Meg and Greg - A Handful of Dogs: Book 5, Four Phonic Stories

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!

"Meg and Greg find themselves faced with a variety of exciting and, at times, funny problems. The four story format with five chapters in each story provides a flow to the reading and adds interest and suspense, [and] co-authors Elspeth Rae and Rowena Rae incorporate a number of reading features in this learning experience geared to striving readers with language-based learning challenges...Once the format is explained to the child and proficient reading partner, A Handful of Dogs will provide a fun, engaging reading adventure for both. Highly recommended."
- CM: Canadian Review of Materials