Description Phonics Skill Focus: Short Vowels, Initial/Final Digraphs, and Initial Blends The Pioneer Valley Phonics Storybooks provide teachers with a collection of high-quality decodable readers that have been carefully crafted to follow a scope and sequence that provides readers with abundant opportunities to transfer newly acquired phonics skills to an authentic reading context. Each set of books features diverse characters, fun storylines, and beautiful illustrations. Readers will gain both skills and confidence with these engaging books. The On Our Way books provide the beginning reader with opportunities to practice decoding CVC words, words with initial and final digraphs, and simple words with initial blends.