Decodable Passage Thanksgiving

About this resource

Your K-2 readers are all over the map: one still needs a word bank, one can write a sentence, one is ready

to say why. A read-aloud for the whole group the week of the big family meal usually means the comprehension

page fits one of them. This set is one 139-word decodable Thanksgiving story, Turkey Day with Peg and Jet,

read together three times, and then three different question pages on the same story, so every child answers

the same read-aloud at a level they can actually do today.

Every word of the passage was checked in code against this store's own phonics word banks: short-vowel CVC

words, beginning and ending blends, digraphs, silent e, vowel teams, and -s/-ed/-ing endings. The 14 heart

words a child reads by sight (the, a, is, it, and so on) and the one pre-taught word, turkey, are listed on

a teacher page so you know exactly what to put on the board before the first read. Nothing in the story is

harder than those patterns.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (20 pages)

How To Use It

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: the student pages, the class record and the family note are type-in or print-and-write.

It is one Thanksgiving story at three question levels, with the teacher pages that go around it. It is not a

reading test and not a level score: A, B and C name the question page a child used today, and the same

child can take a different page next week. It is not a slide deck or a word-processor file. It carries no

benchmark, no age, and no claim about any child.

Who This Is For

K-2 special education and intervention teachers with a mixed-level reading group who want one shared

read-aloud and a comprehension page every child can do the week of the big family meal. Also general

education K-1 teachers running small groups, and anyone who wants a decodable passage whose vocabulary has

actually been checked against the patterns taught, not just labeled decodable.