Description This title in the Budding Blossom Stories series focuses on initial sounds h, l, m, p, and v and high-frequency words a, and, help, is, looks, sees, that, the, this, and where. Budding Blossom Stories provide the first steps of independent reading, serving as a bridge between phonological awareness instruction and decoding written English, with a focus on initial sounds and high-utility, high-frequency words.