Winter Holiday Decodables | Seasonal Texts For First Grade

This set of winter decodable texts will help your students practice their decoding skills! These decodable passages and lesson plans cover holidays that fall during the winter, like Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, 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: 15 single-page decodable texts on winter and 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: Consonant blends with short vowels (7 passages) Glued sounds (6 passages) Double final consonants (2 passages) Passage topics: Winter temperatures How families celebrate holidays differently, with different