Children's Nonfiction Beginner
Meg and Greg: A Handful of Dogs
- Publisher
- Orca Book Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2024
- Category
- Beginner, Vocabulary & Spelling, Sounds, Word Games
- Recommended Age
- 6 to 8
- Recommended Grade
- 1 to 3
- Recommended Reading age
- 6 to 8
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781459838239
- Publish Date
- Aug 2024
- List Price
- $16.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459838253
- Publish Date
- Aug 2024
- List Price
- $13.99
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Description
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!
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.
Editorial Reviews
“The ‘Meg and Greg’ series continue to deliver valuable phonics instruction through engaging stories. The series offers a rare and much-needed resource for children with dyslexia. 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”
School Library Journal (SLJ) Series Made Simple
“Meg and Greg find themselves faced with a variety of exciting and, at times, funny problems. The four story format with five chapters in each story provides a flow to the reading and adds interest and suspense, [and] co-authors Elspeth Rae and Rowena Rae incorporate a number of reading features in this learning experience geared to striving readers with language-based learning challenges...Once the format is explained to the child and proficient reading partner, A Handful of Dogs will provide a fun, engaging reading adventure for both. Highly recommended.”
CM: Canadian Review of Materials
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How Humans Beat Infectious Diseases
Meg and Greg: Scarlet and the Ring
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Meg and Greg: The Bake Sale
Meg and Greg: Frank and the Skunk
Meg and Greg: A Duck in a Sock
Chemical World
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