A Gift from Shawn

Shawn is training Hap, a black lab, to be a guide dog for the blind. This story follows Shawn and Hap as he grows up and learns how to be a guide dog.


A Gift from Shawn is a level 4 book in the Sound Out Phonics Based Chapter Books series, which feature six levels of phonics progression that gives students multiple opportunities to practice specific phonics skills. Level 4 focuses on one-syllable words with short and long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs, diphthongs, silent letters, and controlled vowels.