Winter Holiday Decodables | Seasonal Texts K-2 BUNDLE

This set of winter decodable texts will help your students practice their decoding skills at Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade levels! These decodable passages and lesson plans cover topics like winter solstice, hibernation, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year’s, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Valentine’s Day, 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:

• 43 single-page decodable texts on different holidays that occur during the winter months
• 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:

• VC and CVC words (6 passages)
• CVC words + digraphs with short vowels (8 passages)
• Consonant blends with short vowels (7 passages)
• Glued sounds (6 passages)
• Double final consonants with short vowels (5 passages)
• Inflectional endings -ed, -ing, -s (4 passages)
• Long vowels in closed syllable exceptions (6 passages)
• Prefixes and suffixes (1 passage)

Passage topics include:

• Snow
• Winter solstice
• Hibernation
• Black History Month figures: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Wilma Rudolph, Maya Angelou, Rosa Parks
• How families celebrate holidays differently, with different traditions
• December holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa)
• Chinese New Year
• “Eat a Red Apple Day” (December 1)
• World Computer Literacy Day (December 2)
• National Letter Writing Day (December 7)
• “Bake Cookies Day” (December 18)
• Boxing Day (December 26)
• National Fruitcake Day (December 27)
• Nobel Peace Prize (given in December)
• New Year’s
• National Eye Care month (January)
• National Beans Day (January 6)
• Kid Inventors Day (January 17)
• Australia / Australia Day (January 26)
• Eat Brussel Sprouts Day (January 31)
• Groundhog Day
• Valentine’s Day
• U.S. Presidents’ Day

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.

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.