Reading and spelling both require an understanding of basic phonetic rules. Ellen Williams, Ed.D. creates a simple story to teach short and long vowel sounds and how the vowels are impacted by a silent E at the end of a word. This book is written to be a read-along story- where the reader makes the sounds and children say them back as the story progresses. Each vowel "says its name" when it has the long sound. When it has a consonant on the right,...