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Decodable Reading Books
PLD’s award-winning Decodable Reading Books support Foundation to Year 2 students as they learn to read through Structured Synthetic Phonics (SSP). Developed by Speech Pathologists and aligned with the Science of Reading, PLD’s decodable readers provide structured phonics reading practise that aligns with classroom instruction.
From early decodable books through to Year 2 chapter books and catch-up readers, each set follows a carefully sequenced progression to help students apply their phonics knowledge, develop decoding skills and build reading confidence.
PLD’s Decodable Reading Books are developed in alignment with current research on font size and spacing, with the font, layout and text complexity progressing across each set. Books begin with very low word counts and single lines of text before progressing to longer texts with multiple lines.
PLD’s Decodable Reading Books (Sets 1–7) won the Decodable Books category in the 2025 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards. Take a behind-the-scenes look at PLD’s award-winning books.
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• 6 Sets – 140 Decodable Reading Books in total
• Sets 1 – 4 support Semester 1 Foundation reading development, focusing on CVC words and the gradual introduction of alphabet sounds.
• Sets 5 and 6 support Semester 2 Foundation reading development, introducing Digraphs, CCVC and CVCC words before progressing to longer CCCVC and CCVCC words.
• Aligned with PLD’s Foundation SSP Teaching Sequence, supporting students to practise the phonics skills taught in the classroom through decodable reading.
• 4 Sets – 90 Decodable Reading Books in total!
• Sets 7 and 8 support Semester 1 Year 1 learning and introduce extended code, including vowel digraphs.
• Sets 9 and 10 support Semester 2 Year 1 learning, continuing the extended code and introducing consonant digraphs.
• Aligned with PLD’s Year 1 SSP Teaching Sequence, supporting students to apply their developing phonics knowledge through increasingly complex decodable reading.
- 4 Sets -10 books per Set – 40 Decodable Chapter Books in total!
- Each book contains 3,500–4,000 words structured into manageable chapters, with approximately 600–800 words per chapter.
- Chapters provide a daily 10–20 minute reading block, designed to sustain a full week of reading practise.
- The Decodable Chapter Books support students as they transition from decodable reading to general reading material.
- Aligned with PLD’s Year 2 SSP Teaching Sequence, supporting students to apply increasingly complex phonics knowledge through extended reading.
The Early Reading Screen is a quick single-word reading assessment that supports educators to determine the appropriate level of decodable reading books for each student. The assessment takes approximately 2–5 minutes to administer, with words gradually increasing in length and phonics complexity in line with PLD’s Structured Synthetic Phonics (SSP) approach.
The Early Reading Screen is available in the downloadable Year 1 & 2 and Year 3–6 Screening & Tracking Manuals and can be used to determine the level of decodable readers students require for home and in-class reading.
The graphic below outlines suitable reading book options across PLD’s Decodable Reading Books, curated PLD sets and compatible decodable readers from other publishers.
At PLD, we also carefully curate a range of high-quality catch-up decodable reading books that align with our SSP Teaching Sequence and are appropriate for students entering either Year 1 & 2 with Foundation level reading or Year 2 & 3 with Year 1 level reading.
PLD carefully curates a range of high-quality catch-up Decodable Reading Books for Middle and Upper Primary students who are reading at Junior Primary levels. These decodable readers align with PLD’s SSP Teaching Sequence, supporting older students to consolidate phonics knowledge and develop their decoding skills using age-appropriate reading material.
Stage 1 Catch-Up Decodable Reading Books
Stage 1 & 2 Catch-Up Decodable Reading Books
Stage 1, 2 & 3 Catch-Up Decodable Reading Books
