Say the word. Build the word Write the sentence with the word. These sentence mats will help early readers to help consolidate decodable words. Work on their early sentence writing skills, as well as using decodable words within a sentence. This will give children the opportunity to master their decoding skills in the context of a sentence. Repetition enables an early reader to use their skills over and over again until the are independent enough to use the skills without the need to scaffold.