Children's Nonfiction Beginner
Meg and Greg: Train Day!
- Publisher
- Orca Book Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2025
- Category
- Beginner, Word Games, Sounds, Vocabulary & Spelling
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781459838260
- Publish Date
- Feb 2025
- List Price
- $16.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459838284
- Publish Date
- Feb 2025
- List Price
- $13.99
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 6 to 8
- Grade: 1 to 3
- Reading age: 6 to 8
Description
★“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.
About the authors
Elspeth Rae has a BEd from Simon Fraser University and is a certified Orton-Gillingham teacher for 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. As a certified teacher, she works as a literacy specialist in the public school system, where she teaches reading, spelling and writing to children ages five to thirteen. She lives in Vancouver with her husband and three children.
Rowena Rae worked as a biologist specializing in aquatic ecosystems in Canada and New Zealand before becoming a freelance writer, editor and children’s author. She is the author of Rachel Carson and Ecology for Kids, as well as Chemical World and Upstream, Downstream in the Orca Footprints line. Rowena writes both fiction and nonfiction from her home in Victoria, British Columbia.
Elisa Gutiérrez is an award-winning designer, author and illustrator. Her book Picturescape was short-listed for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, was honored by the Alcuin Society and was the subject of a scholarly paper by the renowned Dr. Lawrence Sipe. Elisa has designed over 100 books and specializes in book design for children. Born and raised in Mexico City, Elisa now lives in Vancouver.
Editorial Reviews
“While Meg and Greg: Train Day! is designed as a decodable book, the humour, the problem solving, and the variety of characters, together with entertaining graphics and the chapter book format, will appeal to all children in grades 2 to 4. Once the format is explained to the child and proficient reading partner, both readers will enjoy a fun, engaging reading journey together. Highly recommended.”
CM: Canadian Review of Materials
“The ‘Meg and Greg’ series continue to deliver valuable phonics instruction through engaging stories. The series offers a rare and much-needed resource for children with dyslexia. The adult-child team reading approach is innovative and makes this series a valuable addition to any collection, particularly for libraries supporting diverse reading needs”
School Library Journal (SLJ) Series Made Simple
★“A delightful and thoughtfully designed phonics-based storybook series…The story structure encourages cooperative reading, making it a fun, shared experience between a beginner and an experienced reader. The book’s design masterfully combines comic-book style visuals with simple, engaging narratives, making it easy for struggling readers to follow along and participate. This is 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
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