Using Seasonal Decodable Passages to Boost Reading Skills
A Science of Reading Approach
As educators, we’re always looking for creative and effective ways to engage students and improve their learning outcomes. One method that has proven to be both fun and effective is the incorporation of seasonal themes into reading activities. Not only do these themes captivate students’ interests, but they also enhance their comprehension skills. If you’re looking to elevate your reading curriculum, especially with a focus on phonics and fluency, seasonal themes might be just what you need.
Why Seasonal Themes?
Seasonal themes tap into the natural excitement students feel about holidays and seasonal changes. Whether it’s fall maze, winter snow, spring rain, or summer sun, these themes create a relatable context for students. This relevance makes the reading material more engaging, which in turn boosts comprehension.
Phonics and Fluency through Repetition that Engages
Seasonal themes also provide an excellent opportunity to reinforce phonics and fluency. For instance, winter themed passages might include repetition of consonant blends like “ow” in “snow.” A summer themed passaged might include “ow” in grow.
By focusing on these phonetic patterns within a fun, themed context, students can practice and master the sounds more effectively without feeling that it is redundant. Many students are naturally excited about the seasons, so this makes it easy to add necessary repetition to improve fluency in young readers.
Contextual Clues for Decoding
Seasonal themes can provide valuable contextual clues that aid in decoding unfamiliar words. For instance, a passage about winter activities might include terms like “snow,” or “sled.” These context clues help students infer the meaning of new words and enhance their decoding skills. Understanding words in context is crucial for building a robust vocabulary and improving overall reading fluency.
How Our Seasonal Decodable Reading Passages Bundle Can Help
To seamlessly integrate seasonal themes into your curriculum, our Seasonal Decodable Reading Passages Bundle provides an easy to implement solution. These passages are designed with a focus on phonics and fluency while incorporating engaging themes that resonate with students throughout the year. It is geared for differentiating instruction to meet various student needs in the primary classroom and covers CVC Words to Multi-syllable Words.
Science of Reading Aligned
Our decodable passages are structured to align with the science of reading, ensuring that your students are developing essential reading skills. Each passage is crafted to reinforce phonics, improve fluency, and build comprehension through repetition, word patterns that lead to orthographical mapping in their minds, and thematic vocabulary.
What’s Included in Our Seasonal Decodable Passages Bundle?
Our bundle offers a comprehensive range of resources designed to cater to different learning needs throughout the year. Here’s a snapshot of what you’ll find:
Over 130 Passages: The bundle includes decodable passages for every season and more—back to school, fall, winter, spring, and summer. Each passage is crafted to match specific phonics skills and reading levels.
Skill Progression: Passages range from CVC words to more advanced patterns, ensuring that students can build their skills progressively. For instance, CVC passages introduce basic decoding, while later passages incorporate blends, digraphs, and vowel teams.
No Prep Convenience: Our passages are designed for ease of use, with no preparation required. Simply print and use them in your classroom or at home.
Differentiation Options: Various versions of each passage accommodate different skill levels and line options, making it easy to differentiate instruction for kindergarten through second grade.
Comprehensive Coverage: The bundle has you covered from CVC words to even multi-syllable words towards the later part of the school year.
Bonus Resources: In addition to seasonal passages, the bundle also features non-seasonal decodable passages that can be used anytime with word mapping activities to pair with them and improve fluency, a special 100th Day of School No Prep packet that is fun and engaging, and some other seasonal surprises too.
Get this Jam-Packed Bundle for Under $20
A Break Down on Each Packet Included in the Seasonal Decodable Bundle
The Back to School Decodable Reading Packet Covers:
✂️ CVC Words
✂️ Diagraphs
✂️ Blends
✂️ Long Vowel Teams
✂️ Diphthongs
✂️ R-Controlled Vowels
Each one has fluency passages with sounding out and blending words, word work activities, and five options for each passage. This also includes a back to school alphabet chant too.
The Fall SoR Decodable Reading Packet Covers:
🍁 CVC Words
🍁 Diagraphs
🍁 Blends
🍁 Ending Blends
🍁 VCe Patterns
🍁 Long Vowel Teams
🍁 Diphthongs
🍁 R-Controlled Vowels
The Winter SoR Decodable Reading Packet Covers:
☃️ CVC Words
☃️ Digraphs
☃️ Blends
☃️ Long Vowel Teams
☃️ VCe Patterns
The Spring SoR Decodable Reading Packet Covers:
🐝 Short Vowel CVC Words
🐝 Digraphs with Short Vowels
🐝 Double Consonants with Short Vowels
🐝 Beginnings Blends with Short Vowels
🐝 Beginning & Ending Blends with Short Vowels
🐝 3 Letter Beginning Blends with Short Vowels
🐝 Long Vowels Silent E
🐝 Long Vowel Teams
🐝 Inflectional Endings
🐝 Diphthongs
🐝 R-Controlled Vowels
🐝 Double Consonant Multisyllable Words
The Summer SoR Decodable Reading Packet Covers:
🏝️ Short Vowel CVC Words
🏝️ Digraphs with Short Vowels
🏝️ Double Consonants with Short Vowels
🏝️ Short Vowel Digraphs Ending with -ed
🏝️ Beginnings Blends with Short Vowels
🏝️ Beginning & Ending Blends with Short Vowels
🏝️ Ending -ed Word with One Syllable
🏝️ Long Vowels Silent E
🏝️ Long Vowel Teams
🏝️ Diphthongs
🏝️ R-Controlled Vowels
🏝️ Compound Words
🏝️ Open Multisyllable Words
Three Non-Seasonal Passages and Word Mapping Packets
Celebrate the 100th Day of School No Prep Bonus
Celebrate the 100th day of school in a memorable way and save time making it fun and educational with this No Prep 100th Day of School resource!
Includes:
⭐ Glass Craftivity
⭐ Crown Craftivity
⭐ 9 Math Printables including 100s chart activities, skip counting, etc.
⭐ One Hundred Years Old Birthday Writing Craft
⭐ 2 Writing Prompts
⭐ 3 Leveled Mini-Readers
⭐ Draw or Show 100 Activity
⭐ Exercise to 100
⭐ 100 Day STEM or Alternative Square Drawing Activity
⭐ Photographed Directions for the Crafts
⭐ A Digital Version of Most Activities in Google Slides Format
Do You Like Surprises
I have some fun bonus surprises included too. It’s something that can be used in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade classrooms.
Get this Comprehensive Science of Reading Bundle for under $20...say What?
Fully true. This is actually nick named the Give Back Bundle. I took my best seller, the 100th Day of School No Prep packet and upgraded it with a ton more resources that are science of reading aligned as a way to give back. Since files at TPT can be downloaded again anytime, anyone who previously purchased this resource received all the new additions for free. 😮🤯
But to give back to future buyers too, I have kept this price below $20. I actually sell the individual packets at The Candy Class too, and they add up to over $60 in value. But with the purchase of the bundle, you get everything for under $20.
It’s a fantastic way to access high-quality, science-aligned reading materials while making a meaningful investment in your students’ literacy development at an affordable cost to you. It’s The Candy Class way of giving back to teachers and impacting the lives of children through providing rich reading materials that aid in the development of literacy.
Be sure to grab this bundle to enhance your students’ literacy skills while engaging them with fun seasonal themes.
