Book 22: Mat in the Sun Early Reading Scheme, PowerPoint Presentation and a Reading Certificate

Book 22: Mat in the Sun

Review Words
sun - Decodable
them - Special Word
us - Decodable
what - Special Word

Plot Summary
Mat settles down for an afternoon in the sun with a book
and some refreshments Sis joins him and they both doze
off. While they are sleeping ants arrive. Mat and Sis
wake up in time to stop the ant from taking their food.
Then they invite the ants to join them for some cool
lemonade.

Each new word throughout the program is repeated at
least five times in the book in which it first appears and
five more times in the next ten books.

I See Sam Books are a series of early reader books developed to teach children in kindergarten to read. The original series, written in 1972, as part of Southwest Regional Educational Laboratory’s (SWRL) Beginning Reading Program (BRP), contained 52 books. The first book in the series starts with just 3 words: I, see, Sam. Every book or two adds a few words, until by book 52, the readers have read 95 different words. The SWRL Kindergarten Beginning Reading Program was first implemented in U.S. public schools in the early 1970’s. Due to its tremendous success at achieving its goal of teaching young children to read, over the years the program has been copied, edited and/or revised by a number of individuals, institutions, and companies.