A hybrid between storybook and textbook, Book of Stories is for use with the Words in Color family of literacy materials. Learners begin by decoding simple sentences involving few combinations of sounds and spellings. The book progresses to include full paragraphs with punctuation, capital letters, and the most common of the 400] sound-spellings in American English. Even the trickiest words are made meaningful through the down-to-Earth stories of family life.