Children's Nonfiction Beginner
Meg and Greg: A Duck in a Sock
- Publisher
- Orca Book Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2020
- Category
- Beginner, Sounds, Words (see also headings under Language Arts), Vocabulary & Spelling, Word Games
- Recommended Age
- 6 to 8
- Recommended Grade
- 1 to 3
- Recommended Reading age
- 6 to 8
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459824928
- Publish Date
- Apr 2020
- List Price
- $13.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781459824904
- Publish Date
- Apr 2020
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
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.
About the authors
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 with her husband and three children.
Rowena Rae worked as a biologist specializing in aquatic ecosystems in Canada and New Zealand before becoming a freelance writer, editor and children’s author. She is the author of Rachel Carson and Ecology for Kids, as well as Chemical World and Upstream, Downstream in the Orca Footprints line. 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 now lives in Vancouver.
Awards
- Commended, CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens, starred selection
Editorial Reviews
“This primer should appeal to phonics stalwarts and phonics learners...Art, drawn in a heavy ink line, helps readers focus on labeled objects and voice-balloon content.”
Publishers Weekly
“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
“Brings new energy to the task of learning to read.”
Kirkus Reviews
“The stories offer both flashes of humor and plenty of action to drive the instructional intent.”
Booklist
“There are many books focusing on leveled reading, but Meg and Greg: A Duck in a Sock is a series with a difference...The sharing of the reading between an experienced reader and the child allows for the inclusion of more complex text on the buddy reader's page and a lower reading level with a phonogram focus on the kid's page. This allows for a richer reading experience and a guided learning experience for the child. Highly Recommended.”
CM: Canadian Review of Materials
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Other titles by
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Meg and Greg: A Handful of Dogs
Why We Need Vaccines
How Humans Beat Infectious Diseases
Meg and Greg: Scarlet and the Ring
Salmon
Swimming for Survival
Upstream, Downstream
Exploring Watershed Connections
Meg and Greg: The Bake Sale
Meg and Greg: Frank and the Skunk
Chemical World
Science in Our Daily Lives
