No Small Mess: Level 1: Book 7

Make learning to read engaging for children with this decodable fiction book about a man named Jeff who gets stuck in a dangerous well! This book offers a built-in phonics review for early readers. Today, students need help learning how to read more than ever before. This illustrated book excites young readers while they gain important practice with several high-frequency words: call, small, tell, well. Each book includes family engagement activities to extend phonics learning and has a specific phonics focus. Book 7 covers final double consonants. Build foundational reading skills with the research-based approach to phonics instruction used in this book!


About the Author

Eric Braun is a children's author and editor who has written dozens of books on many topics, including Make a Friend, Be a Friend and Be Yourself, Like Yourself for the Little Laugh & Learn(R) series and How to Take the ACHE Out of Mistakes and How to Take the GROAN Out of Grown-Ups for the Laugh & Learn(R) series. His books have won awards and honors including the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, a Foreword Book of the Year Gold Award, a Benjamin Franklin Award, and many others. One of his books was read by an astronaut on the International Space Station for kids on Earth to watch. A McKnight Artist Fellow and an Aspen Summer Words scholar for his fiction, Eric earned an MFA in creative writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato. He lives in Minneapolis.