This appealing reader set includes books from different content areas, supportive illustrations, familiar concepts, and predictable story lines. Stories include a bear that likes to measure, children who care for a lizard, and a sing-along about marching bugs. Stories cover skills such as recognizing prepositional phrases, identifying similarities and differences, and drawing conclusions. Each book includes either related activities or listings of content-area concepts, sight words, phonics, vocabulary words, and related learning skills.