The Mrs. Black's Class is a set of very short, decodable readings for students who are learning their letter sounds. There are posts for lessons 1-15 of the Phonics Reading Program. Each post is a series of images that can be printed and made into a booklet.
The booklets are not, of course, high quality literature. They let children do some real reading, giving them practice and satisfaction, but kids will need to hear more worthy stories than they are capable of reading on their own. Starting with lesson 10, this program provides simplified pieces of literature and non-fiction in addition to and then in place of the "Spot ran" sort of thing in Mrs. Black's Class. Easy readers should accompany the lessons as soon as children can handle them, and by the time the program's texts peter out, children will (hopefully) be ready to leave such stilted writing behind.
Each booklet has a "cover" page and four to eleven numbered, stick-figure-illustrated text pages. They are meant to be read with a parent, and unlike the text, the titles are usually not decodable. Some students may like the extra challenge of figuring the words out; others may do better if parents read the title.
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