Spike, the amazing chicken is a creative storybook for 7 to 9 year-olds to improve their oral reading fluency skills.

This book is a combination of imagination and innovation that improves the reading experience for kids with its advanced interactivity. This storybook blends a fun story of Spike, the chicken who lives on a farm with the oral reading fluency practice, writing prompts, fun activities, and vocabulary tasks.

In this story, Spike, the chicken is being interviewed by a famous TV host which forms a humorous plot for the story. There are several characters in the story including the other animals living on the form. This full-color storybook has age-appropriate reading comprehension tasks, fun drawing tasks, an online program to improve oral reading fluency, lovely hand-drawn illustrations, exercises to promote critical reading, & interactive activities.

Reading Fluency Research has shown that kids with developed reading fluency skills have improved cognitive understanding of the text compared to peers with underdeveloped reading skills. The reading fluency skills are demonstrated by the ability to read selected passages quickly with few or no errors and by the show of expressions while reading.

This storybook comes with an industry-first innovative online fluency improvement program.

The reading fluency improvement component of ‘the story of the Spike, the amazing chicken’ is an online solution that allows students to

Read, record and listen to the story in their own voice without practice (cold reading) Practice the words included in this story via vocabulary FlashCube and quiz Read-along with an expert storyteller while following the highlighted text Reread the story, record & listen to it in own voice (hot reading) Demonstrate reading comprehension by answering an interactive quiz

Who can use this book: This fun workbook is suitable for Emergent Readers (Levels D-J) and Early Fluent Readers (Levels K-P) in the age group of 7 to 9.It offers fun reading along with activities to promote reading & writing skills mastery. This book is an excellent addition to your homeschool curriculum. This can also be used to support English language learners in grades 1-3.

The Book Includes Several Learning Activities:
- A sweet age-appropriate story - Drawing & coloring activities
- Reading comprehension tasks
- Writing tasks and note-taking area to record emotions or opinions - Online access to

An audio version of the story Read-along tasks Interactive questions that allow kids to record their reading Vocabulary practice with FlashCube to learn pronunciation, meaning, synonyms, and much more!

About the Lumos Curious Reader Series:

Lumos Curious Reader series is designed to help young readers develop critical reading & writing skills while enjoying a story. It includes exercises that encourage young readers to identify story settings, plots, characters, etc. These help them understand how the author has developed the story. These books also include access to engaging and interactive online resources.