Two Fun Decodable Series to Get Kids Reading
Decodable books don’t have to be boring! The surge of interest in decodable books and decoding skills have led to a surge of new books on the market designed with both the Science of Reading and the enjoyment of kids in mind.
Tas and Friends
Tas and Friends is a series of 100 readers for developing skills in decoding. When children are learning the basic foundations of phonics they need continual practice of these foundation elements. Readers provide a perfect opportunity to introduce the vowel, consonant, syllable or blend to use and then practice.
These sets of Tas and Friends readers provide an ideal means for children to gain fluency and secondly, have fun reading for the first time. Phonics and decoding are the foundation skills for reading. It is true that some children can read without decoding but are they understanding the content? To speed up reading skills all children benefit by a starting program in decoding. This will introduce the student to vowels and consonants followed by a sequential building of use of blends and syllables.
Children build confidence and fluency and are ready to decode unknown words. Readers speed up the literacy program in schools.
Get a scope and sequence here.
Comic Decoders
The comics format was chosen to provide an appealing and familiar format to beginning readers. The story unfolds and provides oral language opportunities with the graphics.
The text is structured for decoding so it is very limited in word range. The children will be able to decode or be presented with prior familiarization with sight words. Children will immediately find these attractive and fun readers a great way to practice their decoding.
Phonics skills are built sequentially with full teacher directions given with each reader. Each reader is unique in layout and character presentation to provide an engaging and rich reading experience. The more children practice their reading skills the faster they will achieve fluency and independent reading. It is strongly advised to provide daily opportunities for children to read.
The series covers a sequential plan of work and can be an additional support to other classroom activities. The set covers the initial consonants and then blends. There are teacher guidance notes for each of these readers with listed sight words to review before starting on the series.
Download the scope and sequence here.
Are the decodable books in your collection engaging for the kids in your classrooms? To learn more about engaging decodable books or to get a sample, contact a literacy specialist today!
