Colorful Illustrations support decodable text, guiding beginning readers to identify, recognize, and use the /ng/ sound. Featuring high-frequency words, this authentic fictional narrative also gives emerging readers the opportunity to read with purpose and for meaning while reinforcing basic phonemic sounds. Readers will follow a quirky king as he looks around for his favorite ring. This fiction phonics title is paired with the nonfiction phonics title Things in Spring: Practicing the NG Sound.The instructional guide on the inside front and back covers provides: