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.
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!
Crystal M. –
These books were so helpful to my students. Thank you so much!
Sylvie D. –
A great resource to help you transition to the SOR. I love that each book comes with a teacher lesson plan and comprehension questions. My students love bringing these home and for extra practice.
Jessica P. –
My students love this! Very engaging and fun! Thank you!
Decode to Grow –
These decodables have been super helpful in transitioning away from leveled readers with my intervention students. I love the included blending lines for every book and have noticed a big improvement in my students’ fluency. The kids love the QR code option for listening to the books at home, too. So many great options and very easy to print and assemble– definitely recommend!
The Fantasy Classroom –
Thank you for the wonderful resource that I use to support my students.
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 !
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
Vanessa G. –
You can never have too many Decodable books in your classroom collection. My students enjoyed these. Thanks!
kellyann blackman –
A good little resource for reading within the classroom.
Forever in Fifth –
Such a valuable bundle and I loved how they are organized.
Elizabeth S. –
These books are a great way to work on isolated skills for students who may have gaps in their phonics/reading skill set. They are also stories that make sense, not just random words that happen to have the same phonic skill, so they are more interesting to read.
Michele B. –
I love everything Christina makes! She is so wonderful at making phonics products that are engaging, easy to use and aligned with the science of reading! The booklets are perfect for small intervention groups and the kids like taking them home to read to parents. I haven’t tried using them with the whole class yet, maybe soon. For now, I use the passages Christina makes for my whole group phonics lessons. I had to find something to supplement 95% because their passages are just terrible….they use language that is not natural, are too long and rarely make any sense so trying to do comprehension with them is impossible. Thanks to Christina, we have passages and books that lend themselves well to comprehension and not just decoding!
Megan T. –
Great resource! My students loved it! I look forward to using it for years to come.
Svitlana D. –
We use this resource with the EL students. It’s a great supplement to our reading curriculum. Works well for a small group pullout.
Stanna F. –
This was a great addition to my small group and then my students had a their own book that they could read.
Lisa S. –
This is an excellent bundle of decodables. My students enjoy reading them.
Jill Vannini –
These were easy to use and there was high engagement amongst my students. Thanks!
Kelly H. –
Looking at my TPT account you can really tell I’m a big fan of Mrs. Winter’s materials. These decodable are perfect for my small group intervention.
Christina –
Thank you so much for your support Kelly! Reach out if I can help with anything! -Christina
Kristie Falls –
These decodable are so great with my emergent readers. The benefit a variety of age groups and help me with differentiation. I like the simple picutes and the books are easy to make.