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Bug on the Bus

by David Catrow Publisher: HOLIDAY HOUSE INC

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A bus ride built for first reading practice

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A bus ride built for first reading practice

Bug, Bat, Hen, Cat, Pig, Pup, and Fox climb aboard a bus, where the arrival of Skunk changes the trip. The short, cumulative setup is paired with decodable text: the publisher notes 83 words using short vowels, alongside selected consonants, sight words, and blends. That makes the animal-filled episode a compact introduction to sounding out simple words, with the bus’s growing group providing a clear thread for beginning readers to follow.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Beginning readers practicing phonics and decoding
  • Children who enjoy stories featuring a group of animals

Themes

Early reading and phonicsAnimalsA shared bus ride

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Book overview

This funny story by an award-winning artist is the perfect story for practicing simple phonics.

Bug ran to the bus.
Hop on.
Bat ran to the bus.

Bug, Bat, Hen, Cat, Pig, Pup, and Fox all hop on the bus. Everything is fine until skunk hops on too!

This decodable story is laugh-out-loud funny.

David Catrow, the award-winning creator of two New York Times Best Illustrated Books and multiple bestselling picture books, applies his prodigious talent to a story that will delight children as they embark on their reading adventure.

The story has eighty-three words with short vowels, twelve consonants, two sight words and two blends.
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