Nan and Pap (Decodable book)

Decodable Book
A Review by John Iles

               Today I will be reviewing a Decodable book from the website readinga-z.com. This is a teaching source which my mom has access to. She is an elementary school teacher.

                The book I read was called Nan and Pap. The book follows two main characters throughout their day. They both wake up and get their day started, Then they encounter a pan. Finally, they end up sleeping in the pan.

                 I rate this story a 2/5. It was very boring and I would not use it to teach to kids.

Title: Nan and Pap
Author: Veronica Angel
Publisher: Learning A-Z
Publishing Date: 2015
ISBN: N/A

Comments

  1. Aliyah GomezDecember 23, 2019 at 5:20 PM

    Hi John
    I went through a couple of decodable book's before choosing one and I realized that they are all considered "boring" because the focus is on the words for beginner readers (focusing on letter sounds, blending skills, irregular and high frequency words (tricky words). Decodable books help children to sound the words out, sound out the letters, to allow them to increase there overall reading successes. Decodable books include common situations to help children to be taught, they maybe use to using "a" as in "cat", but need to know "a" as in "all" or "way". The goal is to have technically a boring storyline and boring illustrations so they can focus on the phonics, it's important for a teacher to match the phonics teaching sequence to a decodable book that matches! These text's maybe considered boring, but students learn to read.
    -Aliyah G.

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  2. Katrin BlameyDecember 27, 2019 at 6:31 AM

    Aliyah is absolutely correct. A hallmark of this type of book is that it is not supposed to have an engaging plot. The whole point of decodable books is to give beginner readers practice decoding the phonics they have learned in school. So, if a teacher has taught the class to read words with the _at word family, such as cat, hat, mat, and rat, then a good decodable book should have lots of those words to offer the new readers practice. Typically this means that the books are not the most exciting plots!

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  3. UnknownDecember 27, 2019 at 9:51 AM

    I had no idea there were websites about decodable books. This changes the way children learn when it comes to reading. It makes sense for decodable books because they don't really have much of a story, and their main objective is to teach little children words and how to understand them.

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