The Hot Day - (Decodable Books: Read & Succeed) by Eric Braun (Paperback)

About the Book

What can Meg and Sam do on such a hot day? Find out in this decodable book, which covers phonics and phonemic awareness concepts for young readers. Students engage with high-frequency words and build reading comprehension with this fiction book.

Book Synopsis

Make learning to read fun for children with this decodable fiction book about what Meg and Sam do on a very hot day! This book provides a built-in phonics review for young readers. Today, students need help with phonics concepts more than ever before. This illustrated book will excite and engage young readers while they gain practice with several high-frequency words: begin, cut, move, once, page. Each book includes family engagement activities to extend phonics learning and has a specific phonics focus. Book 1 covers short vowels and consonants that make more than one sound. Build important reading skills and reading comprehension with the research-based approach to phonics instruction used in this book!

About the Author

Eric Braun is a children's author and editor who has written dozens of books on many topics, including Make a Friend, Be a Friend and Be Yourself, Like Yourself for the Little Laugh & Learn(R) series and How to Take the ACHE Out of Mistakes and How to Take the GROAN Out of Grown-Ups for the Laugh & Learn(R) series. His books have won awards and honors including the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, a Foreword Book of the Year Gold Award, a Benjamin Franklin Award, and many others. One of his books was read by an astronaut on the International Space Station for kids on Earth to watch. A McKnight Artist Fellow and an Aspen Summer Words scholar for his fiction, Eric earned an MFA in creative writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato. He lives in Minneapolis.