Brian P. Cleary - Whose Shoes Would You Choose?: A Long Vowel Sounds Book with Consonant Digraphs

to Miss Mac Ivor, my fifth- grade teacher in Rocky River, Ohio B. P. C. Text copyright 2009 by Brian P. Cleary Illustrations copyright 2009 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwisewithout the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review. Millbrook Press A division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 241 First Avenue North Minneapolis, MN 55401 U.S.A. Website address: www.lernerbooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cleary, Brian P., 1959 Whose shoes would you choose? : a long vowel sounds book with consonant digraphs / by Brian P.

Cleary ;illustrations by Jason Miskimins ; consultant: Alice M. Maday. p. cm. (Sounds like reading) ISBN 9780822576402 (lib. : alk. paper) 1. paper) 1.

English languageConsonantsJuvenile literature. 2. English languageVowelsJuvenile literature. 3. ReadingPhonetic method Juvenile literature. I.

Miskimins, Jason, ill. II. Maday, Alice M. III. Title. PE1159.C53 2009 428.1'3dc22 2008012767 Manufactured in the United States of America 2 PC 7/20/09

As a former adult literacy coach and the father of three children, I know that learning to read isnt always easy.

Thats why I developed Sounds Like Reading a series that uses a combination of devices to help children learn to read. This book is the sixth in the Sounds Like Reading series. It uses rhyme, repetition, illustration, and phonics to introduce young readers to long vowel sounds and consonant digraphs letter combinations that come together to create a new sound. These include combinations such as ch, sh, and th. Ive chosen to use a broad, inclusive definition of digraphs in this book, so youll also see combinations such as kn and wr. Starting on page 4, youll see three rhyming words on each left-hand page.

These words are part of the sentence on the facing page. They all feature long vowels and consonant digraphs. As the book progresses, the sentences become more challenging. These sentences contain a discovery wordan extra rhyming word in addition to those that appear on the left. The final sentence in the book contains two discovery words Children will delight in the increased confidence that finding and decoding these words will bring. Theyll also enjoy looking for the mouse that appears throughout the book.

The mouse asks readers to look for words that sound alike. The bridge to literacy is one of the most important we will ever cross. It is my hope that the Sounds Like Reading series will help young readers to hop, gallop, and skip from one side to the other!

Look for me to help you find the words that sound alike!