Collection 4: Learn to Read Phonetically: Short Vowels and Digraphs

This is a collection of five stories written with single consonants, blends, digraphs, and short vowels. The first two stories are written with the *Dolch phonetic sight words. Stories three, four, and five incorporate other short vowel words. Each story has a list of vocabulary words at the beginning as well as questions to answer at the end.

Mary Schuler MA, specialized trainer/tutor, is an experienced and result-oriented special education teacher with over 50 years of experience in the special education field. Obtaining her B.A. in elementary education from the College of St. Catherine’s in St. Paul, Minnesota, and her M.A. in Special Education, Schuler taught kindergarten, 1st grade, 5th grade, and special education in public school settings. While teaching and tutoring, she discovered that solving learning problems isn’t accomplished by just requiring the students to do more schoolwork. She developed/founded the literacy, math, and writing foundational approach resulting in hundreds of students achieving academic and life success. She now works with parent reading coach to train/coach parents/teachers on the literacy, math, and writing foundational approach. Nicholas Torres MEd, has over 20 years of experience in executive management. He built and led one of the largest and most nationally recognized human services organizations, founded and governed two charter schools, founded a nonprofit focused on scaling high impact social enterprises including school based health centers and high school/college access and completion pipelines, and founded a social sector consulting organization. Currently, he is president of social innovations partners which publishes the social innovations journal and facilitates the social innovations institute & lab. He serves as adjunct faculty at University of Pennsylvania. He started parent reading coach with his colleagues because he believes parents and caregivers are the primary vehicles toward quality education and should have the educational tools and knowledge to educate their children.