Welcome to Cedar School! Join Liv, Tom, Gus, and Bell as they learn on the land and explore Mi’gmaw teachings with their teacher, Miss Sam, and the school’s Mi’gmaw Elder, Jen. With charming illustrations and simple storylines, this decodable series engages students as they practice their reading skills. Each book includes a pre-reading review of non-decodable words, and many of the books introduce special words related to Indigenous teachings. Talking Together prompts facilitate discussions led by the reading teacher. Developed in partnership with Dyslexia Canada, Cedar School Decodables is a series of 20 decodable books for young readers. Designed for students who have previously learned short vowel and consonant sounds, additional phonic skills are developed progressively throughout the series. The series will be accompanied by Cedar School Decodables Teacher’s Guide and a series of four picture books, which will be available at a later date. This book is included in the Indigenous Books for Schools database from the Association of Book Publishers of BC. It is recommended for K to 1 classrooms for English Language Arts and Social Studies. In this story, Tom and Liv learn how to collect sap from maple trees. Back at school, Miss Sam heats the sap, and it turns into maple syrup! Mi’gmaq use maple syrup to sweeten their foods and as medicine. Have you ever tasted maple syrup?