Comprehension and Reasoning Skills
Companion books to the Explode the Code series that reinforce the phonics skills taught.
Book 2 contains 7 engagingly illustrated stories: Plum; The Camp Out; Greg Can’t Sleep; Max; Good, Bad, or Best?; Stand up for Lemonade; and Lost in the City. Introductory exercises teach word families and vocabulary, while follow-up questions develop students’ understanding of the stories and encourage their reasoning abilities. After each story, students can complete illustrations by adding their own drawings.
Skills Addressed
- Spelling patterns
- Sight words
- Vocabulary development
- Sequencing
- Categorizing
- Following directions
- Critical thinking
- Story recall
- Inferential thinking
- Rhyming words
- Multi-syllabic words
- Matching sentences to pictures