SPIRE, Set 3B: Big Hippos, Small Hippos

Africa is home to many animals, including the lumbering hippopotamus. Learn about this large mammal and how it takes care of its babies. This S.P.I.R.E.® Level 3 (spire) decodable reader is perfect for early readers and those who need practice reading simple books with basic phonics concepts. This book includes words with multiple syllables.


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.