Decodable Books Written by Teachers

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
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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