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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.
Kelsey L. –
My students cannot wait to get their hands on these books each week.
Lisa P. –
Obvious that a lot of thought and precision went into this series, couldn’t be happier with this product,
Grace Oldridge –
All of Christina’s products are extremely organized and well thought-out. I love the variety you get when you purchase this. The detailed lesson plans, blending line resource, reading passages and comprehension questions, even how to videos! Thank you thank you for another wonderful resource.
Melissa B. –
These are such a game changer for a teacher whose been around and is having to rethink how to shape reading groups to align more with SOR! Thank you for making it so easy to find the phonics pattern!
SecondwithSanson –
I enjoy this, and my kids love doing it. Thank you!!
Dual Language treats –
Great resource! my students liked it and made my life a bit easier!
Sherri H. –
This is a great resource to provide students with decodable text. It helped my students feel and be successful. Thank you.
Mrs Moore’s Muggles –
This resource is perfect for our literacy center rotations. The decodable texts are perfect for my students who are emergent readers, still learning to read CVC words and a few heart words. I plan to continue to use this resource all year long!
Jessica W. –
I love this resource for my small groups! My students enjoy the books
Christine Hemmah –
These are a great addition to my phonics and small group time.
Laura M. –
This is a great product. I love that the lessons are clear and easy to follow. The students also enjoyed listening to the stories and following along.
Roz W. –
My students are loving these books! They take them home and share them with their families!! I’ll be using these all year long!!
Eizabeth T. –
So happy to have these to go along with my lesson. A great resource!
Michael P. –
We are aligning with SOR and I need more decodable readers for my students! I have been eyeing these for awhile and I’m so happy with my purchase!
Meagan Hawkins –
It is hard to find quality decodables. I love that I can print these and send them home with students to keep for practice without losing out on money by using decodables from a publishing company!
Sarah A. –
These books have been excellent for decodable practise and as a home reading program.
Sherry T. –
I love these books and how they are organized by phonics skills. I used these every week in my 1st grade class.
Hallie F. –
These are wonderful. Our new reading curriculum does not have decodables for 2nd grade, so I found these and downloaded the preview. I loved the easiness of them. I am using them as part of my center work throughout the week. One day one, students highlight the skill and circle HFW and practice reading in Seesaw. I definitely recommend these if you are needing something extra to help your students.
Kelsie Y. –
Love these! Well designed resources that are very student friendly.
Buyer –
From one of my favorite TpT authors. Includes lots of decodable books working on specific phonics patterns. Great supplement to the adopted curriculum.
My first grade students enjoyed using this resource to support our adopted curriculum. This resource was used to provide fun and much needed practice. They were engaged and grew in their skills and knowledge. I look forward to using this resource again this year with a new batch os students. Anytime I can add a game or activity to cement new learning is a bonus. Thank you for this resource.