The Gust and the Cap opens a set in the yard, on the path and over the barn. Decodable stories about the weather, twelve of them, for grades 1 and 2. A child reads a weather story on their own One large word is shown at a time and the child taps ahead. The sentence puts its words back together so it can be read whole. You know who is ready for the next pattern Nine words from the story make the check that ends it. The child taps the ones with the story's sound, right taps show green, missed words orange with a short note, and wrong taps red. 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 Gust and the Cap teaches one pattern and The Kite and the Cloud teaches a different one. Papers for the weather week 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: Farm - Word by Word: Dinosaurs - All 30 themes in the bundle