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-at as in Cat

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In this title, beginning readers will learn about word families, practice using them, and then apply what they've learned by reading a fun decodable animal story. Readers can use their phonics skills to find out why cat's hat is not flat! Features include a table of contents, colorful photographs, simple text, and a picture glossary. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Launch! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.

Interest Level Preschool - Grade 2
Reading Level Grade 1
Genre Beginning Readers, Leveled Readers, Nonfiction
Subject Animals, Language Arts
Copyright 2025
Division Abdo Zoom
Imprint Launch!
Language English
Number of Pages 24
Season 2024-08-01
ISBN 9781098286828, 9781098286965, 9781098287030
Title Format Reinforced Library Bound Hardcovers, Multi-user eBook, Read-to-Me eBook
Dewey 428.1
Graphics Full-color photographs
Dimensions 8 x 8
Lexile 260
Features Glossary of key words and Table of contents
 

Word Families

The Word Families series offers kids silly stories that emphasize words with “the same spelling and sound patterns,” and the repetition of the books’ featured phoneme/grapheme within a variety of words will help beginning readers start to recognize the letter pairs. Each title opens with three pages that prepare kids for the ensuing reading expe­rience. “Try It!” uses a sample word from the word family-“cat” for example-and asks the reader to look at its letters, sound the letters out, and then say the word. “Practice It!” lists several other word­ family words, and “Words I Know” presents leveled, non-word-family words that the reader will encounter in the story. Stock photos are humorously collaged onto solid backgrounds and lend visual support to the text (typically one to two sentences per page). In -at as in Cat, kids witness a cat in a hat get into a spat with a rat and a bat. Easily the wackiest tide, -ig as in Pig presents pigs in wigs who like to dig and jig. A dog wearing clogs jogs in a bog in -og as in Dog. The long i sound is showcased in -y as in Fly, in which a shy fly dreams of being a spy. Each title concludes with a two-page spread reviewing the word-family terms as well as a picture glossary.

Author: Anna Anderhagen

Illustrator: Steve Kurth