✷ Important Note: Please see the skill list below to know what phonics skills are included in the words in these decodable books. These books follow a sequential skill order.✷
They’re perfect for beginning readers because they are printable, require no prep, and include pre-reading and post-reading activities. No worries about germ-sharing here! Every student can have their own decodable reader and extension activities - with limited paper on your end!
About the Printable Decodable Readers
-Each Decodable Reader is made of ONE page. No stapling required. Just print, fold, and go!
About the Extension Activities
-The pre-reading and post-reading extension activities are one combined page. They are no prep. Just fold and go!
Pre-Reading Activities
-Students will highlight the words with the skill being taught both in the reader and on the extension activity page.
-Students will point and read the words with the skill being taught. (decoding practice)
-Students will point and read the sight words. (front loading)
-Students will read the decodable reader three times to build fluency.
Post-Reading Activities
-Students will answer the two multiple-choice, text-based questions.
-Students will write words with diphthongs on the lines provided.
There are 246 books included; each with a pre/post reading activity (shared) page.
⭐️ Remember, these books are decodable, so they focus on words that are decodable and the skill being taught. ⭐️
CVC Books (35 books included)
- short a word families (-at, -ab, -ad, -ag, -am, -an, -ap) - 7 books, 1 for each word family
- short e word families (-ed, -eg, -en, -et) - 4 books, 1 for each word family
- short i word families (-id, -ig, -in, -ip, -it) – 5 books, 1 for each word family
- short o word families (-ob, -og, -op, -ot) - 4 books, 1 for each word family
- short u word families (-ub, -ug, -um, -un, -ut) - 5 books, 1 for each word family
- mixed review – 2 books per short vowel family (10 books total)
Digraphs Books (14 books included)
- beginning ch digraph - 1 story
- beginning sh digraph – 1 story
- beginning th digraph – 1 story
- ending ch digraph – 1 story
- ending sh digraph – 1 story
- ending th digraph – 1 story
- ending ck digraph – 3 stories
- mixed review – 5 stories
Blends Books (33 books included)
- beginning cl blend - 1 story
- beginning gl blend - 1 story
- beginning pl blend - 1 story
- beginning sl blend - 1 story
- beginning gr blend - 1 story
- beginning tr blend - 1 story
- beginning st blend - 1 story
- mixed beginning l blends - 2 stories
- mixed beginning r blends - 2 stories
- mixed beginning s blends - 2 stories
- ending lt blend - 1 story
- ending lf blend - 1 story
- ending lp blend - 1 story
- ending lk blend - 1 story
- ending ct blend - 1 story (due to word availability, there are skill words with more than 1 syllable in this text)
- ending ft blend - 1 story
- ending mp blend - 1 story
- ending ng blend - 1 story
- ending nk blend - 1 story
- ending nd blend - 1 story
- ending nt blend - 1 story
- ending sk blend - 1 story
- ending st blend - 1 story
- mixed ending l blends – 2 stories
- mixed ending n blends – 2 stories
- mixed ending s blends – 2 stories
- miscellaneous ending blends – 1 story
Double Final Consonant Books (18 books included)
- ff - only short vowels and this double final consonant (1 story)
- ll - only short vowels and this double final consonant (2 stories)
- ss - only short vowels and this double final consonant (1 story)
- zz - only short vowels and this double final consonant (1 story)
- ff - words contain blends (2 books)
- ll - words contain blends (2 books)
- ss - words contain blends (4 books)
- mixed review - words contain blends (5 books)
CVCe Books (19 books included)
- a_e – words contain previously taught skills (4 books)
- i_e – words contain previously taught skills (4 books)
- o_e – words contain previously taught skills (4 books)
- u_e – words contain previously taught skills (2 books)
- mixed review - words contain previously taught skills (5 books)
Glued Sounds Books (21 books included)
- ank – 3 books
- ang – 2 books
- ing – 3 books
- ink – 3 books
- ong – 3 books
- unk – 2 books
- mixed review - 5 books
Long Vowel Team Books (47 books included)
- ai – words contain previously taught skills (4 books)
- ay – words contain previously taught skills (3 books)
- ea – words contain previously taught skills (4 books)
- ee – words contain previously taught skills (4 books)
- igh – words contain previously taught skills (2 books)
- ie – words contain previously taught skills (1 book)
- oa – words contain previously taught skills (4 books)
- ow – words contain previously taught skills (3 books)
- oe – words contain previously taught skills (1 book)
- ue – words contain previously taught skills (1 book)
- ui – words contain previously taught skills (1 book)
- ew – words contain previously taught skills (2 books)
- y as a vowel (long e) – words contain previously taught skills (4 books)
- y as a vowel (long i) – words contain previously taught skills (2 books)
- mixed review - words contain previously taught skills (11 books)
R-Controlled Vowel Books (30 books included)
- ar – words contain previously taught skills (4 books)
- er – words contain previously taught skills (2 books)
- ir – words contain previously taught skills (2 books)
- ur – words contain previously taught skills (4 books)
- mixed er/ir/ur – words contain previously taught skills (3 books)
- or – words contain previously taught skills (4 books)
- are – words contain previously taught skills (2 books)
- air – words contain previously taught skills (1 book)
- ear – words contain previously taught skills (2 books)
- our – words contain previously taught skills (1 book)
- mixed review - words contain previously taught skills (5 books)
Diphthong Books (29 books included)
- au – words contain previously taught skills (2 books)
- aw – words contain previously taught skills (3 books)
- ou – words contain previously taught skills (4 books)
- ow – words contain previously taught skills (3 books)
- oi – words contain previously taught skills (2 books)
- oy – words contain previously taught skills (1 book)
- oo – words contain previously taught skills (3 books)
- short oo – words contain previously taught skills (2 books)
- mixed au/aw – words contain previously taught skills (1 book)
- mixed ou/ow – words contain previously taught skills (1 book)
- mixed oi/oy – words contain previously taught skills (1 book)
- mixed oo/short oo – words contain previously taught skills (1 book)
- mixed review - words contain previously taught skills (5 books)