Book construction with die-cut holes demonstrating readily decodable words in ongoing story
The present application is a book construction, designed to be used in multiple children's books, utilizing strategically placed die-cut holes in an ongoing story that can deliver structured and intentional practice in decoding words. This includes identifying alphabet letters, identifying sounds assigned to letters, and identifying sounds assigned to recognizable letter patterns. Every book targets a different recognizable letter pattern and this pattern will be the targeted base for decoding an entire set of words in each book as the story unfolds. Each die-cut hole will split a word into an initial letter sound and the sound assigned to the recognizable letter pattern. Blending these two sounds together creates a new word. The meaning of the new word may be more readily apparent as it appears in the context of a complete sentence in an ongoing story.
1. A book construction designed to create readily decodable words in an ongoing story comprising:
(a) a curated set of rhyming words wherein the constituent rhyming sound is formed using an identical letter pattern which will become a targeted pattern for decodable words in a book wherein the set of rhyming words is inclusive enough that an ongoing story can be told using each word on a different page in a sentence that will appear on consecutive left-hand pages of the open book;
(b) a strategically placed series of aligned die-cut holes that cut through sequential pages to expose the targeted pattern each time it appears in the new rhyming word through the individual die-cut hole on the left-hand side of the open book;
(c) the targeted pattern is printed once on a left-hand page near the front of the book, wherein it becomes visible through each individual die-cut hole as the kinetic motion of turning a right-hand page over to become a left-hand page of the open book is completed;
(d) an initial letter/letters of the rhyming words printed on consecutive left-hand pages to be vertically and horizontally aligned in front of the targeted pattern when it becomes visible through the die-cut holes wherein the letter/letters will appear together with the targeted pattern as the new single word in the sentence that is intrinsic to advance the plot of the ongoing story;
(e) additional words, deliberately included in the story wherein the same constituent rhyming sound occurs using the targeted pattern, to be printed in a different color ink from the rest of the words in the text to support the recognition of the targeted pattern; and,
(f) a back cover that contains one of the aligned die-cut holes that makes visible the targeted letter pattern as a standalone, pronounceable sound that will form a base for the decodable words in the book.