Scholastic Decodable Readers is a 4-level learing program which helps accelerate children’s word identification skills and achieve greater mastery in early reading skills. Each level has 20 sequenced books that gradually increase in level of difficulty. Level A features+ Initial Consonants+ Phonograms+ Short Vowels+ Consonant Vowel Consonant* Helps children associate alphabets and distinguish how the alphabets are pronounced phonetically.* Introduced children to vocabulary in context and with visual aids.* Builds foundation in recognizing, pronouncing and reading vowels, consonants and word families. Wiley Blevins is an early reading specialist. He graduated from Harvard and has written numerous reading programs and books for teachers. Wiley has conducted educational research on topics such as phonics, fluency, and using decodable text.