📗Thirty phonics lessons move from single short vowel sounds to CVC words, plurals and compound words, and every sentence and story uses only sounds children have already been taught plus heart words. Each lesson has two levels: decodable sentences first, then a short original story to read three times.
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Little Readers Decodable Sentences & Stories is a set of 30 sequential phonics lessons for kindergarten, with a clear use as 1st grade intervention. The text in every lesson is controlled to the sounds already taught plus a small set of heart words, so beginning readers can decode what is on the page instead of guessing from pictures.
Each lesson comes in two levels. Level 1, Read It!, introduces a new sound with picture support, practices heart words, and gives up to six decodable words marked with sound dots before children read four decodable sentences and draw. Level 2, Read the Story, offers an original decodable story that students read three times, followed by three True-or-Not questions and an illustration.
The lessons follow a planned progression: short vowel sounds and letter-sound correspondence first, then CVC words and heart words, plural -s, an alphabet review, compound words, a short vowel review and a full review. A scope and sequence shows where each lesson fits.
Repeated reading builds fluency on text children can actually decode, and the True-or-Not questions keep attention on meaning. Thirty heart word cards give extra practice with irregular words, and a reading progress log helps track growth over time.
A study plan with a 3-day teaching routine, teacher notes, Super Reader awards and an answer key round out the 71 black and white pages. The set works for small-group phonics, literacy centers, RTI groups, homework and homeschool reading.
📖 Teaching guide · 12 min readDecodable Sentences and Stories in Kindergarten: A Question-by-Question Guide to Small-Group PhonicsRead the guide →Because every word is either decodable from taught sounds or a practiced heart word, children get honest reading practice and early success. The two levels let a group move from sentences to a full story in the same lesson, with repeated readings to build fluency.
The text in each lesson is controlled to sounds that were taught in earlier lessons plus heart words, so children can sound out everything they read.
Level 1 has a new sound with picture support, heart word practice, up to six decodable words with sound dots, four sentences and drawing. Level 2 has an original decodable story, three repeated readings, three True-or-Not questions and an illustration.
Short vowel sounds, letter-sound correspondence, CVC words, heart words, plural -s, alphabet review, compound words, short vowel review and a full review.
Yes. It is written for kindergarten and for 1st grade intervention, and suits small groups, RTI, centers, homework and homeschool. A reading progress log is included.
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