In Your Backpack — Dona Herweck Rice

A notebook, a pencil, a lunchbox, and a ruler. What else will you find in a school backpack? Ideal for beginning readers, this book teaches these 3 high-frequency words: a, for, and you. The simple, repetitive phrases are accompanied by clear images that support the text to aid in memorization. The bright images, rebus pictures, and easy-to-read text make the book appealing to young learners and older emergent readers. Children will learn the essential Fry sight words and gain confidence as readers as they learn to read joyfully and independently.