Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Crab Trab Book Review

Crab Trap
Written by: Nora Gaydos
Illustrated by: BB Sams
Published by: innovativeKids, 2001
ISBN: 1-58476-073-7


This book is about an angry crab who puts ham and jam on a mouse trap. He ends up catching a rat, and the rat is not happy about it!

This is an easy to read decodable text. The focus of this text is the short a sound. There are also sight words such as the as well as and. Finally, the text uses some consonant blends, especially tr and cr

I like how at the end there are questions for the reader, such as "what are other words that rhyme with ham?" 

I would give this book a 5 out of 5 for decodable texts. The pictures are great and the sentences are easy while still focusing on the sounds.

2 comments:

  1. The short 'a' sound seems really fun to read. I had fun reading the description. I can see a child really enjoying themselves learning to decode with this title.

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  2. The illustrations and colors in these decodables seem to be a little higher quality than some of the other decodables we looked at in class.

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