Grateful — Saddleback Educational Publishing

Theme: Realistic Fiction. Phonics Skill: Suffixes. After a car accident results in the deaths of her parents, Viv struggles to take care of her siblings and keep their family together. All the stress and responsibility makes it hard to keep up with her schoolwork. How will her teachers react? Support striving readers with these low-level, age-respectful decodable books. Phonics Decodable Readers feature words from basic phonics rules, plus specific pattern words. All books feature a glossary, and nonfiction books include technical vocabulary and definitions to help set striving readers up for success. Each book is 48 pages.