Meg and Greg: Train Day! - Paperback

by Elspeth Rae (Author), Rowena Rae (Author), Elisa Gutiérrez (Illustrator)

★"Especially beneficial for children who thrive with interactive, multisensory learning experiences. With its approachable language, supportive visual aids, and engaging story lines, this book is highly recommended for any young reader who needs a little extra help on their reading journey."-- Booklist, starred review

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.

Join Meg, Greg and friends on vacation where they throw a birthday party on a train, rescue a sheep from a creek, volunteer for a wild night in the circus and compete in a rowboat race. Plus, take a peek at a few of Greg's vacation photos in a bonus mini story!

Meg and Greg: Train Day! is the sixth 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 (plus a bonus mini story!) introduce long vowels using vowel teams (long a: ai, ay, a, a-e; long e: ee, ea, e, y, e-e; long i: igh, ild, ind, i, y, i-e; long o: oa, ow, old, oll, olt, ost, o, o-e; long u: ue, ew, u, u-e). In addition to the familiar comic-style kids' pages, highly controlled and decodable prose pages gently increase the amount of text that readers experience and provide even more opportunities to practice the reading skills previously introduced in Meg and Greg Books 1-5.

Back Jacket

Decodable phonics-based stories with long vowels! Meg and Greg are going on vacation! Join Meg, Greg and friends as they throw a birthday party on a train, rescue a sheep from a creek, volunteer for a wild night in the circus and compete in a rowboat race. Plus, take a peek at a few of Greg's vacation photos in a bonus mini story!

Author Biography

Elspeth Rae has a BEd from Simon Fraser University and is a teacher certified in using the Orton-Gillingham approach to teach children of all abilities to read and spell. She especially enjoys working with 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. She works as a literacy specialist in the public school system and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her husband and three children.

Rowena Rae worked as a biologist in Canada and New Zealand before becoming a freelance writer and editor. She is the award-winning author of several nonfiction books for children, including Why We Need Vaccines, Salmon and Upstream, Downstream. Rowena writes both fiction and nonfiction from her home in Victoria, British Columbia, which she shares with her two book-loving children.