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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.
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Trisha Newton –
I have been using the passages right now and love the blending lines that go with it as well as comprehension piece.
Kristine Schellenger –
This resource is AMAZING. I come back to these books again and again for whole class instruction as well as small group reteach. I absolutely love these!
Wendy B. –
My students loved this! Thanks for such a great resource!
Shanna S. –
I am so excited to use these with my students. My county is going SOR and these are perfect!
Structured in Primary –
I cannot wait to use this resource with my tutoring students, the lessons are complete and allow for differentiation.
The Cheerful Teach –
I have had this decodable library saved to my wish list for such a long time. I finally bought it and wish I had earlier. I LOVE these Decodables! They are so easy to print and I love the one-page passage and questions that come with them for each book!
Rebecca T. –
Great resource to use with students in interventions!
Stephanie T. –
This resource is extremely thorough. It provides support with so many skills all in one lesson. The QR codes have been very helpful for my multi language families. This allows me to practice with the passages at school and also feel comfortable sending them with students for practice at home.
JILL W. –
I love these decodable books. I use them in small groups and also send them home as homework. I like the QR codes on the books. Great resource!
Heather L. –
What a wonderful resource to add to my decodable readers collection.
JESSICA G. –
The books have a practice sheet at the end of the story that can be used for fluency as well as comprehension questions. LOVE these for grade 1!
Mary Larsen –
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Lisa B. –
Great for practice at home and for guided reading groups.
Doreen M. –
Excellent books, students really enjoyed them and they were great for small group or read to a partner.
lori G. –
I loved using in small groups. Students loved it!
Suzanne P. –
Great tool for students. I love having decodable passages that help my students practice the skills they have been learning in small group.
Ashley H. –
This has been a great resource for my small group reading table. It has made planning so easy and gives students lots of opportunities to practice the skill.
Stacey D. –
Love these decodable books. Use them in small group intervention and also send home the reading with questions for homework.
Kristin S. –
A great resource to add to my take home decodable library.