by Beth Staats
Quick Summary
A selection of read-along and decodable books have recently been added to Ebooks Minnesota.
Particularly beneficial for English Language Learners, beginning readers, and students in kindergarten and first grade, "read-along" books and decodables can help kids learn and practice phonics skills. Decodable books are also designed to help students read with accuracy. Please note that due to publisher licensing restrictions, some of these newly added titles will require the user to login with a MackinVIA account. When you see a book that says, "Preview," please Register for a MackinVIA account or login with your previously created username and password.
Here is a sample of some of the newly added decodable titles, many with a "read-speaker"option:
Flit, flap, plop: A weather calendar
Some newly added decodable books are more advanced than those listed above and offer more text per page with a "phonics focus" and "high-frequency" word focus at the end. Here are some examples of those titles:
Adding to a collection of read-along books in Ebooks Minnesota, you can find many more newly added titles and here are just a few of them:
Min and the protests: a Tiananmen square survival story
Daring women of D-day: Bold spies of WWII
To see a full list of the available titles, go to Decodables or Read-Alongs.
