Description Ella gets to work digging her garden. The Little Blossom Stories use phonics and decodable patterns to engage early readers. The book uses a combination of sight words and short-vowel words in repetition to build recognition. Original illustrations help guide readers through the text. Practice decodable patterns CVC & CVCC, R-controlled vowels -ar-, -ir-, & -or, blends -nt, -mp-, & -st, and digraph -ck. .