Decodable Readers for Grades K–2

 

Motivate Your Youngest Students with a Classroom Decodable Set They'll Love

 

Ignite a lifelong love of reading with texts that captivate and challenge your Grades K–2 readers! Our collection of decodable texts features a variety of literary and informational texts with which students can begin to build background knowledge as they practice decoding.

 

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Essential Foundational Skills Resource

Offer students opportunities to practice phonics, high-frequency words, and fluency with our highly engaging decodable texts. No matter what reading program you use to teach foundational skills, these sets provide students the practice they need while learning each skill.

High-Quality Decodable Texts

Motivate young students to read with these colorful, grade-appropriate texts on high-interest topics. Through reading both informational and literary texts, students begin to build knowledge about the world around them as they become confident, independent readers.

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“In a sense, what you’re building [by using decodable texts] is a robust decoding strategy, which is what we know skilled readers do.”
—Dr. Heidi Anne Mesmer

Grade K Classroom Decodable Set

This text set is designed to meet the needs of your earliest readers. It offers resources for teaching and modeling early literacy skills, such as concepts of print and letters and sounds. These skills prepare students to read our Grade K collection of decodable Magnetic Readers, which includes words with short and long vowel sounds, final digraphs, and high-frequency words.

The Grade K Classroom Decodable Set includes:

  • Alphabet Tales, our big book filled with fun stories used for teaching and modeling of concepts of print and introducing letters and sounds
  • 26 Alphabet Books for introducing letters and sounds and reviewing concepts of print (includes six copies of each title)
  • 15 Magnetic Readers that draw students in and provide opportunities for young students to practice foundational skills (includes six copies of each title)

Foundational Skills Cards are also included to enhance instruction:

  • Articulation Cards: Practice letters and their sounds.
  • Word Building Cards: Build letter recognition.
  • Sound Spelling Cards: Connect letters with sounds.
  • Super Word Cards: Learn high-frequency words.

Our decodable Magnetic Readers are 100 percent readable when used alongside the Magnetic Reading Foundations scope and sequence. Magnetic Readers can also be used to support other foundational skills programs.

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Magnetics Reading Foundations Grade K decodable library components.




Grade 1 Classroom Decodable Set

Support Grade 1 students as they progress on their journey to skilled reading with our collection of 30 high-quality informational and literary decodable texts. With six copies of each title, our Magnetic Readers are perfect for small group instruction.

Our Grade 1 collection of Magnetic Readers provides students with authentic reading experiences on topics they will love, including friendship, the underwater world, the arts, mysteries, and more!

Each Magnetic Reader includes high-frequency words and phonics skills. The target phonics skills for Grade 1 include a review of short and long vowels before progressing to consonant digraphs and blends, soft c and g, long vowel patterns, r-controlled vowels, diphthongs, and variant vowels.

Foundational Skills Cards are also included to enhance instruction:

  • Articulation Cards: Practice letters and their sounds.
  • Word Building Cards: Build letter recognition.
  • Sound Spelling Cards: Connect letters with sounds.
  • Super Word Cards: Learn high-frequency words.

Our decodable Magnetic Readers are 100 percent readable when used alongside the Magnetic Reading Foundations scope and sequence. Magnetic Readers can also be used to support other foundational skills programs.

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Magnetic Reading Foundations Grade 1 decodable library components.




Grade 2 Classroom Decodable Set

Meet the learning needs and interests of Grade 2 students who are solidifying their foundational skills with this series of 30 high-quality decodable Magnetic Readers. With six copies of each title, our Magnetic Readers are perfect for small group instruction.

Informational and literary decodable texts provide students with authentic reading experiences on connected topics they will love, including getting along with others, making art, habitats, landforms, and more!

Each Magnetic Reader is 100 percent readable and includes high-frequency words and phonics skills. Phonics skills for Grade 2 include a review of previously learned skills as well as a focus on syllable patterns and multisyllabic word reading.

Foundational Skills Cards are also included to enhance instruction:

  • Articulation Cards: Practice letters and their sounds.
  • Word Building Cards: Build letter recognition.
  • Sound Spelling Cards: Connect letters with sounds.
  • Super Word Cards: Learn high-frequency words.

Our decodable Magnetic Readers are 100 percent readable when used alongside the Magnetic Reading Foundations scope and sequence. Magnetic Readers can also be used to support other foundational skills programs.

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Magnetic Reading Foundations Grade 2 decodable library components.




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Magnetic Reading Foundations decodable reader library list.

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Motivate Your Students with Decodable Readers They’ll Love

Learn the skill focus, title, author, and genre of each Magnetic Reader as well as how to use them in your classroom.

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WEBINAR

The Science of Decodables: What the Research Says

Dr. Heidi Anne Mesmer explores the research behind decodable texts and the importance of using them in your reading instruction.

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WEBINAR

The Science of Decodables: How to Use Them Effectively

Dr. Heidi Anne Mesmer explains the purpose of decodable text and best practices for using them in your reading instruction.

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