More About This Resource
These Science of Reading-aligned decodable books with comprehension questions and explicit teacher lesson plans are the perfect resource to support your beginning readers. Each decodable story is a phonics-based controlled text that contains target phonics skill words, previously taught phonics skill words, and irregular high-frequency words. The science of reading shows us that the connection between what our students learn in phonics and what they read is imperative for building a strong foundation in early reading.
This resource contains 60 illustrated, decodable books that align with a research-based systematic phonics scope and sequence. Skills include short vowel CVC, blends, digraphs, CVCe, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels and diphthongs. Explicit lesson plans for each book are provided for the teacher with activities to use before, during and after reading to strengthen students’ phonics skills. The resource includes two different versions of student printables and audio recordings for each passage to ensure you can easily differentiate based on students’ needs. These printable decodable books come in black and white and in color with illustrations by Christian Garvey of Pinewood Press.
Using these decodable books and lesson plans, students will reread the decodable text to build fluency, discuss the text to build comprehension skills, and write about the story to apply and transfer their phonics skills to their writing.
Included in this resource:
- 60 illustrated, decodable books
- Research-based, detailed classroom use suggestions for the teacher
- 2 decodable books for each story (Color and B&W)
- 60 Explicit teacher lesson plan
- 240 Differentiated student printables – includes comprehension questions and connecting text to writing
- 60 Audio recordings
- 60 Blending lines printables & instructional video for the teacher
Phonics skills included:
- short a
- short i
- short o
- short u
- short e
- l blends
- s blends
- r blends
- final blends
- 3 letter blends
- digraph ch & tch
- digraph sh
- digraph th
- digraph wh
- digraph _ng
- CVCe a_e
- CVCe i_e
- CVCe o_e
- CVCe u_e
- CVCe e_e
- open syllables – one syllable words (ex. hi, so)
- long vowel a (ai, ay)
- long vowel e (ee, ea)
- long vowel o (oa, ow)
- long vowel i ( _y, igh)
- long vowel u (u, ew, ue)
- r-controlled ar
- r-controlled er, ir, ur
- r-controlled or, ore
- variant vowel short oo
- variant vowel long u (oo)
- diphthong ow, ou
- diphthong oi, oy
- complex vowel /aw/: aw, all
- long i and o (ie, oe)
- long e (y, ey, ie, ei)
For more decodable readers, check out my decodable passages bundle.
Class with Ms. Cunniff –
Great resource! It was easy to use, well organized, and helpful for my students. I appreciate the time and effort that went into creating it. Thank you!
Lonnie S. –
This resource is helpful for phonics practice. The stories are engaging and keep kids attention.
Carla A. –
Perfect for small group! My students loved black and white versions to colour themselves.
A Cup of Teaching –
This is perfect for my small group centers! A great resource!
karen T. –
I really like the “Decodable Books Small Group Reading Activities” by Lead in Literacy. The passages are clear, engaging, and aligned with the Science of Reading. They are great for small group instruction and help students build strong decoding skills. The activities are easy to use and support student growth in reading.
Felicia C –
This decodables bundle is great! My students have found them engaging. They have already asked me to make sure that we use them next year too. Even my upper elementary students with severe reading disabilities have responded positively to these. Good selection and another quality resource from Lead in Literacy! Thanks 🙂
Stacie Watson –
These were perfect to use with the whole class. I also sent them home for extra practice.
Joyous Jangles –
It’s so hard to find good decodable texts and also prep engaging effective lessons to use with the boods. I love that these resources are aligned to Wiley Blevins work which I respect. These books make good literacy instruction easy to implement.
The Primary Sprinkle –
These decodables are great to use for small groups and intervention time. I love the different levels of comprehension and responses.
Alyssa B. –
These books and the plans and printables were perfect for running small phonics groups in my classroom! Thank you!
Meghan Cameron –
This resource was a fantastic support for teaching French phonics through the Science of Reading approach. The texts were clear, structured, and helped build strong foundational skills. My students stayed engaged and made great progress!
Alycia D. –
This was a useful resource, thanks for creating it!
Jamie P. –
This is a great resource for practicing learned phonics skills. The students enjoy these readers!
Emily Simmons –
Great resource! Easy to use! I will continue to use this!
Emily L. –
I use these decodable mini-books to supplement the curriculum (95% Group Phonics Lesson Library) for my reading intervention groups. My students find them so engaging. They frequently ask to read these “books”, which they seem to prefer to the typical one-page stories from our phonics curriculum. These illustrated decodables are particularly helpful for my ML students. The illustrations help support the meaning of the text (great for ML students with emerging English vocabulary) without being a crutch for students to guess at the words.
RJ’s Shop –
Great resource for the varied needs of my small groups.
Kelsey S. –
I am so thankful for these decodable books. I love that my students are building stamina and confidence in reading.
sangeeta S. –
Hi, the zip file blends and diagraphs the slays the destination path is too long. Rename the compressed folder. With renaming I was able to download the CVCe books but not for Blends. Please help with this. I had purchased this earlier in the year.
Christina –
I am happy to help but do not have access to your email through tpt, can you please send me a quick message and I’ll get right back to you! -Christina
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Jazmin D. –
These books are perfection. I love that they are more challenging than other decodables I own.
Shelley M. –
A great addition to my decodable library! My students love them.