"Focus on phonics 2: short vowel sounds and consonant blends is a combination of two books that were previously published separately: Focus on phonics-2a: short vowel sounds and Focus on phonics-2b: Consonant blends. Part A of this book is correlated to Laubach Way to Reading 2. Part B on consonant blends gives additional help on beginning and ending consonant blends"--Page v

The second level of a four-level series that presents new word-attack skills and spelling techniques and provides practice exercises to reinforce these new skills in context, intended for students reading at grade levels 0-4 and comprised of a teacher's edition and a student workbook; correlated to and a supplement to the student skill books in Laubach Way to Reading