Where to Find Decodables: A Comprehensive Guide for Teachers of Students with Learning Disabilities

Discover a wide range of decodable books and resources for teaching reading to students with learning disabilities. Explore various sources such as educational publishers, online platforms, local libraries, and specialized phonics programs. Enhance your instruction with explicit and systematic phonics resources aligned with your teaching goals.

Miss Rae's Room Where to Find Decodables: A Comprehensive Guide for Teachers of Students with Learning Disabilities

In the journey of teaching reading to students with learning disabilities, decodable books play a crucial role. These specially designed books contain words that are phonetically decodable, enabling students to apply their learned phonics skills. In this blog, we will explore various sources where teachers can find decodables to support explicit and systematic phonics instruction. Let's dive in and discover the wealth of resources available to enhance reading instruction for students with learning disabilities.

FlyLeaf Publishing
FlyLeaf Publishing offers a range of instructional resources, including decodable books, that align with explicit and systematic phonics instruction. Browse their collection to find decodable books tailored to different skill levels, ensuring a progression from simpler to more complex word patterns.
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Just Right Reader
Just Right Reader provides an extensive e-library of decodable books, accessible online. Their digital collection offers a wide range of engaging stories designed to support phonics instruction and reinforce sound/spelling relationships.

Your Local Library
Your Local Library Your local library can be a valuable resource for finding decodable books. Talk to the librarian and inquire about their collection of decodables or ask if they can order specific titles. Collaborating with the local library expands the availability of decodable books beyond the classroom.

Your School Library Advocate for the inclusion of decodable books in your school library's collection. Speak to the librarian or relevant decision-makers, explaining the importance of decodables in supporting students with learning disabilities. By incorporating decodable books into the school library, access to these valuable resources can be broadened for all students.

Reading Street Series 
The Reading Street series offers a variety of decodable stories that align with explicit phonics instruction. Visit their website to access downloadable PDFs of decodable stories categorized by grade level, enabling targeted instruction for your students.

Core Knowledge
Core Knowledge provides a free PDF resource containing decodable books for early readers. These books are specifically designed to support systematic phonics instruction, offering carefully selected word patterns that gradually build upon existing skills.

Additional Core Knowledge decodables can be found HERE, HERE, and HERE.
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Jolly Phonics
Jolly Phonics, a renowned phonics program, offers a range of decodable books authored by Sara Wernham. These books provide engaging stories that align with the program's systematic approach, making them an excellent resource for reinforcing phonics skills.

Half Pint Kids
Half Pint Kids offers a collection of online decodable books and resources. Their materials are designed to support early readers in developing phonics skills, with a focus on explicit instruction and word decoding practice.

Spelfabet
Spelfabet provides a range of decodable books and resources that align with explicit phonics instruction. Their decodable books are structured to gradually introduce new sound/spelling relationships, reinforcing the logic of the alphabetic principle.

Miss Rae's Room Decodables
And click HERE to use my decodables in your teaching!
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Finding decodable books to support the reading instruction of students with learning disabilities is essential for promoting their reading success. By exploring the diverse sources mentioned above, such as educational publishers, online platforms, local libraries, and specialized phonics programs, teachers can access a wide array of decodable books aligned with explicit and systematic phonics instruction.
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Click HERE to use my decodables in your teaching!

Empower your teaching with these valuable resources and help your students develop strong reading skills based on sound phonetic knowledge.

Remember, using decodables in conjunction with explicit and systematic phonics instruction provides a solid foundation for students with learning disabilities to become confident and independent readers.

Now that you know where to find decodables, take the next step and enhance your reading instruction to unlock the potential of every student in your classroom!

And read more by clicking HERE about decodables on my blog - What is a Decodable?

Happy Teaching!
PEACE,
Miss Rae

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