Books with author Nicholas Heller

Based on Aesop’s Fables, these decodable short stories use high frequency and decodable words to help people with dyslexia build reading fluency, comprehension and confidence.Echoes of Aesop – volume one, contains 18 of these timeless stories, each one with a life lesson. The book was started when students could move on to books outside of their program, but needed more practice with the “rules” and were getting frustrated at uncontrolled reading. The stories work well with Orton-Gillingham based methods, but do not strictly align. The decodable words include closed syllables, open syllables, prefixes and suffixes, and silent-e syllables. This volume contains around 6,700 words, and about 1,200 different words. There is a word list with frequency included in the book, along with the short list of words that “don’t fit.”Ellen Nicholas is a tutor using the Barton Reading and Spelling System(r) and has a background in working with people with disabilities. She enjoys continuing to tutor students (remotely) and living with her husband in small-town USA.

In the backyard where Charlie has buried his tooth because he no longer believes in the Tooth Fairy, a voracious tree with teeth on its branches appears and begins to devour everything in sight; but all is saved by the bedside appearance of the Tooth Fairy.Skeptical of the Tooth Fairy, Charlie puts his tooth in a treasure chest and buries it in the garden, where it grows into a tree that has teeth and eats everything in sight