Description Oh, no! Pepper has gotten dirty. Gram must give him a bath. This story uses decodable text to raise confidence in early readers. The book uses a combination of sight words and short-vowel words in repetition to build recognition. Includes blends gr-, pl-, -nt, -st, & st-, vowel team -ay, R-controlled vowl -ir-, and digraph -th in CVCC and CCVC.