The Big Pig: PreK/K: Book 9

by Dona Herweck Rice, Carlos Salto (Illustrator)

Overview

Make learning to read fun for children with this decodable fiction book about one big pig! This book offers a built-in phonics review for beginning readers. Today, students need help learning how to read more than ever before. This illustrated book will excite and engage young readers while they gain practice with several high-frequency words: a, can, in, is, see, this, we. Each book includes family engagement activities to extend phonics learning and has a specific phonics focus. Book 9 covers short i, b, c, g, and l. Develop foundational reading skills with the research-based approach to phonics instruction used in this book!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798765942611
Publisher:	Teacher Created
Publication date:	07/03/2023
Series:	Decodable Books: Read & Succeed
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	16
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	3 - 9 Years

About the Author

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Dona Herweck Rice is the prolific author of books, stories, and poems for children of all ages. She’s written hundreds of books and more on just about every topic under the sun, from acrobats to zucchini and everything in between. She has also written award-winning books and curriculums for educators, especially on the subjects of writing and language arts. In fact, her first publications were a series for teachers on how to teach writing in the classroom. She spearheaded the development of Write TIME for Kids, which earned the Golden Lamp award for curriculum from the Association of American Publishers. Her writing is featured heavily in such acclaimed series as Focused Phonics, Untold Stories, Fiction Readers, Nonfiction Readers, Learn and Create, and more.

Dona’s best-selling children’s title with more than 13,000 copies is How Plants Grow, and her most recent titles include dozens of books for the Exploration Storytime series, two titles in the Curious Me!™ board book series, and Ride with Rampage in partnership with the Los Angeles Rams. When Dona visits classrooms to talk about being an author, the most requested titles include History’s Mysteries, Bad Guys and Gals of the Wild West, and Oh, Rats!––the latter being one of Dona’s particular favorites.

Dona is the creator of Cam E. Chameleon, the enchanting little reptile featured in her books The Adventures of Cam E. Chameleon and Cam and Sam’s Colorful Adventure. Observant readers can also find Cam singing and dancing throughout the illustrated retelling of If You’re Happy and You Know It.

Writing is Dona’s passion, but she also loves reading, live theater, and handmade arts and crafts, with many artists and creatives in all mediums among her extended family. Dona was a preschool and middle school teacher and is an acting coach for all ages. She lives in southern California with her husband, son, and one cute, silly, and loveable little dog.

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