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. Key Selling Points - This decodable book includes features to accommodate striving or dyslexic readers, such as comic-book-style illustrations, a dyslexia-friendly typeface with ample spacing, and shaded paper to reduce contrast between text and paper-all of which make this series more accessible. - Targeted at striving readers in grades two to four, ages six to nine, the Meg and Greg series has a wide appeal to ELL readers, reluctant readers and at-level readers alike with its engaging and age-appropriate plots and low reading level that doesn't demoralize or stigmatize struggling readers. - Includes explanations of tricky words, activities to practice reading and spelling long vowels, a guide to using the Meg and Greg books, and a glossary. - The Meg and Greg series has been included on The Reading League's Decodable Text Resources Listing - Co-author Elspeth Rae was diagnosed with dyslexia when she was eight years old. She is now a teacher certified in using the Orton-Gillingham approach to teach children of all abilities to read and spell, and she especially enjoys working with children with dyslexia and other language-based learning difficulties. In the sixth book in the phonics-based, decodable Meg and Greg series, Meg and Greg are on vacation in four stories that introduce readers to long vowels. Includes illustrations and worksheets. 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. Specially designed for shared reading, the Meg and Greg decodable books help children of all abilities overcome language-based learning difficulties and achieve reading success. 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,

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