Decodable Readers

Grade Levels: K-3

Students are increasingly demonstrating the need for support in Foundational Skills to become proficient readers, hence the importance and need for quality decodable texts starting in kindergarten.

Open Court Reading is a research-based core reading program with a wide range of components.

Open Court Reading pre-decodables help students learn print concepts and provide essential reading practice with high-frequency sight words.

Open Court Reading decodables provide fluency practice though controlled, connected text.

Perfect for use as stand-alone readers, these high-quality readers are ideal for use in class, or as take-home readers. BLM Take-Home books offer an alternative to sending home the printed books. Each story incorporates phonics elements and high frequency words.

• Using decodable text in the earlier stages ensures that students have the skills to read without guessing.
• English is an alphabetic language, which means it does have phonetic rules that all students can master by the end of Grade 1.
• These books are especially important for struggling readers and students with dyslexia because they provide reading practice using the knowledge of letter-sounds that are taught explicitly in a scaffolded, multisensory approach.
• Decodable books are needed until students master the code; after that, they can read anything!