Make learning to read meaningful for children with this decodable fiction book about Pat the panther and Shan the snake deciding to try something new! This book provides a built-in phonics review for young readers. Today, students need help with phonics concepts more than ever before. This illustrated book will engage and excite young readers while they gain practice with many high-frequency words: board, great, light, maybe, next, single, soon, summer, surprise, today, wrong. Each book includes family engagement activities to extend phonics learning and has a specific phonics focus. Book 25 covers compound words, open syllables, closed syllables, and the consonant -le. Address social skills, build reading skills, and develop reading comprehension with the research-based approach to phonics instruction used in this book!