Podcast
Teachers talk about how they use decodable texts in their classrooms to practice the strategies students are being taught in this podcast (listen on SoundCloud).
Decodable texts
What are decodable texts?
Decodable texts are specifically written for beginning readers as they are developing their blending and segmenting skills and their knowledge of the alphabetic code. Decodable texts support students as they practise by using a continuous meaningful text.
Decodable texts contain a very large percentage of words that incorporate the letter-sound relationships that students have been taught. Decodable texts increase in complexity as the student learns more of the phonetic code.
Watch the following video for a brief explanation of the purpose of decodable texts.
Decodable texts in the classroom
This series of videos explains the role of decodable texts in developing reading skills and provides classroom examples.
You get good at what you practise
A look at decodable texts
Using decodable texts in the classroom
Decodable text example
Classroom resources
Decodable texts for phonic learning sequences are available via the
Universal Resources Hub (staff only).
- Phonics sample sequence of phonemes
- ar, a learning sequence
- e,u,r learning sequence
- i, n, m, d learning sequence
- g, o, c, k, ck learning sequence
- h, b, f, ff learning sequence
- j,v,ve learning sequence
- l, ll, ss, z, zz learning sequence
- ng, y, y learning sequence
- or, ore, aw learning sequence
- ow, ou, oa learning sequence
- oy, oi learning sequence
- s, a, t, p learning sequence
- sh, ch, th, th learning sequence