A Handful of Dogs

By Elspeth Rae, Rowena Rae, Elisa Gutiérrez (Illustrator)

Part of the Meg and Greg series

Join school adventures with Meg and Greg, solving mysteries and learning language tricks.

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160 pages· 8,195 words· Est. 1.5 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Meg and Greg return to school, diving into fall adventures with friends. From organizing a dog event at the fair to solving scavenger hunt clues, they face exciting challenges. As they tackle a science project and manage lively kindergarteners at the pumpkin patch, readers explore suffixes and prefixes through engaging stories. Will they succeed in their tasks while mastering new language skills? Discover the fun and learning in this phonics-based journey.

From the publisher

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!

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