Decodable Books

Bread for Breakfast

Author: Brian Roberts

 Illustrator: Angela Kamstra


Publisher: Reading A-Z

This book is all about the short e sound. There’s no plot to the book really. It is about how Beth, Ned and Meg have short e sounds in their names. In the book, they eat bread and eggs for breakfast. They also wear sweaters. Ned plays checkers and chess.

There is not much to the book. I think they could have told a story with a bunch of words that have the short e sound. I think it is a cute book and it provides children with a lot of common words they will use every day that have the short e sound. I feel like the short e sound can be difficult to learn for children and this definitely makes it easy for them. Overall it was a cute decodable book. I give it a 8 out of 10.

Chip the Chimp

Author: Robert Charles

Illustrator: Terry Herman
Publisher: Reading A-Z

Chip is a master at chess. He met Chet one day and Chet bet Chip money that he could beat him in chess. Chip didn’t want to play chess. He eventually did and he beat Chet and won money.

I like this book a little better than the first one. It had a little storyline. The digraph ch can be in the middle, beginning or end of a word. I think it is good that the book shows children all three examples of the ch digraph. The book gives many examples of the ch digraph in the beginning, middle and end of the words. It teaches the children but also keeps them entertained. I give this book a 9 out of 10.

Big Bad Bat

Author: Veronica Angel

Illustrator: Bill Dinardo
Publisher: Reading A-Z

The book is about how Bob and Pam are trying to catch a bat. They never catch him but the bat takes a toy away from them.

Again, there is no story line. It is not a good story at all really to entertain children but it does teach them the b sound. There are many words with the letter b in the book. Overall I give this book a 7 out of 10.