What are decodable texts?
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- Decodable texts emphasize specific phonics patterns.
- They follow a progression, building on previously learned phonics.
- Decodable texts allow students to “tap out” or sound out the words. At least 85% of the words are decodable.
- Get my 900 pages of decodable texts / organizational system with any donation to support the maintenance fees of this unsponsored website.
- Decodable texts provide the BEST way to learn to read!
- Click for Sight Word stories!
UFLI is my #1 go-to! Click the link above for tons of FREE resources! Printable.
- 89 decodable colored books that follow a specific phonetic sequence.
- Each book has worksheets to go with it!
- There are 89 titles.
- 262 FREE sequential lessons!
- 4,400 words!
- 2,100 decodable sentences!
- Do one lesson per day starting in preschool.
- Enlarge each lesson on 10×13 paper, or write words on index cards and drill.
- Practice spelling these words as well!
- Printable.
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3 Part 1
Level 3 Part 2
All printable.
- Beginning Reads connects oral language knowledge with written language.
- Uses highly concrete and phonetically regular words – dog, cat, pet, big.
- Each level has 12 4-page books that share concepts.
- Readers see the same words in many different texts.
- Can be printable or read in color online.
This site has printable booklets.
Free decodable texts for each phonics skill. In the “search for” box, enter “free decodable texts.” Printable.
Printable.
These decodables are sorted by grade level! This resource has Science of Reading in Spanish, too!
These can be colored digital texts or printable. The Boston Public Schools posted this folder of books: “In this folder, you will find 24 texts; eight of them review the skills taught in Fundations Level K and connect to the topics of family and classroom communities. The other 16 texts align with the first 16 weeks of Fundations Level 1 and the topics of Focus on First Units 1 and 2.”
100 pages of short vowel stories. Printable.
Printable.
Printable.
Can be printable or digital.
The Six-Minute Solution – starts on p. 58
Decodable Passages – Reading Practice
All printable.
FREE READING ELEPHANT STORIES
Silent e story 1, silent e story 2, silent e story 3
Check out their other free stories.
All printable.
Can be printable or digital.
This site teaches phonics systematically and in isolation. Great resource! Printable.
Click above for the online version or click here for the print out version! Can be printable or digital.
Decodable Reader: Unit 1 Getting to Know Us (romoland.net)
Long Vowel Express – link is no longer working
Printable.
Really Great Reading “Countdown” (beginning with CVC)
Really Great Reading “Blast” (starting with short a/i with sh)
Both are printable.
Core Knowledge Reader 1
Practice Book to accompany (handwriting, phonics, additional stories, and questions)
Core Knowledge Reader 2
Practice Book to accompany (grammar, phonics, additional stories, and questions)
Core Knowledge Reader 3
Practice Book to accompany (grammar, phonics, additional stories, and questions)
Core Knowledge Reader 4
Practice Book to accompany (grammar, phonics, additional stories, and questions)
Core Knowledge Reader 5
Practice Book to accompany (grammar, phonics, additional stories, and questions)
Core Knowledge Reader 6
Practice Book to accompany (grammar, phonics, additional stories, and questions)
Core Knowledge Reader 7
Practice Book to accompany (grammar, phonics, additional stories, and questions)
Practice books are printable.
Check out this link, too: Core Knowledge
Printable.
Can be printable – look for Download option in top menu.
As of 8/13/24, Geniebooks link was not working. I will try again.
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Treasures Grade 1 Decodables Printable
Journey’s Grade 1 Volume1 Printable
Journey’s Grade 1 Decodable Readers Volume 2 Printable
6 units of Journey’s Decodable Readers
Also, check out 1st grade fluency passages on pages 14-61. They appear to be decodable. Printable.
Treasures Grade 2 Decodables Printable
OR here are Units 4, 5, and 6 in color:
Also, check out 2nd-grade fluency passages on pages 62-121. They appear to be decodable. Printable.
Grade 3 Decodables Printable.
Also, check out 3rd-grade fluency passages on pages 122-182. They appear to be decodable. Printable.
I had a Wonders Grade 4 Decodables link, but the link isn’t working. You can check out 4th-grade fluency passages on pages 183-241. They appear to be decodable. Printable.
Here is a Wonders workbook, but the texts may not be decodable. Printable.
Treasures Grade 5 Decodables Printable.
Also, check out 5th-grade fluency passages on pages 242-301. They appear to be decodable. Printable.
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- 128 FREE UFLI lesson plans WITH decodables and sight words.
- ALL Decodables on One PDF 8-128 (There are no decodables for lessons before 8.)
- Decodables in a mini-version with corresponding trick words
- Scope & Sequence with Heart Words
- UFLI Fluency by Unit-compressed
- L5 – L83 Fluency Triangles
- Sight Word Teaching Order and record keeping
- ALL Roll & Reads 13 – 128 (There are no Roll & Reads for lessons before 13.) #92 is missing from the packet. Here it is!
- Lessons 35a-110 – Stories written on lined paper in strips for a “Hedbanz” game – Google it if you don’t know what Hedbanz is. In a Hedbanz game, a child takes a sentence and does not look at it, but affixes it to his forehead, and another child reads it, and vice versa. These align to UFLI, but I noticed the dialect is not from the United States (for ex., favorite is spelled favourite in one story). OR have the students cut the strips, shuffle, and sequence the stories!
- The letters in each lesson
- UFLI Lesson Links Easy Teacher Access
- Foundations-Home-Practice-K (Includes lessons 5 – 68) and Foundations-Home-Practice-Second (Includes lessons 38a -128.)
- Check out my page, Teaching UFLI at Home, for even more resources!
- Alignment to Common Core State Standards
- UFLI Notebook Covers PDF
TEACHERS! Make a file crate of the lessons – attached are free labels on the UFLI Facebook page called UFLI Foundations Community: Building Strong Readers! Join their FB page! UFLI Labels
I bought the manual ($70), and I teach from that. I have all the UFLI stories run off for the entire program in the crates. Furthermore, I organized my Fundations cards, mouth formation cards, Dollar Tree sight word flashcards, and Orton-Gillingham grapheme cards via the UFLI teaching order. I also made a bunch of Elkonin boxes and put them in plastic sleeves to have the students write the heart words in. This has been the BEST teaching year ever due to this organizational system.
I HIGHLY recommend buying the UFLI manual for $70. It is well worth it and has more lesson specifics than the free slideshow lesson plans! As a reading specialist, this is the #1 resource I use!
