PLD’s Year 1 Decodable Reading Books

PLD’s Decodable Reading Books are designed for children being taught to read using Structured Synthetic Phonics (SSP). These books present phonics and high-frequency words in a sequential order, enabling early readers to apply the phonics they are learning in the classroom to their reading practise.

Authored by speech pathologists, PLD Decodable Reading Books are aligned with the Science of Reading and help students to build the right reading strategies. They necessitate the utilisation of decoding skills rather than guessing what the words say based on pictures or guessing from other cues.

PLD’s Year 1 Decodable Reading Books comprises Sets 7 – 10. Set 7 completes the initial code, with single sounds, blends and initial vowel and consonant digraphs. Sets 8, 9 & 10 then move into the extended code and include vowel and consonant digraphs.

Each fiction book showcases beautiful photography from an Australia location, along with facts and information about that area.

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Set 7 (Available Now)

30 Books
(20 fiction, 10 non-fiction)

ar or er ay ai oy oi al ng – speech marks and different punctuation

Books 1 – 9:
• Word count: up to 100 words
• 2-3 lines of text
• Heart Words from previous sets (no new Heart Words)
• Large font (PLD font size D)

Books 10 – 20
• Word count: up to 150 words
• 3 lines of text
• New Heart Words: so, go, no, one, two, what, said, more, have, they, pull, put.
• Suffix -ing
• Large font (PLD font size E)

Books 21 – 30
• Word count: up to 200 words
• 3-4 lines of text
• New Heart Words: so, go, no, one, two, what, said, more, have, they, pull, put.
• Large font (PLD font size E)

Set 8 (Available End Term 2 2025)

Available End Term 2 2025

20 Books
(13 fiction, 7 non-fiction)

ir ur ea aw oa ow/ow ou

speech marks, commas, exclamations marks, question marks and full stops
Suffixes: ed, er, ing

Books 1 – 8:

• Word count: up to 200 words
• 3-4 lines of text
• Heart Words from previous sets
• PLD font size E

Books 9 – 20:

• Word count: up to 300 words
• 3-5 lines of text
• New Heart Words: where, there, their, even, come, some, something, someone, sometimes, what, watch, water, people
• PLD font size F

Set 9 (Available End Term 3 2025)

20 Books
(13 fiction, 7 non-fiction)

e-e i-e e-e o-e u-e ll ss ff zz and triple initial consonant blends

speech marks, commas, exclamations marks, question marks and full stops
Suffixes: ed, er, ing

Books 1 – 8:
• Word count: up to 200 words
• 3-4 lines of text
• Heart Words from previous sets
• PLD font size E

Books 9 – 20:
• Word count: up to 300 words
• 3-5 lines of text
• New Heart Words: after, ask, last, fast, father, class, basketball, afternoon, does, gone, here, were 
• PLD font size F

Available End Term 3 2025

Set 10 (Available End Term 4 2025)

Available End Term 4 2025

20 Books
(13 fiction, 7 non-fiction)

ue ew y/y i ie kn ve and double initial and double final consonant blends

speech marks, commas, exclamations marks, question marks and full stops
Suffixes: ed, er, ing

Books 1 – 8:
• Word count: up to 300 words
• 3-5 lines of text
• Heart Words from previous sets
• PLD font size F

Books 9 – 20:
• Word count: up to 400 words
• 3-5 lines of text
• New Heart Words: won, above, other, love, another, mother, front, brother, only, over, open, word, work, would, animal, buy, Monday, Wednesday, month
• PLD font size F

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