TY - BOOK AU - Makar, Barbara W. TI - The Chicken ranch U1 - EA MAK PY - 1995/// CY - Cambridge, MA PB - Educators Publishing Service, Inc., N1 - Alphabetic & contracted braille; On the top of each page, the text appears in alphabetic braille. Following a row of dots, the text appears in contracted braille on the bottom of each page; Phonetic Elements Consonant sounds: b, c, d, f, g, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w, ch (chick), -tch (witch) Consonant Blends: st-, -st, cl-, -nd, fl-, -nt, fr-, -sk, tr-, -gg, -ll, -ck, -x, -ld Vowel sounds: a as in cat, i as in pig, o as in hot (in some localities the o in dog may have the sound of aw as in saw), u as in cup, e as in pet, a (ape), i (kite), o (bone), e (Pete), ee (bee), ea (seal), ee (jeep), long vowels with r (fire, deer) Sight words: a, the, to, and, of, I, said. New Patterns: be, he, she, -ed, 's. Continues practice of plural forms, compound words and two-syllable words; K-4 N2 - Chip runs a chicken ranch and takes care of the animals ER -