Decodable Safari Texts | Nonfiction Decodable Passages for First Grade

This set of nonfiction decodable passages will help your students practice their phonics and decoding skills. Your first graders will love learning about animals from these decodable passages! These decodable passages will help your students: Practice specific phonics skills in context  Develop strong decoding skills Learn to recognize high frequency words in context Recognize and utilize text features Improve their nonfiction reading comprehension Experience reading SUCCESS! Here’s what’s included: 22 decodable passages about animals (single page format) Professional photographs of each animal (not clipart)  1 lesson plan per decodable text 1 writing prompt per text 1 set of comprehension questions per text 1 graphic organizer per text Color and B&W versions of each component  Skills covered: VC and CVC words Digraphs with short vowels Consonant blends with short vowels Silent e words R-controlled vowels Vowel teams Animals included: Giraffe, meerkat, jackal, rhinoceros