Colorful Illustrations support decodable text, guiding beginning readers to identify, recognize, and use the /er/ sound. Featuring high-frequency words, this authentic fictional narrative also gives emerging readers the opportunity to read with purpose and for meaning while reinforcing basic phonemic sounds. Readers will follow a narrator as she goes with her mom to a dance class. This fiction phonics title is paired with the nonfiction phonics title Winter Weather: Practicing the ER Sound. The instructional guide on the inside front and back covers provides: * Word List with carefully selected grade-appropriate words featuring the /er/ sound found in the text * Teacher Talk that assists instructors in introducing the /er/ sound * Group Activity that guides students to identify the /er/ sound, decode the words that contain it, and use the words * Extended Activity that provides students with additional opportunities to think about, list, and use words containing the /er/ sound * Writing Activity that guides students to write the letters that make the /er/ sound