Letter-Lore Decodable Collection 3: The Lumpy Bumpy Dragon. 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 inthis first collection portray real children, and their pets (and dragons), 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.