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Free decodable texts
Below is a list of some of the online decodable texts for Australian classrooms available on third-party websites in March 2023. While many of these
are always free, some are only free for particular periods of the year. Check each provider’s website for details.
Be mindful that some texts are linked to a commercial program and are often complemented by a program-specific phonics progression and
learning activities. Before using, check the texts and sequences to ensure they match your phonics progression. Remember the purpose of
decodable texts is to support students to decode with words containing only those letter–sound correspondences that they have been taught.
Professional learning on decodable texts
Find out about choosing and using decodable texts in your classroom through professional learning on the Literacy Hub.
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Department of Education.
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SPELD (SA) Phonics Readers – Beginning readers Follows the Jolly Phonics Sequence
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Indigenous contexts
New series
Set 1:s, a, t, p,i, n
Set 2:c, k, ck, e, h, r, m, d
Set 3:g, o, u, l, f, b
Set 4:ai, j,oa,ie,ee, or
Set 5:z, w, ng, v,oo(book),oo(room)
Set 6:y, x,sh,ch,th(think),th(that)
Set 7:qu,ou, oi,ue,er,ar
Set 8:y (sunny), a (apron), a-e (cake), e (female), e-e (eve),i(silent),i-e (kite),
o (open), o-e (home), u (student), u-e (tune)
Set 9:ay (play),ey(they), oy (toy), y (mystery),ea(dream),ie(chief),
y (dry),igh(night)
Set 10:oe(toe), ow (rainbow), ow (now),ir(bird),ur(turn),ew(few),
au (launch), aw (paw), al (talk)
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Multiple books for each sound set
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Teaching notes
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Fluency word lists
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Templates for follow-up tasks
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Online access
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PowerPoint option for interactive
whiteboard or printing
Moon Dogs at Home series Older readers at
early stages of reading
(8 to 14 years)
Follows the Sounds Write Sequence
Book 1: a, ai, ay, a-e and ea for the sound ae
Book 2: ee, e, e-e, ea and y for the sound ee
Book 3: o-e, ow, o, oa, and oe for the sound ow
Book 4: er, ur, ir, or and ear for the sound er
Book 5: ow and ou, oi with the spellings oi and oy
Book 6: oo, ou, ew, u, ue, and u-e for the sound oo
Book 7: igh, I, i-e, ie and y for the sound ie
Book 8: or, ore, aw, au, al, ar, awe, a and ough for the sound ar
Book 9: air, are, ear, ere and eir for the sound air
Book 10: ar, a, al, ear and au for the sound ar
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More mature themes
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Teaching notes
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Fluency word lists
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Templates for follow-up tasks
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Online access
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Printable PDFs
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Half-Pint Kids Beginning readers Level A:Sights and Sounds
Introduces all consonant sounds, short vowel sounds and 33 sight words
Level B:Blends and Ends
Introduces16 blends and digraphs and 24 sight words
Level C: Moving-A-Long
Introduces 16 blends and digraphs and 4 sight words
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Fluency word lists
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Irregular word list
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Comprehension questions
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Templates for follow-up tasks
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Online access
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Printable PDFs
Flyleaf Online Materials Beginning readers Part 1:VC and CVC words
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Fluency word lists
Please note you will need to
Part 2:CCVCC words (blends)
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Irregular word list
download SMART notebook.
Part 3:Compound words
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Templates for follow-up tasks
Part 4:Multisyllabic words
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Online access
Part 5:Words with endings
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Printable PDFs
Part 6:Foundational skills consolidation
Part 7:Consonant digraphs
Part 8:Long vowels with silente
Part 9:Single long vowels and patterns and soft c and g
Part 10:R-controlled vowels
Part 11: Vowel digraphs
Part 12: Variant vowel digraphs
Part 13: Diphthongs
Part 14: Advanced letter–sound correspondences
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Starfall Learn to Read Beginning readers Book 1: an, at
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Online games linked to each text
Online version Book 2: en, et
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Audio option included
Print version Book 3: ig, ip
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Templates for follow-up tasks
Book 4: ot, og
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Online access
Book 5: ug, short vowel sounds
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Printable PDFs
Book 6: silent e, long a sound
Book 7: ee and th
Book 8: silent e, long i sound
Book 9: silent e, long o sound
Book 10: silent e, long u sound
Book 11: oa, vowel teams
Book 12: ar
Book 13: or
Book 14: er, ir, ur
Book 15: y as long e sound
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Phonics Play comics Beginning and
older readers
Phase 2:
s, a, t, p
i, n, m, d
g, o, c, k
ck, e, u, r
h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss
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Comic strip format
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Make your own comic template
included
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Links to Phonics Play website
(online games)
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Online access
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Printable PDFs
Phase 3:
j, v, w, x
y, z, qu
sh, ch, th, ng
ai, ee, igh, oa
oo, ar, or
ur, ow, oi
ear, air, er
Phase 4:
CVCC
CCVC
All prior phases
Phase 5a:
ay, ou, ie, ea
oy, ir, ue, aw
wh, ph, ew, oe, au, ey
split digraph e
Phase 5b:
Alternative pronunciations for i, o, c, g, u, ow, ie, ea, er, a, y, ch, ou, ey
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Open Source Phonics:
Decodable stories
Older readers
(8 years plus)
Group 1: Short-syllable stories
Group 2: Silent e stories
Group 3: Open- and closed-syllable stories
Group 4: First vowel team stories
Group 5: R-controlled vowel stories
Group 6: Snow, cow and cloud stories
Group 7: Consonant -le stories
Group 8: ‘Y’ as a vowel stories
Group 9: Soft c and g stories
Group 10: Advanced phonics stories
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More mature themes
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Teaching notes
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Single-page passages
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Focus on quotation marks
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Text only (no pictures)