First Grade Decodables Set: The Slug Club; A Rain and Hail Day; No Jeep This Week; No Bike, No Hike, No Dice; A Goat, a Pig, and a Foal; Luke's Flute

by Joy Berry, Robert Crump (illustrator)

READING is a type of decoding. DECODING, as it pertains to reading, translates letters in the alphabet into words. PHONICS is a method of decoding that teaches reading by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters to form words.

A DECODABLE is an EARLY READER with a simple text intended to teach and/or reinforce phonics.

JOY BERRY’S PHONICS AND LIVING SKILLS DECODABLES consist of text featuring engaging stories that teach crucial Living Skills concepts and reinforce the teaching of phonics.

Joy’s First Grade Decodables contain limited-word texts as well as age-specific phonetic letters, sounds and words that are designed to reinforce the phonics that first graders are learning in school . They also include age-appropriate Living Skills concepts that are important for first graders to learn.

Because “practice makes perfect,” Joy’s First Grade Decodables are essential to helping first graders learn how to read as the entertaining cartoon characters and story at the heart of each Decodable can help (1) overcome any possible resistance to practicing reading and (2) inspire first graders to read.

113 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 25, 2024

About the author

With over 85 million copies of her books sold, Joy Berry’s message has helped children around the world lead more responsible lives.

Joy Berry, pioneering educator, trusted child-development and parenting specialist, is the bestselling author of Joy Berry Classics for children with more than 250 titles and 85 million copies of her books sold. Joy Berry’s lifelong mission is to help kids help themselves by providing the information and motivation children need to lead responsible lives. Simply put, Joy Berry knows and understands children.

“Children should be 100% responsible for all of their choices and decisions by the time they are 12 years of age,” Joy Berry says. “In order for this to happen, parents need to encourage their children to make as many choices and decisions as possible as early in their lives as possible.”


Joy’s understanding of children and her pragmatic approach to educating and empowering children, has given rise to one of the most extensive juvenile product lines in the world.