Description The Little Blossom Stories use phonics and decodable patterns to engage early readers. Read about Emma and Piper, her big, white, fluffy dog. Piper travels with Emma's family on a plane and learns how to behave. The book uses a combination of sight words and short-vowel words in CVC, CCVC, and CVCC. Includes long vowels of a_e & ee, blends tr-, cl-, -st, pl-, sl- & br-, digraphs ch-, th- & -sh, and R-controlled vowel -ar.