Sets are broken down as follows:

• Search for Sounds (Set 1) – Wordless books introducing letter sounds for kindergarteners.
• Friends and Family Fun (Set 2) – CVC patterns for grades K–1.
• Things We Like to Do (Set 3) – Consonant blends for 1^st grade.
• Activities with Friends (Set 4) – VC-e patterns for 1^st grade.
• Discover Plants and Animals (Set 5) – Vowel patterns for 2^nd grade.
• Fables and Folktales (Set 6) – Advanced vowel patterns for 2^nd grade.
• Code Breakers (Fiction) – Vowels, prefixes, suffixes, multisyllabic words.
• Code Breakers (Nonfiction) – Vowels, prefixes, suffixes, multisyllabic words.

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For decodable titles in particular, it is important to read each title in a specific order to help build spelling patterns and word recognition.

All covers will show the specific phonics focus and the book number, for easy reference. Additionally, the back cover will provide a breakdown of titles within the series, the order in which the books should be read, and the phonics focuses that will be taught in each title.

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Search for Sounds (Set 1) includes illustrations with focus letters in the corner. Kids will identify images within the illustrations that start with the letter.

Notes for educators to reference as they work their way through the pages searching for words with the focus sound are included in the back of each book.

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Interior layouts for sets 2–6 feature simple text along with photos, illustrations, or both.

To further enhance the spelling patterns, each book will include a word list that highlights specific phonics focus words, high-frequency words, and challenging words.

The Search for Sounds set is designed to help students develop phonemic awareness within the context of story and picture. Students are presented with wordless books and have fun finding items in the pictures that highlight target sounds.

Each sound’s related letter is also on the page in a clear lowercase font.

Cumulative read-aloud texts, found in the back of the book, linked to the pictures are read by the teacher and present social studies and science concepts of interest to young children.

Some of the books include recurring characters exploring the topics while others are more typical nonfiction.

Interest will be generated as your students work to isolate, identify, and link the sounds to words.

Series Information:

8 NEW titles

Book Features:
• Lists of suggested words/sounds to search for
• A note to the caregiver

Pages: 16
Non-Fiction; Illustrated Pictures

Titles Include:

• Terrific Transportation – Consonants with sound in initial position of letter name: b, d, j, k, p, q, t, v, z
• Wonderful Weather – Consonants with sound in the final position of letter name: f, l, m, n, r, s, x
• Come to the Farm – Consonants with sounds that overlap another letter: c, g
• Wasps, Hornets, and Honey Bees – Consonants with a name with no sound: h, w, y
• Alphabet Authors – Vowels: a, i
• Oh! Animals – Short vowels: o, u
• Enchanting Nature – Short vowel: e
• A Zany Zoo Visit – Consonant and Short Vowel Review

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Recurring characters and familiar contexts such as home or a park are mixed with humor, action, and fun. Readers will cheer as Ben gets a new pet or Zack sees a whale. Students will be excited to explore this series of decodable books for early readers.

Each cumulative book is for readers just beginning to decode words. The books begin by introducing the short vowels one at a time within a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern.

Later books encourage the readers to incorporate consonant digraphs into their blending.

Limited high-frequency words and supportive pictures help the reader successfully navigate the text while they practice essential decoding skills.

Series Information:

12 NEW titles

Book Features:
• A word list organized by Focus words, High-Frequency words, and Challenge words
• A note to the caregiver

Pages: 16
Fiction; Illustrated Pictures

Titles Include:

• Sam Naps – CVC short-a
• Tim Has a Fit – CVC short-i
• Bob Jogs – CVC short-o
• Mutt and Pug – CVC short-u
• Ben Gets a Pet – CVC short-e
• The Vet Has a Party – CVC all vowels
• Chet Goes to the Beach – CVC ch digraph
• Chet and Shan Find Shells – CVC sh digraph
• Thunder at the Beach – CVC th digraph
• Zack and Chet on the Dock – CVC -ck digraph
• Zack and the Whale – CVC wh- digraph
• At the Beach – CVC all short vowels and digraphs

This series of decodable books for early readers explore activities that offer a mix of the familiar and a little bit new. Each cumulative book helps readers learn to incorporate consonant blends and key suffixes in their reading.

The books introduce each new blend while incorporating patterns that were previously taught in this set of books and earlier Decodables sets.

Examples of high-frequency words are also included.

The Things We Like to Do set offers intriguing books with ample opportunities to practice the central blend.

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Series Information:

8 NEW titles

Book Features:
• A word list organized by Focus words, High-Frequency words, and Challenge words
• A note to the caregiver

Pages: 16
Fiction; Full-Color Photographs and Illustrated Pictures

Titles Include:

• Swimming at the Lake – Consonant blends s_ blends
• Camping with Grandma and Grandpa – Consonant blends _r blends
• Blake Digs for Clams – Consonant blends _l blends
• Sounds of the Band – -ng blends
• Hank Plays Ice Hockey – -nk blends
• Let’s Craft a Suncatcher – Final blends
• Mom’s Guitar – Three-letter blends
• Hank Plays Pickleball – All blends

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Activities with Friends is a set of six delightful decodable books designed to provide young readers with chances to work with long vowels in vowel-consonant-e pattern words.

The cumulative stories are peopled with a recurring set of young friends who have lots of fun playing and exploring together.

Readers will feel right at home as they discover the friends’ adventures while also discovering their talents as decoders of long vowel words.

Series Information:

6 NEW titles

Book Features:
  • Lists of Focus Words, High-Frequency Words, Challenge Words
  • A Note to the Caregiver

Pages: 16
Fiction; Illustrated Pictures

Titles Include:

• Nate and Jane Bake a Cake – VC-e (a_e)
• Mike’s New Kite – VC-e (i_e)
• Rose and Hope Help Joe – VC-e (o_e)
• June and Luke Play Tunes – VC-e (u_e)
• At the Theme Park – VC-e (e_e)
• The Friends Go to Camp – VC-e review

Discover Plants and Animals focuses on developing readers’ decoding skills using several different vowel teams and the suffix y, while they also learn about various plants and different animal habitats.

Each nonfiction book offers a range of text features such as table of contents, glossary, index, and fun facts.

The books provide practice blending words containing specific vowel teams as well as interesting scientific information in cumulative order.

Readers will gain confidence as they progress through these beautiful, informative, and fun books.

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Series Information:

9 NEW titles

Book Features:
• Table of contents, Glossary, Index, and Fun Facts
• A word list organized by Focus words, High-Frequency words, and Challenge words
• A note to the caregiver

Pages: 24
Non-Fiction; Full-Color Photographs

Titles Include:

• Squeak and Cheeps: What You See and Hear in Animal Homes – Vowel teams (ea, ee, ey)
• From Seed to Seed: The Mighty Oak Tree – Vowel teams (oa, oe, ow)
• Habitats Big and Small: Where Animals Call Home – Vowel teams (ai, ay)
• Gardens in the Moonlight: What Plants Do at Night – Vowel teams (ie, igh)
• From Roots to Bloom: Plants Have a Purpose – Vowel teams (oo, ue)
• Baby Animals in Their Homes – (y as a vowel, suffix -y)
• The World of Bamboo – Vowel teams in two syllable words
• What’s Down There? – Vowel teams review
• Yellowstone National Park: A Natural Wonder – Vowel teams review

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Fables and Folktales offers illustrated retellings of nine classic fables and folktales. Some will be familiar, others new. Students explore r-controlled vowels, diphthongs, vowel teams, the -le syllable, prefixes, and suffixes while learning life lessons. Each book includes a glossary, a caregiver note, and a focus word list.

Series Information:

9 NEW titles

Book Features:
• Glossary
• Word list (Focus, High-Frequency, Challenge words)
• Note to the caregiver

Pages: 24
Fiction; Illustrated Pictures

Titles Include:

• The Greedy Dog – r-controlled vowel (-ar)
• The Camel, the Deer, and the Horse – r-controlled vowel (-or)
• The Lucky Bird – r-controlled vowel (-er, -ir, -ur)
• The Boy Who Cried Wolf – Diphthong (oi, oy)
• The North Wind and the Sun – Diphthong (ou, ow)
• The Tortoise and the Hare – Complicated vowel team (au, aw, oe)
• The Spindle, the Shuttle, and the Needle – -le syllable
• Henny Penny – Multisyllabic words
• The Ugly Duckling – Prefixes and suffixes

Code Breakers is a series designed to support older readers who have not yet broken the code of decodable reading. Each book provides the opportunity to practice early phonics sounds using engaging, age-appropriate fiction about science projects. Students develop skills with vowels, prefixes, suffixes, and multisyllabic words.

Each book includes a glossary, a note to the caregiver, and a focus word list organized by Focus words, High-Frequency words, and Challenge words.

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Series Information:

10 NEW titles

Book Features:
• Glossary
• Word list (Focus, High-Frequency, Challenge words)
• Note to the caregiver

Pages: 24
Fiction; Illustrated Pictures

Titles Include:

• Gabe and the Space Race – VCe
• Skyler Explains Space Trash – Vowel Teams / y as a vowel
• Richard Reports Storms – r-Controlled Vowels
• Roy Toils in the Soil – Diphthongs
• August Draws Astronauts – Complicated Vowel Teams
• Isabelle’s Ramble Through the Clouds – -le Syllable
• Missy Discovers Earthquakes – Prefixes
• Valarie’s Beautiful, Bright Gems – Suffixes
• Tristen’s Super Day with Thunderstorms – Prefixes
• Career Day with the Class! – Suffixes

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Code Breakers is a series designed to support older readers who have not yet broken the code of decodable reading. Through carefully selected words and high-interest topics about space science, readers can practice early phonics sounds while learning about planets, stars, and galaxies.

Each nonfiction book includes a glossary, a note to the caregiver, and a focus word list organized by Focus words, High-Frequency words, and Challenge words.

Series Information:

10 NEW titles

Book Features:
• Glossary
• Word list (Focus, High-Frequency, Challenge words)
• Note to the caregiver

Pages: 24
Nonfiction; Full-Color Photographs

Titles Include:

• Moons – Vowel Teams / y as a Vowel
• Our Star – Long Vowel Review
• Stars – r-Controlled Vowels
• Comets and Asteroids – Diphthongs (oi, oy, ou, ow)
• Space Exploration – Complicated Vowel Teams
• The Planets – -le Syllable
• What They Believed in the Past – Prefixes (dis-, in-, mis-, over-, pre-, un-)
• The Milky Way and Other Galaxies – Suffixes (-er, -est, -ful, -ly)
• Not Quite a Planet – Prefixes (bi-, im-, mid-, mono-, non-, post-, super-, tri-, under-, uni-)
• Leaving the Earth – Suffixes (-able, -ee, -er, -ist, -less, -or, -y)