Cedar School Decodables: Liv Is It!

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Synopsis:

In this story, Tom and Liv play tag in the forest. They run and hide among cedar, birch, and maple trees.

Cedar is a traditional medicine tree for Mi’gmaq. Birch bark is used by Mi’gmaq to make many things, including canoes and moose callers. Traditionally, Mi’gmaq used birch bark bowls to collect maple sap.

What kind of trees grow where you live?

Educator Information
Recommended for ages 4-7, for use in kindergarten and Grade 1 classrooms.

Cedar School Decodables is divided into six sets, which increase in word count and complexity of sentence structure. Liv Is It! is in Set 1 – Short Vowels, and reviews short i. Books in Set 1 have 40-60 words. Books in Set 1 have 40-60 words.

Readers should be familiar with the concepts included in Set 1:

• consonants
• beginning and end blends
• short vowels
• s – /s/ and /z/
• -s suffix

Series Information
Welcome to Cedar School! Join Liv, Tom, Gus, and Bell as they learn on the land and explore Mi’gmaw teachings with their teacher, Miss Sam, and the school’s Mi’gmaw Elder, Jen. With charming illustrations and simple storylines, this decodable series engages students as they practise their reading skills. Each book includes a pre-reading review of non-decodable words, and many of the books introduce special words related to Indigenous teachings. Talking Together prompts facilitate discussions led by the reading teacher. 

Developed in partnership with Dyslexia Canada, Cedar School Decodables is a series of 20 decodable books for young readers. Designed for students who have previously learned short vowel and consonant sounds, additional phonic skills are developed progressively throughout the series.

The series will be accompanied by Cedar School Decodables Teacher’s Guide and a series of four picture books, which will be available at a later date.

Additional Information
16 pages | 6.5” x 5.5” | Paperback | ISBN: 978-1-77174-636-6