Description Developed with Wiley Blevins, Newmark Decodable Readers provide critical and meaningful practice, informed by the Science of Reading. Zeke had a garden, but one day a mule came and start eating his plants. He tried to stop the mule but nothing worked, till an ant came up with the solution. Practice the sound of Long U and Long E in CVCe, and inflectional endings -ed & -ing, including dropping final -e.