The Yak Pack Comics & Phonics and Sight Word Comics
Meet the Yak Pack, an adventurous, comical, and occasionally mischievous group of animals that teach beginning readers essential phonics and sight word skills through engaging text and graphics. The Phonics collection, comprising four books containing six stories, contains thoughtful animal adventures that introduce students to specific short and long vowel sounds, consonant digraphs, and blends. Each narrative highlights the skills to be practiced and identifies the sight words incorporated in the story. A keyword and sound are presented for students to connect new sounds in a multisensory way. Whimsical illustrations and engaging text bubbles captivate beginning readers in a unique story sequence as they read this creative decodable text. At the end of each story, students engage in implicit and explicit comprehension questions. The most impressive feature is the phonological awareness skills activity that culminates each tale. This unique feature invites the reader to practice manipulating the phonemes in different words. Students engage in activities to identify rhyme, blending, segmenting, and substituting word sounds.
Rumack Resources also offers The Yak Pack Sight Word Comics. Within this series of four books containing ten stories each, children are introduced to particular sight words and explicit directions on how to read these words. Sound symbols like shaded and white hearts assist in a child's decoding of words with irregular Dolch word spellings. Simple sentences with graphics for more complex expressions encourage reinforcement of new and previously taught sight words. Each story builds upon the other. There is an opportunity for children to trace and write each sight word, and the author supports the new concepts through multisensory and creative literacy activities. The best feature of this story series is the culminating reading activities at the end of each narrative. Children will participate in fun and engaging literacy activities such as book creation, drawing, sensory-driven writing opportunities using sand and shaving cream, creative games, and more! A thoughtful and intentional focus on phonics and writing application is offered, incorporating tactile, kinesthetic, auditory, and visual modalities.
The Yak Pack Sight Word and Comics & Phonics early reading series serves an essential and influential mission to introduce beginning readers to engaging decodable text that will no doubt captivate the most reluctant struggling readers. This creative collection of stories for early readers provides an excellent education for parents and teachers to assist beginning readers and fosters independent reading through decodable text with whimsical sophistication that is uber-appealing to its audience. These books are recommended for connected text experiences within the regular classroom, school reading intervention, and private therapy practice. The book's structure, sequence, and unique text features contribute to this series's impressive literacy lessons. Beginning readers will no doubt fall in love with the adorable furry friends of the Yak Pack while learning how to read in a genuinely enjoyable and entertaining experience!
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