Decodable Safari Texts | Nonfiction Decodable Passages for Second Grade

This set of nonfiction decodable passages will help your students practice phonics skills in-context and improve their nonfiction reading comprehension. Your second graders will love learning about unique 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: Digraphs and blends with short vowels Double final consonants Glued sounds Silent e words R-controlled vowels Vowel teams Closed s