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.
Teresa E. –
Easy to use resourcce that my students enjoyed using.
Sandi G. –
Great resource for my students who struggle with typical basal readers. It gave them the confidence they needed to feel comfortable in reading and feel like they could do it!!
Christie A. –
Excellent resource! These booklets are great to use in the classroom for independent reading, small group, and take home reading packets. I find these a great tool to go along with the phonics skill we are working on. Thank you!
The Engaged Classroom with Savannah Lopez –
These were exactly what I needed to help my students develop their skills. Thank you!
Robi Simms –
I’ve been using these as a station. I pull out whatever phonics skill we have been focusing on and give these to the students to partner read.
Ashlea H. –
These are excellent! We use them regularly in my class. Very cute stories and easily decodable.
Sarah R. –
I love that these decodables are organized by spelling patterns and are not dumb storylines! Thank you for a quality product!
kim T. –
These have come in very handy for small group reading.
A G. –
My students love it! It is great for differentiation as well!
Ashley B. –
My favorite aspect of this resource is the one page decodable passages with comprehension questions. I use this for progress monitoring student mastery of specific phonics skills while students read the passage. The addition of the questions allows for introduction of finding text evidence to answer questions and provides an opportunity to practice fundamentals of writing a sentence.
Stacy N. –
Everything you create is wonderful! I so appreciate this resource and all the thought that went into creating such engaging stories. The lesson plan routine is easy to use and keeps me on track. Thank you for all you are doing to make teaching SOR fun and engaging!
1stgradefireworks –
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! After prepping it, my kiddos LOVE it! They choose these for independent reading DAILY!
Courtney B. –
LOVE this product!! I work with 4h and 5th graders with special needs. I’m constantly looking for things I can use with my students are have high academic needs but are not too babyish. My students are still working on decoding at the 1st/2nd grade level. These books are perfect for them!!!! Thank you!!!
Elaine S. –
This resource has helped me to make my reading groups more successful. The decodable books are amazing and I am able to print them and send them home with students, which they love!
Angela R. –
These were so great! Very well done and perfect for helping my struggling kiddos.
Nancy H. –
These are great supplemental materials for my small groups.
Elsje K. –
This resource has helped me to make my reading groups more successful. The decodable books are amazing and I am able to print them and send them home with students, which they love!
Kathy L. –
I am loving this resource. The way these books are printed and folded is really a great idea. The decodable stories are well done. This a valuable resource to use in small group and have a book to take home.
Deborah B. –
My students love using the decodable stories to practice the phonics skill we are working on.
ABCDee –
These are awesome, and just what I was hoping to find. Thanks so much!