Decodable books

Exciting. Engaging. Informative.

Seventy decodable books support your student to learn the letter-sound correspondences and high-utility words taught throughout the program.

Exciting, engaging, informative – the decodable books match the teaching sequence of skills and knowledge that supports students to put what has been learnt into practice. Your students have many opportunities to practise decoding and word recognition as they develop fluency.

Module One focuses on teaching common letter sounds of the alphabet and is accompanied by 30 decodable texts supporting the practice of sounds and letters, and high-utility words.

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Three sets of engaging illustrated books follow the activities of the characters. Each set of 10 books features children living in different environments: rural, inner urban and suburban.

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In Modules Two and Three, the texts are paired – informative and narrative – and follow the sequence of the phonic focus of each lesson in the Teacher Resource Book.

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Teaching notes in the back of each decodable book focus on phonics, fluency and comprehension.

Decodable content words or words with the phonic focus are identified.
High-utility words from each text are identified.
Accurate word reading to develop fluency is encouraged.
Literal, inferential and evaluative comprehension questions are provided.

Module 1 – Units 1-3

Students need accurate and automatic recall of the names of the alphabet letters, both upper case and lower case.

The focus of the decodable books in Module One is common sounds of consonants and vowels. Knowing that each letter has a sound supports beginning reading and writing.

The rich narrative that weaves throughout the books comes from setting each unit of books in a different environment – rural, inner urban and suburban, and a separate set of central characters in each unit.

Unit 1

Unit 2

Unit 3

Module 2 – Units 4-5

Flying Start to Literacy: Phonics Module Two introduces double letters, consonant digraphs, adjacent consonants in one-syllable words, vowel sounds with different letter combinations, the silent e and morphology (adding prefixes and suffixes and making compound words).

In Module Two, the Units Four and Five decodable books can be read at the end of each lesson. Each book contains words with the letter–sound correspondence the students have just learnt.

The Module Two texts have been created as pairs – an informative and a narrative text. Both books address the same concept so your students have two opportunities to read and talk about the shared concept, build topic knowledge and develop understandings. This is a valuable tool in the development of reading comprehension.

Unit 4

Unit 5

Module 3 – Units 6-7

Flying Start to Literacy: Phonics Module Three introduces vowel sounds with less common letter combinations: r-controlled vowel sounds, consonant digraphs and trigraphs, the /j/ sound when g comes before e, i and y; the /s/ sound made when c comes before e, i and y and morphology (adding prefixes and suffixes to create polysyllabic words and compound words).

In Module Three, the Units Six and Seven decodable books can be read at the end of each lesson. Each book contains words with the letter–sound correspondence the students have just learnt.

These texts have been created as pairs – an informative and a narrative text. Both books address the same concept so your students have two opportunities to read and talk about the shared concept, build topic knowledge and develop understandings. This is a valuable tool in the development of reading comprehension.

Unit 6