Letter-Lore Decodable Collection 1: Sam Sits. It takes ingenuity and linguistic agility to create interesting stories with only ten sounds, but the Letter-Lore decodables are proof that it can be done. Lively, colourful illustrations supplement the text, but students are able to decode every word in every story on the basis of their letter-sound knowledge alone. The stories in this first collection portray real children, and their pets, in a rich diversity of cultural contexts.  All the selections are fully decodable when students have completed the corresponding lessons in Working with Letters and Sounds. Letter-Lore Decodables are full of mischief and humour; children or animals end up dripping wet, or covered in jam, or splattered in egg, or needing a back-rub after a tumble. They include poems and verses, and soon include a variety of narrative genre and information texts. Skills required for comprehension of these materials are explicitly taught and practiced in Working with Letters and Sounds. By the end of their Letter-Lore year, students have read over 300 pages of text that is both authentic and fully decodable.   Letter-Lore selections include words and situations that foster vocabulary growth and invite discussion and engagement.  Novel words such as "sob" and "throb" and "panic" also fit well into an SEL program.

Letter-Lore Decodable Collections

Sam Sits

Tom Kicks

The Lumpy Bumpy Dragon

The Star in the Apple Tree