Phonics Skill Focus: Vowel-r Combinations: ar and or The Pioneer Valley Phonics Storybooks collection features high-quality decodable readers that have been carefully crafted to follow a scope and sequence, providing readers with abundant opportunities to transfer newly acquired phonics skills to authentic texts. Each set features diverse characters, captivating storylines, and beautiful illustrations. Readers will gain both skill and confidence with these engaging books. The Orbiting books were designed for upper-level students still developing their phonics knowledge. This set of advanced decodable books revisits previously taught phonics skills embedded in other Phonics Storybooks sets. Whether working on vowel teams, unique spelling patterns, or vowel-r combinations, readers can use these books to orbit back to a specific phonic element in order to gain mastery over it.