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.
Julie Hunt (verified owner) –
I printed my first book out and the folding was easy! Thanks for the directions. I printed the first set out and will be using them to practice the skills we are learning. So excited to have more decodable text with comprehension questions!
Teri Adams (verified owner) –
This is the first product that I have purchased in YEARS, and this is my 32nd:) As a reading specialist, I love the fact that the lessons are so intentional, and when planning for a guest teacher, I can be sure that students are still getting quality reading intervention! Easy to use and stories are cute!
Deidre Clavin-Boyle (verified owner) –
This was a great resource to purchase. You can use them for all reading groups. All the students will benefit from these wonderful books and comprehension questions.
jpb5005 (verified owner) –
I attended the 4 day SOR training and my world has been changed. I am a kindergarten teacher however my 1st grade daughter is struggling. After the training, I purchased these decodables and started working with her myself. She has gained so much confidence in a few shortd days. She loves reading these books. You can see the amount of work Christina put into these.
Christina –
Oh my goodness, you don’t understand how happy this feedback makes us!! We are so glad you could join us for the training and love the decodables also!! Keep up the great work with your daughter! -Christina
C Garrett (verified owner) –
So happy to add to my collection of decodable books! Watching the joy on children’s faces as they make those connections between sounds and letters and read accurately and successfully (rather than the old way of guessing) is so rewarding! Thanks Christina for these – your hard work is really appreciated !
Tiffany Hickman (verified owner) –
I love all of Christina Winters products! I was struggling finding decodable readers that aligned with the skills that we were learning and these are perfect for that! I use them for my small groups and the kids love when it is time for their group. I highly recommend them!
mbedard (verified owner) –
Christina’s products are so great! I am working on specific phonics skills for a few different groups so I turned to Mrs. Winters Bliss decodables and found just what I needed! My students love to read them! They are a must have!!