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Review of Decodable Books for Use With Phonic Teaching - Follifoot Farm Series 2, Part 3

Decodable books are now commonplace in schools throughout the UK as phonic teaching has become well established as the best way to teach children how to read. These decidable books are written in a manner that encourages the child to decode the English alphabet in order to construct words and sentences. You can obtain decidable books to read with your child at home, but how do you know which books are best?

This article is the third part in a review of a collection of decodable books by Marlene Greenwood, a respected author and illustrator who has previously written and published over 100 phonic books for all levels and abilities. The Jelly and Bean at Follifoot Farm stories are written to be 100% decodable and fall in line with the Letters and Sounds approach to teaching.

The six books in the Follifoot Farm Series 2 collection are targeted at children aged 5-6 (depending on ability) and fit in with the national curriculum Phonics Phase 4.

The third book in the series is entitled "The Cats Who Fell Out Of The Car, Part 3: Out of the Barn" and we join cats where we left them at the end of Part 2. The continuity from book to book is actually one of the significant benefits of this series because children are encouraged to read on. They are rewarded to a new adventure in each book and the overriding story encourages the child to pick up that next book and find out a little bit more... screentime

In this book we meet a horse who evokes the emotion of fear in the cats. This emotion is not only expressed by the words on the page but also by Greenwood's illustrations which simply but effectively help to convey the meaning of the story. The story ends with the cats heading in to the chicken coop, creating a commotion of clucking, crashing and banging.

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