Seasonal Decodable Texts for 2nd Grade | All Seasons and Holidays Bundle

This set of seasonal decodable texts will help your 2nd grade students practice their decoding skills! These decodable passages and lesson plans cover topics from every season, including: National Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month, Labor Day, Rosh Hashanah, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Kids Music Day, Halloween, Day of the Dead, Thanksgiving, hibernation, New Year’s, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Valentine’s Day, spring on the farm, St. Patrick’s Day, Women’s History Month, Earth Day, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, picnics, camping, Flag Day, Father’s Day, National Yo-Yo Day, Canada Day, Independence Day, National Postal Workers Day, 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:

• 56 decodable texts (14 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:

• Digraphs (1 passage)
• Digraphs and CVCe (1 passage)
• Initial blends (2 passages)
• Ending blends (1 passage)
• Ending blends and CVCe (1 passage)
• Initial and ending blends (1 passage)
• Initial blends, ending blends, and CVCe (1 passage)
• Glued sound words (5 passages)
• Glued sound words and CVCe (1 passage)
• Double final consonants with short vowels (3 passages)
• Inflectional endings -ed, -ing, -s (4 passages)
• Long vowels in closed syllable exceptions (6 passages)
• Prefixes and suffixes (1 passage)
• R-controlled vowels (4 passages)
• Vowel teams and long vowels (10 passages)
• Diphthongs (1 passage)
• Multisyllabic words (13 passages)

Passage topics:

• Fall (2)
• Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month (September)
• Labor Day (1st Monday in September)
• Rosh Hashanah (September)
• International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19th)
• National Dessert Day (October 14th)
• Indigenous Peoples’ Day (2nd Monday in October)
• Kids Music Day (1st Friday in October)
• Halloween (October 31st)
• Day of the Dead (November 1st and 2nd)
• National Adoption Month (November)
• Veterans Day (November 11th)
• Thanksgiving (4th Thursday in November)
• Hibernation
• December holidays (one passage that covers Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa)
• Nobel Peace Prize (given in December)
• National Fruitcake Day (December 27)
• New Year’s (January 1st)
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Chinese New Year
• Eat Brussel Sprouts Day (January 31)
• Rosa Parks
• Groundhog Day (February 2nd)
• Valentine’s Day (February 14th)
• Abraham Lincoln / U.S. Presidents Day
• Spring on the farm
• Bike safety
• Women’s History Month (March)
• Holi
• St. Patrick’s Day (March 14th)
• World Storytelling Day (March 20)
• World Autism Month (April)
• Stress Awareness Month (April)
• Eid
• Earth Day (April 22nd)
• Mother’s Day
• Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May)
• Mental Health Month (May)
• Memorial Day, U.S.
• Picnic
• Camping
• U.S. Flag Day (June 14th)
• Father’s Day (June)
• National Yo-Yo Day (June 6th)
• Child Vision Awareness Month (June)
• Safety Month (July)
• Canada Day (July 1st)
• U.S. Independence Day (July 4th)
• National Postal Workers Day (July 1st)
• National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day (August 4th)
• Back to School (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.