The Decodable Series Cheat Sheet
Two printable pages to keep by your desk. Page one helps you find the skill your child is on. It lists the 10 phonics skills in teaching order, each with words to try, a plain-language sign that your child is ready, and the series to start with. Page two is a grid showing which skills every series in the catalog covers.
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What's on it
Page one: which skill is my child on? Have your child read the example words in each row, starting at the top. The first row where they stumble is the skill to shop for. Each row also has a readiness cue and the series with the most sets built for that skill. Those series are counted automatically from the catalog data.
Page two: which series cover it? Each series in the catalog gets a row and the 10 skills run across the top. A checkmark means the series has at least one set that teaches that skill.
Every checkmark comes from the publishers' own materials, under the same sourcing rules as the rest of the catalog (how that works). The sheet is built from the catalog and shows the date its data was last updated.
When you've picked a series, the full catalog has each set's price, level, format, and buy links.