The Clown in the Gown Drives the Car with the Star: A Book about Diphthongs and R-Controlled Vowels (Sounds Like Reading ®) Paperback – January 1, 2009

my kids liked the book so much I got all eight of them they're cute and colorful fun to read its good practice for learning similar sounds I truly recommend this weather the child is having a hard time reading or a good reader still a good book for practice I have a child with adhd and one who is gifted and both loved this book and read it over and over and understood the related sound

Used with young readers to support phonic patterns. Great, silly ways of looking at rhyming words. The list allows for illustrated practice of individual words, then on the following pages, they use the rhyming words in a sentence for further practice.

Step-by-step this "Sounds Like Reading" series by Brian P. Cleary who wrote the wonderful poetry books and fun grammar books teaches native emergent readers, ESL students and even adults how to read. Through phonics and rhyme and pictures, the fledgling reader will step into literacy. I recommend this series!

This book was not about clowns and the title is deceiving.