"The Science of Reading research proves that mastering phonics is a key to a child's success in learning to read. The twelve stories in this set build readers' phonics skills one tiny step at a time so their confidence stays high! Playful text and silly illustrations keep readers coming back for more. This collection is perfect for children who have never read Bob Books, or for children who have read Bob Books Beginning Readers or Bob Books More Beginning...

Provides a series of simple accounts of animal anatomy and behavior for beginning readers to practice their ability to see the relationship between cause and effect.

Set 5: Short vowels and reading for fluency includes 12 leveled storybooks featuring colorful animal characters, an activity sheet, and a classroom guide with suggestions for use. In Set 5, children will learn to: recognize varied short vowel sounds and word families, blend short vowel word families with initial consonants and digraphs, and read more complex sentences with many sight words and varied short vowel sounds for meaning.

Provides a series of simple tales for beginning readers to practice their ability to recognize and understand a sequence of events by following an animal through a day.

"Set 8: Long Vowels and Reading for Fluency, with this set, children will begin to 1) recognize varied long vowel sounds and word families, 2) blend long vowel word families with initial consonants and digraphs, and 3) read more complex sentences with many sight words and varied long vowel sounds for meaning"--

"With rhyming, carefully leveled text and comedic, colorful illustrations, this book provides plenty examples of long vowel sounds and encourages readers to try the sounds for themselves"--

Meg and Greg have various adventures during summer vacation, including helping an injured duckling and finding a lost pet fish, in a book that demonstrates four distinct phonics sounds.