A boy and his mom need to prepare for a big storm! This Focused Phonics decodable book offers a built-in review of phonics and phonemic awareness concepts for early readers. In today’s classrooms, students need help with decoding and word study more than ever before. With this fiction book, students will practice with high-frequency words , develop foundational reading skills, and improve reading comprehension. Make learning to read engaging for students with this decodable book! Covers diphthongs oi , oy , and ou - Meets diverse student needs using research based on the science of reading - Allows students to develop their decoding skills with a text-first structure - Includes full-color illustrations that support the text - Provides family engagement activities to extend phonics learning Since her kid years, Monika Davies has been imagining and writing up stories. (Her first stories featured temperamental unicorns and wayward wizards.) She is now the author of over 60 books for kids and a workshop facilitator for adult-sized writers. She has written books on an eclectic range of topics, from surprising things we eat to global citizenship to the hidden world of toilets! She also deeply believes everyone is a writer and is on a mission to inspire and encourage people of all ages to write down their stories. Monika holds a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and is certified to lead writing workshops using the AWA (Amherst Artists & Writers) method. She lives on Vancouver Island with her family and two ridiculous cats.