SPIRE, Set 4B: The Castle

Waaaaa. When siblings Tammy and Alex hear this spooky sound coming from an old, falling-down house called The Castle, they decide to investigate. This S.P.I.R.E.® Level 4 (spire) decodable reader is perfect for beginning readers and those who need practice reading increasingly difficult text. This book includes words that end in -le (bubble, uncle, fiddle, ruffle, juggle, sprinkle, apple, kettle, puzzle).


The S.P.I.R.E. decodable readers were developed as part of the S.P.I.R.E. reading program, created by Sheila Clark-Edmands, M.S.Ed. S.P.I.R.E. is an intensive, comprehensive, and multisensory reading program with proven results. If your goal is to build reading success, then S.P.I.R.E. books are the perfect choice. Children are motivated to read more and enjoy more reading success because S.P.I.R.E. books are designed for the way early readers and struggling readers learn.


There are 120 books in the S.P.I.R.E. decodable readers series. The content ranges in difficulty from easy-to-read, one-syllable, short-vowel words in Sets 1A and 1B to complex multisyllabic words and advanced sentence structures in Sets 6A and 6B.