Ten Fat Hens: Short A and E Decodable Reader

Practice the heart words on the cover first, since they cannot be sounded out yet. Read the book together, pointing under each word, then let the child read it again on their own and color the pictures. Finish with the Read and Find page, and staple the pages into a little book to read at home.

8 pages: a cover and 7 printable pages. Page 1: Ten fat hens sat in a pen. Page 2: Meg can see ten hens. Page 3: A hen got wet in the mud. Page 4: Meg set the wet hen on a mat. Page 5: The hen had a nap in the sun. Page 6: Meg can pet ten hens. Read and Find: read ten, fat, hens, Meg, set, wet, nap and pen, then circle the story word in four rows.

Yes. We made it for Kindergarten decodable readers, and it works the same at home or at school. Families print it for one child and keep it where they will use it every day. Teachers print a copy per student or one for the whole room, whichever the day needs.

A decodable reader is a short book where almost every word uses letter sounds the child has already learned, so they can sound out the whole story instead of guessing from pictures.

Short vowel CVC words: one book each for short a, e, i, o and u, and three books that mix two short vowels.

Each book has 8 pages: a cover with the sound and the heart words, six story pages with one or two sentences and a picture to color, and a Read and Find page.

Heart words are common words like the, a and is that cannot be sounded out yet, so children learn them by heart. Each cover lists the two or three heart words in the story.