🔡Sixty decodable CVC stories to read, cut and paste back in order, grouped by short vowel, with word mapping and heart words. Fifty stories have three decodable sentences each; the ten Level Up stories have four, with a six-week study plan to run them.
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Beginning readers need stories they can actually read, and these 60 decodable CVC stories are built for that. Each story uses short-vowel words a child can sound out, and each ends with a cut and paste strip so the child puts the story back in order: First, Next, Last. Stories 1–50 have three decodable sentences each, and the ten Level Up stories have four. The stories are grouped by short vowel — ten each for short a, short e, short i, short o and short u — so a teacher can teach one vowel a week and the stories follow the lesson.
Reading the story is only half the work. After reading, the child cuts the sentence strips apart and pastes them back in order, which turns sequencing into something their hands do. The five Map the Words pages, one per vowel, add a word bank, pictures, sound boxes and handwriting lines, so the same words get mapped, sounded out and written. A Heart Words and Decodable Words page and Story Word Lists for all 60 stories keep both word lists in one place.
The set is built to run as a routine. Teacher pages carry a 6-Week Study Plan — one short vowel a week, then Level Up — plus teacher notes on making file folder centers, so the stories can live in a center as well as in a small group. Student extras include a Reading Tracker for all 60 stories, Write My Own Story and a Super Reader certificate. An answer key is included for every story and every Map the Words page.
The pages are black and white on US Letter paper, and the listing states 79 pages. The grade range is PreK through 1st grade in the cover, the description and the listing's Highlights field.
📖 Teaching guide · 13 min readDecodable CVC Stories: Read, Sequence and Map Short Vowel WordsRead the guide →A decodable story a child can actually read is the whole point of phonics, and the cut and paste strip makes the child prove they understood it. Read it, cut it, put it back in order — the sequencing is the comprehension check, and it needs no grading.
It is written for PreK through 1st grade. The cover, the description and the listing's Highlights field all state PreK–1st.
60 stories in total. Stories 1–50 have 3 decodable sentences each, grouped by short vowel: 10 each for short a, short e, short i, short o and short u. Stories 51–60 are Level Up stories with 4 sentences each.
Each story comes with a cut and paste strip. Stories 1–50 use First, Next, Last, and the Level Up stories use First, Next, Then, Last. The child reads the story, cuts the strips apart and pastes them back in the right order.
Yes. There are 5 Map the Words pages, one per vowel, with a word bank, pictures, sound boxes and handwriting lines, plus a Heart Words and Decodable Words page and Story Word Lists for all 60 stories.
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