I See Sam

Story Summary:

In his encyclopedia, Mat the Rat discovers a picture of a real lion and learns many things about lions. Mat sees what a real lion looks like, where he lives and what he eats. Mat is so excited that he wants his friend Sam, who is a lion, to read about the lions too.


This is the first book in the series of beginning readers from ReadingTeacher.com.The story is read along so your child can listen to the text or read independently. This story is geared toward children grades P-3.


New Sounds in Book 1

/a/  /m/  /s/


New Words

I, see - Special Words

Sam - decodable



About the Reading Teacher series: The 100 books in the series use systematic phonics to ensure that your beginning readers will get a great start in reading proficiency. The books begin at a very simple level and gradually introduce new sounds and words until students have mastered all 44 phonemes (sounds) in the English language. Since 2013 this series has been downloaded over 636K times!

The books should be read in order because the sounds and words in each book build upon those learned in previous books. It is important that students master each book before moving on to the next.
Each new word throughout the program is repeated at least 5 times in the book in which it first appears and 5 more times in the next 10 books.


For more information about the series and additional teaching and learning material please visit Readingteacher.com