"These poor ducks are stuck in the muck! This Focused Phonics decodable book provides a built-in review of phonics and phonemic awareness concepts for beginning readers. In today's classrooms, students need help with decoding and word study more than ever before. As students gain practice with the high-frequency words in this fiction book, they develop foundational reading skills and improve reading comprehension. Make learning to read fun for students with this illustrated decodable book!"--