Make learning to read fun for children with this decodable fiction book about some ducks stuck in the muck! This book provides a built-in phonics review for beginning readers. Today, students need help learning how to read more than ever before. This illustrated book will engage and excite young readers while they gain practice with several high-frequency words: have, in, the, they, this, was. Each book includes family engagement activities to extend phonics learning and has a specific phonics focus. Book 13 covers short u, d, and y. Develop foundational reading skills with the research-based approach to phonics instruction used in this book!