Description:

A New Pet Home is a decodable with the focus skill of words with vowel teams (au, aw, augh). This title was specifically designed to support older students as they develop foundational English reading skills, as it emphasize the domains of language development (listening, speaking, reading, writing) with an emphasis on cognates and vocabulary. In A New Pet Home, Augusta loves her pet chinchillas, Paul and Shawn, and decides they need a better place to live. After a trip to the zoo gives her a great idea, Augusta draws up plans and, with her dad's help, builds a new home for her furry friends. The chinchillas love their spacious new habitat, and Augusta feels proud of what they created together.