Decodable Books Written by Teachers

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  These creative works were designed to be decodable for students who know all five short vowels and common consonant digraphs.  The authors restricted content to one-syllable words with short vowels, where consonant digraphs and consonant clusters are decodable for readers.  They also used the 50 most common words in English, mostly function words needed to read any text, like the, a, of, is, to, etc.  However, no irregular words like friend or sword were used in the making of these books. Clicking on a link will download a PowerPoint of the book.
  
  Bob the Cat and His Nap, by Cambre Prater
• Dad's Lost Hat, by Bridgett Wilson
  Jack the Cat, by Emily Mills
• Sam the Ant, by Eleanor McDavid
  Bob Is Lost, by Amanda Cummings
  Sam's Trip to the Doc, by Heather Lewis
  I Can Swim! by Maggie Saye
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  Teachers:  Publish on the Reading Genie site!  My plan for this site is to include books at each step in decoding development.  I welcome texts submitted in PowerPoint to address specific steps in decoding acquisition.  We will adhere to the following phonics sequence:
  1. Begin with the five short vowels in alphabetical order: a = /a/, e = /e/, i = /i/, o = /o/, u = /u/.
      Include easy digraphs like ck or ss and simple consonant clusters in the earliest books.
  2. Intersperse consonant digraphs among short vowels. Cover the main h-digraphs: ch = /ch/, sh = / sh/, th = /th/.
  3. Cover the five long vowels in alphabetical order.
      For each long vowel, first present the silent-e pattern: a_e = /A/, i_e = /I/, o_e = /O/, or u_e = /U/.
      Follow each silent-e pattern with its long vowel digraphs: ai/ay = /A/, ee/ea = /E/, igh/y = /I/, oa/ow = /O/, ew/oo = /U/.
  4. Finally, teach other vowels, not short or long: oo = /oo/, oi/oy = /oy/, ou/ow = /ow/, au/aw = /aw/
      Include r-controlled vowels: er/ir/ur = /er/, ar = /ar/.
  E-mail your decodable books as PowerPoint files, by attachment, to murraba@auburn.edu.
  
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