How to Use Decodable Texts // Creating Lessons with Decodable Readers

Are you wondering how to make meaningful lessons with decodable texts? In this video, I share what decodable texts are, some of my favorite places to find decodable texts, and 5 tips for using decodable readers in your own classroom! Just click play to watch.
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[@tracylayne9918]

I have started binge watching all your videos! I am hairstylist turned to a homeschooling mom. I have fell in love all educational things!! I feel like I should have been a K-5 teacher now!! It’s my new passion to teach!!! I love all your content and I have learned so much from you! Thank you for sharing your wisdom!!

[@alexandramoss9531]

Thanks, super helpful!

[@kathywagner5895]

Love listening to your videos Susan!!! Thanks for making them!

[@rebekahduncan8403]

Thanks for this video topic! It helped clarify some questions I had. I usually use decodables with my lowest ability group for intervention so that they are very short texts and have them go back at the end and highlight skill words. I usually use the copyable books so they can highlight and code words and then keep them.

[@hattierobinson347]

Thank you for explaining how to use decodable readers. I get mines from TPT that have the questions at the end of the passages. We also review the word patterns before we read. I look forward to your videos each Sunday. Blessings

[@alexandraumana99]

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this videos that are so engaging and enlightening. Your sharing your knowledge and simplifying rich information for application in practical ways are deeply appreciated. ✨ I’m a great fan of your channel, always looking forward to the next videos 😃thank you!!! 🌹🙌
Ps. I’m a second grade teacher from California.

[@likeastarinyourheart]

Hello Mrs. Jones, I like your videos because they give me ideas and help me to prepare better for my classes. 😁this 2022/23 school year I will be working in a preschool and I will need a lot of help with materials and ideas for my class. ❤ thanks 🌼 blessings

[@mardelwarren5446]

I like to have my students go back and highlight the skill we are working on after we read the book. I really like your white board idea when it is a book that cannot be written on. Another thing I do with those books is to use mini erasers (that you can get in the Target dollar section) and I have my kiddos put the eraser right above or right under the word that shows the targeted skill. It works well for my students who are tactile and they get very excited (and I think more engaged), especially when I use holiday/seasonal erasers.

[@alexandraumana99]

Thank you so much for sharing your videos, they are very engaging and informative. 🌹🙌 I appreciate very much the tips you named, they simplify everything for the skills to be applicable in practical ways. Always looking forward to your videos. You’re amazing✨
Ps. I’m a second grade teacher from California

[@cynthiabaker2794]

This helped me so much! Thanks!

[@veronixawardwell8802]

Great help!!!

[@DaylePrice-NahaniWayPS]

Great video! What do you recommend as the ideal number of students in a small group?

[@annelamontkey1876]

If I’m following my scope and sequence for grade 1, very early in the year we get into digraphs. So based on assessments 75% of my class has the alphabetic principle down solidly, then they are all ready for digraphs. At that point I would really need my decodable book lesson to be essentially whole group. Otherwise I’m pulling three small groups and teaching them the same skill, and my fourth group is my lower one where we are still working on alphabetic principle. How would you make small groups with this class? By April, they may be more spread out in their skill mastery, so then it’s easier to make small groups.

[@debreale5236]

Do you have any thoughts about secret stories?

[@hildabarga2612]

Susan I just bought them but I can’t print them ?

[@melissadelboccio212]

Thoughts on Bob books? Are these considered decodable ?

[@chasingawesomeness7648]

I love Bob Books for Kindergarten and early First grade!!