Description Phonics Skill Focus: Initial and Final Consonant Sounds and Short Vowels 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 Ready, Set, Go books provide the most novice reader with opportunities to develop concepts of print, such as one-to-one matching and return sweep, as well as practice in decoding using consonant sounds and short vowels.