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Meg and Greg

A Handful of Dogs

#5 in series

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1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available

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!

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 9, 2020
      First in the Orca Two-Read line of books, dedicated to instructing emerging, dyslexic, and English-language learner readers, this primer should appeal to phonics stalwarts and phonics learners. Sisters Elspeth, a literary specialist, and Rowena, a former biologist, make their debut with a set of four elementary tales for kids to encounter with a more experienced reader. Each story, written in several short chapters, introduces the concept for advanced readers (“ck... comes immediately after a short vowel”), notes phonograms at play (“A Duck in a Sock: A Story Featuring ck”), and bolds words employing the sound for easy recognition (jacket, stick). Between tales, word games (“ck match-up”) emphasize the previous story’s takeaways. In the titular tale, Meg and Greg rescue an injured duckling from a stray dog, and “tuck the duck up in a sock” to visit the vet; the others imperil a slew of characters, each delivering tense moments before Meg and Greg save the day. Gutiérrez (Letter Lunch) creates orderly double spreads with illustrated prose on the verso and comics-style panels on the recto; her art, drawn in a heavy ink line, helps readers focus on labeled objects and voice-balloon content. Ages 6–9.

    • School Library Journal

      December 1, 2024

      Gr 2-4-The latest additions to the "Meg and Greg" series continue to deliver valuable phonics instruction through engaging stories, with one title focusing on suffixes and the other on long vowel sounds. Each book includes four five-chapter stories, designed to be read in tandem by an adult and a child. The left page presents a more complex narrative for the adult, while the right page features simpler, comic-style illustrations and text for the child. The use of a dyslexia-friendly typeface, ample spacing, and shaded paper reduces visual strain and makes the stories more accessible for readers with dyslexia. In one title, Meg and Greg embark on new school adventures with their friends, while the other takes them on vacation. Although independent readers might find the shared reading format limiting, the series offers a rare and much-needed resource for children with dyslexia. VERDICT The adult-child team reading approach is innovative and makes this series a valuable addition to any collection, particularly for libraries supporting diverse reading needs.

      Copyright 2024 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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