Phonics Lessons for Reading A-Z Grade K Decodable Books

 

These explicit phonics lessons are written for Reading A-Z's Grade K decodable books from their major update in 2020. Do you already have our old Reading A-Z lessons?* If so, for a limited time, we have this new file on sale. We've updated the lessons, added a could great new things - including SIGHT WORD CARDS! 

Although these decodable books are listed under Grade K according to Reading A-Z, these lessons and decodable books make for fabulous phonics lessons in GRADES K-2 TIER I, TIER II, and TIER III levels of phonics instruction. They would also make for great lessons and text for phonics interventions in grades 3 and beyond. We suggest to align the lessons with your current sound-spelling scope and sequence provided by your district or core reading program. 

Note: This download INCLUDES LESSONS and DOES NOT INCLUDE THE DECODABLE TEXT, as those are found at Reading A-Z.  There is a free trial that allows you to download a limited number of books, check it out! Many principals are more than willing to buy schools or your classroom a subscription as well. It never hurts to ask! 

Included in this download:

• A Scope and Sequence of Reading A-Z's Grade K decodable books
• Lots of teacher helps, PD, and tips!
• 33 CVC Lesson Cards (short a, e, i, o, u, and short vowel mix)
• 3 Consonant Blend Lesson Cards (s, r, l blends)
• 4 vCe Lesson Cards ( a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e)
• 5 Consonant Digraph Lesson Cards (sh, ch, wh, th, ph)
• Printable Sight Words Cards for ALL 45 Lessons - NEW!!
• File folder labels for each lesson - Formatted to print on Avery File Folder Labels
• Links to helpful Youtube Videos from us!

*Many of these lessons are an update from our older download of the old Reading A-Z scope and sequence. However, we've added a couple new things to the lesson cards, have provided sight word cards, updated the new text numbers to align with Reading A-Z, added the new lessons, etc.... See our old download, but it is out of date. Reading A-Z made quite the change in their K, 1, 2 decodable books and text! We are excited for the many new books & text they have over their K-2 scope and sequence. 

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Sight words: What and Why

Let us clear up the confusion between "sight words", "high frequency words", and "irregular words".  We will make this clear and you will be on your way to choosing the right words to teach from great lists (like the Zeno 107) and from texts your students will be reading.

NEED Sight Word TEACHING RESOURCES? These might help!

Sight Word Games!

Need help knowing what words to teach as high frequency/sight words? We have a FREE sight word pack that includes everything you need to get started on teaching and assessing the BEST sight word list there is, The Zeno 107! 

We also have many games for you broken up into four different packs. These games will help your students learn these sight words in fun ways.  No more drill and kill!  These engaging sight word practice activities and games can be used in small groups, centers, or for fast finishers.

The 107 Zeno Words make up over 50% of all the words we encounter in the texts we read!  That is huge when it comes to impact on kids reading fluency.  Let us help you get started making that impact.

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What, Why, and When of Beginner Phonics Lessons

New YouTube Video!

Throughout the early grades there are a few major components that are critical when learning to read: phonemic awareness, the alphabetic principle, and text reading. When these components are linked together, taught explicitly, applied to word blending and text reading, they create powerful weapons in the fight against illiteracy! In this short video, we discuss the importance of these components in the early grades, and provide some understanding that is necessary for explicit phonics instruction to young children.

Zeno Words
Phonics Resources

Sight Words Assessment and Practice using the 107 Zeno High Frequency Words - "Biggest Bang for your Buck!"

This short list of 107 words make up more than 50% of the words we encounter in text. That is a worthy list to teach!

Reading is comprised of both knowing words at sight and decoding. It is about 50/50 reading words at sight versus decoding in the early stages of reading. Thus, decoding skills are very important, but being able to read words at sight is also necessary. One thing that teachers spend a lot of time on is teaching sight words.

The Zeno 107 word list will give you, the teacher, the “biggest bang for your buck”. I recommend this list as the main (perhaps the only) list of sight words that you teach until you come to other sight words in your text reading, then you teach those in preparation for reading text.

Zeno, S. M., Ivens, S. H., Millard, R.T., & Duvvuri, R. (1995). The educator’s word guide. New York: Touchstone Applied Science Associates, Inc.

Our Sight Words pack is now available on TPT! CLICK HERE

What we have provided in our SIGHT WORDS Download…
•Student word card lists
•Assessment Tools
•Student’s Spelling Dictionary
•Spelling Practice
•Word Wall Words
•Flashcards
•Games