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.
V N. –
This is a great resource with a terrific range of decodable books. Thank you
Susan L. –
Good resource for students. I liked the different printable options available.
Teri Adams (verified owner) –
This is the first product that I have purchased in YEARS, and this is my 32nd:) As a reading specialist, I love the fact that the lessons are so intentional, and when planning for a guest teacher, I can be sure that students are still getting quality reading intervention! Easy to use and stories are cute!
Helen M. –
These are carefully written decodable readers. My students really enjoy them. The support materials are very good too.
Mommybeech –
This is a great comprehensive resource! I used it in my autistic classroom.
Becky R. –
Love these decodables they are helping my students so much with reading.
Amy M. –
This is a great resource! It is engaging and we use it in our home reading program!
Michelle I. –
These are great! The stories are really great for students to practice reading phonics skills we are learning. They are engaging and fun stories. Thank you!
Denise W. –
Amazing resource! Just what I was looking for to support SOR phonics instruction with my upper elementary students with dyslexia with decodable readers! Thank you! 🙂
Patricia A. –
My students love having their own book in their hand. I love how easy they are to print and put together.
Sarah M. –
Fabulous resource to provide students accessible texts as they build their reading skills.
Barbara O. –
We love the decodable books and passages. They go with her word assessment and phonemic awareness bundles for first grade. It all goes so well together and students are learning, growing, and reading!!
QuadPay Q. –
This is a great resource for my students to practice the individual decoding skills that they have learned in our reading group! Thanks so much!
Kimberly S. –
I am using all of the SoR activities from Winters Bliss! LOVE THEM ALL!
Debbie P. –
I absolutely LOVE this resource! Aligned with the science of reading and love that it also has audio with it!
Hoffman Hedgehogs –
I LOVE this! Thank you so much for creating this! It has helped me guide my students with SOR and making sure I am hitting the important skills to help them become stronger readers/writers!
Amber Olson –
My kids love reading these decodable books. It has really helped boost the confidence in some of my lowest readers as they have been able to read these books more fluently.
Debra F. –
These books are a great addition to the decodable reading passages. I use the passages in class and send the books home for extra practice. Thank you for all of your hard work!
Kelsie H. –
Great early readers that align with SOR to help to further support students reading and comprehension. The QR code is extremely helpful for students to listen at a center or to listen at home
Tracey F. –
My Students loved using this resource they found it easy to use. Awesome for rotations/centres.