Decodable Books for Early Readers

“Evidence suggests that phonics teaching is more effective when children are given immediate opportunities to apply what they have learned to their reading" (Hatcher, Hulme, & Ellis, 1994). Experts agree that kids need targeted phonics practice in connected text, such as decodable books. 

Decodable text supports systematic phonics instruction and plays a crucial role in supporting striving readers until decoding becomes more automatic and word recognition excels. 

Click here to read about the research on using decodable readers to support phonics instruction.