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.
Cameron L. –
This is the best decodable set I have purchased from Tpt. The QR codes were a game changer for my bubble (medium learners) who do not always grow as much as my high flyers and low leveled learners. The kiddos were so excited to take their copies home and practice reading with their parents. I also love the differentiation in the bundle. Having writing prompts or just solid lines for the writing component. The passages are easy to make, to read, and build on each other as the students progress through the scope and sequence of the bundle. The comprehension questions helped a lot too. The questions at the end of the passages were a great help as well. My students were mastering comprehension faster than ever before. I highly recommend this resource for any teacher wanting to incorporate the science of reading into their reading curriculum.
Brittany H. –
These stories are perfect! None of them have words that the students wouldn’t have already been exposed to or have any spelling patterns they have not already learned.
Jessica C. –
This is a comprehensive bundle that allowed me to align a complete set of decodables to my phonics curriculum used by the district.
Sharon Rodrigues –
Absolutely love this resource! Engaging and has really helped my little one practice her fluency, comprehension as well as writing!
Lisa B. –
This is a wonderful resource that my students enjoyed using!
Melissa W. –
I use these when I pull my small groups for intervention. These were awesome!! Easy to implement right away!
Aimee W. –
This is an excellent resource! I love that the decodable readers are aligned to the Science of Reading and are easy to use in small groups. The lesson plans make it easier to prepare and follow through with each book. My students are engaged and actually enjoy the stories!
ariana R. –
Love it!!! It was easy to use and the students enjoyed it.
Kerrie H. –
I use this resource for my second graders who are not meeting benchmarks and need some extra practice with phonics and decodables. I was able to have our class assistant pull them in groups frequently since it comes with great teacher instructions. The stories are good and I like the warm up pages beforehand. Recommend!
Jessica N. –
These were a great resources to help us ditch the leveled readers that were currently sitting in our room. Thank you!
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.
MrsReylingsReaders –
I love using this for tier 2 instruction! My students love the stories and the blending lines are so helpful when introducing the book!
Susan S. –
EXCELLENT. SOR resource to use!!!!! I love these little readers. Perfect for small groups or independent reading!
Dana Sudhoff –
Just purchased and this is a great resource! Extremely helpful!
Tessa G. –
Awesome decodables with a phenomenal scope and sequence! Mrs. Winter’s resources are quality!
Doreen G. –
Love the year long bundle of decodable readers. They work great in our small groups. They enjoy keeping them in their reading boxes. Fantastic!
Jenny E. –
The phonics books were a great resource to use in small reading groups with my students!
Jean B. –
My students love these decodable books! Thank you!
Neurospicy Noggins –
I love all the options included! What a great resource!
Melissa B. –
These have been extremely helpful to my 1st graders.