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The Bake Sale

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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 off on a series of summer adventures around their neighborhood, along with some four-legged companions. The two friends pull off a bake sale despite back-to-back disasters in the preparations, save the day for Greg's mom when her ballet studio floods, rescue the neighbor's dog after he slips down a slope into a cove, and discover a lost cat with newborn kittens sheltering in a dangerous spot in the garden.

Meg and Greg: The Bake Sale is the third book in the Meg and Greg series designed for shared reading between a child learning to read or struggling to read and an experienced reader, following Frank and the Skunk and A Duck in a Sock. Inside you'll find four stories that introduce one new phonogram (a letter or combination of letters that represent a sound) in each story. This book focuses on the "magic e": a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, and u-e phonograms. The stories have special features to help a child with dyslexia or another language-based learning difficulty find reading success.


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



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    • School Library Journal

      March 1, 2022

      Gr 1-4-In four short phonics stories, friends Meg and Greg hold a bake sale, ride bikes, rope climb in a cove, and help June, a cute cat. What makes this series unique is its combination of a themed phonics reader narrative and a dual-reader level format. Each book focuses on one phonogram. This third entry introduces the "long vowel and silent e" concept using vocabulary (sale, ride, rope, cute) which demonstrates that phonogram and builds on skills introduced in previous titles. The left page is for the accomplished reader; the right is for the child learning to read and tells the story through comic-style illustrations providing textual clues and a simple narrative. Meg and Greg's high-interest adventures will engage older readers struggling with decoding or dyslexia. Practical tips, reading strategies, games, and exercises accompanying each story add a valuable instructional component. VERDICT Fills a void in resources for emerging readers; an essential purchase for school and public libraries.

      Copyright 2022 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • 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.

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  • OverDrive Read
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  • English

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  • Lexile® Measure:510
  • Text Difficulty:1-2

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