-Bake Oven. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.


Sparks! Future Purrfect: A Graphic Novel (Sparks! #3)

Sparks! Future Purrfect: A Graphic Novel (Sparks! #3)

Author: Ian Boothby

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2022-04-05

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1338783718

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Charlie and August go on vacation, but trouble always finds them! Charlie and August, the kitty duo who control the incredible Sparks costume, are exhausted. It's hard work saving people all the time! So what better way to relax than to get away to a beautiful tropical island? But when weird things start to happen and they discover that the island holds a surprising secret, they're blasted off on their craziest adventure ever. And this time they have to save themselves!


Upstream, Downstream

Upstream, Downstream

Author: Rowena Rae

Publisher: Orca Footprints

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781459823921

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Part of the nonfiction Orca Footprints series for middle-grade readers, this book examines our relationships with watersheds and what we need to do to protect them for future generations.


Meg and Greg: Scarlet and the Ring

Meg and Greg: Scarlet and the Ring

Author: Elspeth Rae

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2023-02-14

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1459825012

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A decodable book featuring four phonics stories specially designed to help children with dyslexia or other language-based learning difficulties find reading success. While Meg and Greg are visiting Greg’s family on Stardust Island they find themselves searching for one lost or missing item after another! Join Meg, Greg, cousin Martha and a puppy named Scarlet as they discover the thief who took off with a precious garnet ring at a farmers’ market, find and catch a horse named Popcorn who got lost in a forest, save a surfer who fell from his board and got badly hurt and chase an escaped teddy bear dangling from a helium balloon at a fun fair. Meg and Greg: Scarlet and the Ring is the fourth 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 focus on words with r-controlled vowels. For the first time in the series, readers will also be introduced to multiple spellings for a single sound. Praise for the Meg and Greg series: “A thoughtfully designed storybook adds another helpful tool to the box for readers who need support.” —Kirkus for Frank and the Skunk “A unique approach to high-interest texts for reluctant burgeoning readers, this book offers phonics fun wrapped in serious research-based success.” —School Library Journal for A Duck in a Sock “The stories offer both flashes of humor and plenty of action to drive the instructional intent.” —Booklist for A Duck in a Sock


The Everything Store

The Everything Store

Author: Brad Stone

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2013-10-15

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 0316219258

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The authoritative account of the rise of Amazon and its intensely driven founder, Jeff Bezos, praised by the Seattle Times as "the definitive account of how a tech icon came to life." Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now. Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, giving readers the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. Compared to tech's other elite innovators -- Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg -- Bezos is a private man. But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing. The Everything Store is the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read.


Meg and Greg: A Handful of Dogs

Meg and Greg: A Handful of Dogs

Author: Elspeth Rae

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2024-08-13

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1459838254

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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!