Description: Meet Luca and his love of dinosaurs in this Little Blossom Stories title. Readers will build word knowledge by learning the suffix -ous as they apply their phonics skills to decode multisyllabic words with familiar word parts. The Little Blossom Stories decodable series uses compelling fiction with an authentic narrative arc to build key reading skills. Each book includes sequenced sound/spelling patterns, a repetition of sight words, and comprehensive word lists to support teaching. Vibrant original illustrations bring characters to life and enrich children's earliest reading experiences.
Brief description: Elizabeth Scully has been a classroom teacher and reading specialist for 20 years in Western New York. A graduate of Cornell University, she continued her studies in Language and Literacy at Harvard University. She is a trained Reading Recovery teacher and certified at the Associate Level with the Orton-Gillingham Academy. When she is not crafting stories about the animals in her life, Elizabeth is busy trundling her family of boys around town.