Seasonal Decodable Texts for 1st Grade | All Seasons and Holidays Bundle

This set of seasonal decodable texts will help your 1st grade students practice their decoding skills! These decodable passages and lesson plans cover topics from every season, including: Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month, Labor Day, Rosh Hashanah, National Taco Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Halloween, The Day of the Dead, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, New Year’s, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Valentine’s Day, rain, St. Patrick’s Day, Women’s History Month, Earth Day, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, swimming, Flag Day, Father’s Day, Summer Solstice, Canada Day, Independence Day, watermelon, going back to school, and more. 

These materials will help your students:

• Practice specific phonics skills in context 
• Develop strong decoding skills
• Learn to recognize high frequency words in context
• Experience reading SUCCESS!

Here’s what’s included:

• 57 decodable texts (14-15 for each season)
• 1 lesson plan per text
• 1 writing prompt per text
• 1 set of comprehension questions per text
• 1 graphic organizer per text
• color and black and white versions of every item

Skills covered:

• Short vowel CVC words (3 passages)
• Digraphs (3 passages)
• Initial r-blends (1 passage)
• Initial s-blends (1 passage)
• Initial l-blends (1 passage)
• Mixed initial blends (5 passages)
• Consonant blends with short vowels (7 passages)
• Glued sounds (6 passages)
• Double final consonants (2 passages)
• CVCe / silent e words (16 passages)
• R-controlled vowels (5 passages - some of them also review silent e words)
• Vowel teams (7 passages)

Passage topics:

• Fall (2)
• Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month (September)
• Labor Day (1st Monday in September)
• Rosh Hashanah (September)
• National Elephant Appreciation Day (September 22nd)
• National Taco Day (October 4th)
• Indigenous Peoples’ Day (2nd Monday in October)
• National Bullying Prevention Month (October)
• Halloween (October 31st)
• Day of the Dead (November 1st and 2nd)
• National Diabetes Month (November)
• Veterans Day (November 11th)
• Thanksgiving (4th Thursday in November)
• Winter temperatures
• How families celebrate holidays differently, with different traditions
• December holidays (one passage that covers Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa)
• World Computer Literacy Day (December 2)
• National Letter Writing Day (December 7)
• Boxing Day
• New Year’s (January 1st)
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Kid Inventors Day (January 17)
• Australia / Australia Day
• Groundhog Day (February 2nd)
• Valentine’s Day (February 14th)
• U.S. Presidents Day
• Maya Angelou
• Spring storms
• The water cycle
• Women’s History Month (March)
• Holi
• Ramadan
• St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th)
• World Autism Month (April)
• Bring Your Child To Work Day (April)
• National Robotics Week (April)
• Earth Day (April 22nd)
• Mother’s Day
• Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May)
• May Day (May 1)
• Memorial Day, U.S.
• Summer fun
• Solar eclipse
• U.S. Flag Day (June 14th)
• Father’s Day (June)
• Summer solstice (June)
• National Eat Your Vegetables Day (June 17th)
• Safety Month (July)
• Canada Day (July 1st)
• U.S. Independence Day (July 4th)
• National Ice Cream Day (July)
• National Watermelon Day (August 3rd)
• Back to School (August)
• National Friendship Day (August)
• National Immunization Awareness Month (August)

Frequently Asked Questions:

What scope and sequence or program do these texts follow?

You can use these decodable texts with any phonics program! Please see the list above of the phonics skills addressed in the passages. These passages are great for working on new skills or for reviewing previously-taught skills.

Will these books match my high frequency word instruction?

Your students can be successful reading these decodable texts even if your high frequency word instruction is not a 100% match. Plus, each lesson plan lists out all the high frequency words / irregular words covered in the text, so you can pre-teach any words that students do not already know.

Will this cover all my phonics instruction?

No. These decodable texts are meant to supplement a phonics program, not replace one. You will still need explicit, systematic phonics lessons to teach each sound / pattern. If you need a complete program, check out From Sounds to Spelling.