Blast Off into Reading Author:Sheila Keenan Stickers, puzzles, fill-ins, and more! Children have fun learning to read with these simple phonics activities. — Concepts covered in BLAST OFF into READING include: — short and long vowels, beginning and ending consonants, spelling patters, digraphs, and blends, sound families, pronouns, frequently used words, opposites, place words, verbs, and ... more »writing sentences.« less