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by Eric Braun (Author), Julio Garza (Illustrator)
Make learning to read fun for children with this decodable fiction book about a man and his new cat friends! This book offers a built-in phonics review for early readers. Today, students need help learning how to read more than ever before. This illustrated book will engage and excite young readers while they gain practice with several high-frequency words: thing, where, who. Each book includes family engagement activities to extend phonics learning and has a specific phonics focus. Book 4 covers digraphs such as ck and th. Develop foundational reading skills with the research-based approach to phonics instruction used in this book!
Author Biography
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.
