Six Days at Camp with Jack and Max: Decodable Chapter Book

Jack Mills and Max Finn are excited to spend six days at camp. Except, they cannot stand each other. And this could turn out to be a disaster. When things get out of control, Jack and Max are forced to work things out on their own. Can these boys be able to overcome the past and become friends?

Scope and Sequence Analysis:

Explore the detailed scope and sequence and read a sample chapter for each title on Simple Words Books’ website.

Step 6: Novice Decodable Chapter Books
Decodability: 90.1%
Word Count: 8,369 words
Chapters: 10

• Irregular – taught: 1,678 words, 17 unique words, 20.1% of the word count. (a, the, to, are, do, of, does, from, they, was, you, have, says, there, what, Mr., Mrs.)
• Short vowels: 2,376 words, 132 unique words, 28.4% of the word count.
• Blends: 962 words, 123 unique words, 11.5% of the word count.
• Digraphs: 926 words, 82 unique words, 11.1% of the word count.
• FLSZ: 456 words, 41 unique words, 5.4% of the word count.
• Double consonants: 220 words, 9 unique words, 2.6% of the word count.
• -ng, -nk: 178 words, 35 unique words, 2.1% of the word count.
• -all: 112 words, 10 unique words, 1.3% of the word count.
• Open syllables: 633 words, 10 unique words, 7.6% of the word count.
• Silent e: 85 words, 5 unique words, 1.0% of the word count.
• Ctr r: 86 words, 3 unique words, 1.0% of the word count.
• Vowel teams: 322 words, 23 unique words, 3.8% of the word count.
• Y vowel: 55 words, 3 unique words, 0.7% of the word count.
• Compound: 31 words, 3 unique words, 0.4% of the word count.
• Multisyllabic: 117 words, 32 unique words, 1.4% of the word count.
• Irregular - other: 114 words, 10 unique words, 1.4% of the word count.
• Pre-teach words: 21 words, 5 unique words, 0.3% of the word count.

Font: Lexend
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Category: Decodable Chapter Book #5 Novice Step
Publisher: Simple Words Books
Author: Cigdem Knebel
Edition: 1 (Minor revisions in 2024)

Finding decodable children's chapter books for older striving readers that are both engaging and age-appropriate for striving and struggling readers, dyslexic students, and older kids can be challenging. The right books that match a child’s reading skills help build a lifelong love of reading.

Simple Words Books are high-interest/low readability (hi-lo), phonics-based chapter books designed for struggling readers, reluctant early readers, and students with dyslexia. Every story is carefully crafted to improve fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, and comprehension while boosting confidence. Our chapter books range from 2,000 to 10,000+ words.

Our “big-kid” early decodable chapter books, readers, and story collections align with many major structured literacy programs and have controlled vocabulary, making them a perfect supplement for classrooms, reading intervention, homeschooling, tutoring, and independent reading.

Our dyslexia-friendly books include a detailed word list by phonics skill at the back of each book. This makes it easier to match each title with the skills the reader is explicitly taught.

When Cigdem Knebel struggled to find high-interest/low-level decodable chapter books a dyslexic child could painlessly read, she began to write one herself for her 7-year-old son. Cigdem is the founder of Simple Words Books (SWB), which are high-interest /low-level decodable children's chapter books. Her mission is to improve fluency, comprehension, and most importantly, reading-confidence of children with dyslexia. She accomplishes this by using many carefully chosen decodable and frequently used words in her books with the skills of young dyslexics in mind. Cigdem believes that all children love to read. This is no different for children with dyslexia; they just need to find that right book for them. And Simple Words Books aspire to be those books.