Browse Keep Reading and Learning’s collection of decodable passages with comprehension questions, complete lesson plans, worksheets, and targeted activities.
Looking for decodable passages that actually come with everything you need? Each resource in this collection includes a full text passage, flexible one to five day lesson plans, vocabulary flashcards, worksheets, a writing assignment, and a comprehension quiz, so there’s no extra planning required. These passages are Orton Gillingham-aligned and organized by phonics skill, making it easy to find exactly what your first grade, second grade, or intervention students need right now.
Skill: Glued Sounds with -ng and -nk
2 decodable passages with comprehension questions, complete lesson plans, worksheets, and targeted activities:
- Bunk Beds
- The Odd Thing
Featured words include fangs, thing, sing, lungs, and wing.
Aligns with Wilson Substep 2.1 and Fundations Level 1 Unit 7.
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Skill: Closed Syllable Exceptions
3 decodable passages with comprehension questions, complete lesson plans, worksheets, and targeted activities:
- The Wild Colt
- A Bash for the Pals
- The Old Deck
Featured words include jolt, old, bold, post, mold, mild, and find.
Aligns with Wilson Substep 2.3 and Fundations Level 2 Unit 3.
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Skill: Consonant Blends
2 decodable passages with comprehension questions, complete lesson plans, worksheets, and targeted activities.
- The Skunk
- Chip and the Clam
Featured words include scrub, swing, strap, craft, and brick.
Aligns with Wilson Substep 2.5 and can be used with various Fundations Units in Levels 1 and 2.
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Skill: 3 Sounds of Syllable -ed
2 decodable passages with comprehension questions, complete lesson plans, worksheets, and targeted activities:
- Jack’s Plane: features mainly one syllable, closed syllable words (e.g. landed)
- The Train Car: features all six syllable types and includes multisyllabic words (e.g. transformed)
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Skill: VCV Syllable Division Pattern
2 decodable passages with comprehension questions, complete lesson plans, worksheets, and targeted activities:
- Let’s Take a Trip!
- Bagels at the Cabin
Featured words include travel, solo, frozen, tropics, hotel, and bacon.
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Skill: VCCV and VCCCV Syllable Division Patterns
2 decodable passages with comprehension questions, complete lesson plans, worksheets, and targeted activities:
- Grandma’s Attic: Features simple words like attic, napkin and jumbo
- The Traffic Problem: Features words with blends, like nonstop, collect, and splendid
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Skill: Multisyllabic Words Across All 6 Syllable Types
2 decodable passages with comprehension questions, complete lesson plans, worksheets, and targeted activities.
- Books for the Kids
- The Basketball Barbecue
Featured words include exercise, calculate establish, and obstacle.
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“This is a wonderful resource combining practice decoding phonics and using text evidence to support comprehension answers. Thank you!” -Dawn N.
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