The Red Rock opens a set that travels from the launch pad to the moon and Mars. Decodable stories about space rockets, twelve of them, for grades 1 and 2. A child reads a whole launch story on their own One big word goes up at a time and the child taps it forward at their own pace. The words rejoin so the sentence can be read whole. You spot who needs reteaching after every story Nine words from the story make the check that follows it. The child taps the ones with the story's sound, right taps turn green, missed words orange, wrong taps red, and a score lands on the page. The set follows one order through four units, Unit 1, Short Vowels and Digraphs, then Unit 2, Blends, Magic e and Long a, then Unit 3, Long Vowel Teams, and finally Unit 4, R-Controlled and Diphthongs. That is why The Red Rock teaches one pattern and The Loud Countdown teaches a different one. Printed launch stories for the group Every story also comes as a printed page with the sound letters underlined and three written questions, and the packet adds a reading log and two pages of teacher notes. More Word by Word themes - Word by Word: Sports Day - Word by Word: Pirates - All 30 themes in the bundle