Trucks on the Job

Did you ever think about how concrete mixers work? How about fire trucks? Trash trucks? Snow plows? Street sweepers? Street sweepers? Each truck is made for just one type of job. It carries gear for that one job. And it does that job very well! Find out what it takes to drive a race car, ride through the back country, restore an old car, or fly over the water. Traveling on wheels, on water, or in the air can be pretty cool.

Trucks on the Job is one of 6 books in a set called Cool Rides, which is part of the Sound Out Phonics Based Chapter Books series. Cool Rides (Sound Out Levels 5 and 6) focus on the following skills: contractions, one-syllable spelling patterns, tense endings, word endings, compound words, prefixes and suffixes, and simple two-syllable words. Readers will not be able to tell that each book is written using controlled vocabulary.