Exploring our Books
Discover the joy of learning with our decodable phonics books! Designed using the latest Science of Reading research, these books provide a unique format that combines structured phonics learning with engaging, laugh-out-loud AI generated and photo shopped illustrations. Each story encourages readers to decode text before revealing delightful pictures that confirm meaning and spark conversation. With recurring lovable characters and rich vocabulary-building activities, our books are perfect for young learners starting their reading journey. Explore the world of decodable books and help your child build confidence and a love for reading today!
We offer many options of packages to buy but want to meet your own individual needs. If you don't see an option that suits you, please reach out to us and we would be happy to work with you to put together a quote and package designed just for you!
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Science of Reading
What is the Science of Reading?
The Science of Reading refers to a body of research from the fields of education, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and neuroscience. This research explains how individuals learn to read and the best practices for reading instruction. We want our instruction to be brain friendly for all students to ensure success.
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How do Surprise Decodable books align with this growing body of research?
Our books, follow a structured scope and sequence of phonics skills. This allows students to build on previous skills and helps students to store and retrieve their orthographic knowledge. Reading connected text helps the skills “stick”. We have written several books for each phonetic pattern to help ensure mastery. Our books have been listed on both the Reading Leagues' Decodable Book List and the Measured Mom's List.
As well, our books provide meaningful, joyful interactions with text which is often lacking in decodable text. We know if engagement and motivation are high, learning skyrockets. Our books and pictures, with their unique format, stimulate rich conversations and access to complex ideas. We have carefully thought out Before Reading and After Reading discussion points and questions to ensure engagement and knowledge building.
We know from Science of Reading research that building strong, robust vocabularies is essential for reading success. In our books, we have therefore, listed vocabulary building activities at the end of the book. We have incorporated many activities that stretch the vocabulary learning beyond our decodable books. These include activities such as brainstorming and categorizing words, as well as building semantic gradients. In addition, we often identify a high leverage vocabulary word or words to teach and explore in relation to the text.
Surprise Decodables will help children get off to a joyful, brain friendly start in their reading journey.