Description Phonics Skill Focus: Final Blends, Long Vowels, and Vowel Teams 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 Building Up books provide the early reader with opportunities to practice decoding words with final blends, long vowels, and vowel teams.