Non-Fiction Decodable Books
A new Scholastic Phonics School & Home series of carefully
structured non-fiction decodable books for early years classrooms.
Engage your students with exciting illustrations and photographs!
Scholastic Phonics School & Home Non-fiction includes all your favorites features from the original Scholastic Phonics School and Home series! These new non-fiction books have inclusive photographs and artwork that will inspire students as they build their phonetic knowledge.
These structured books help students apply their decoding skills and focus on different phonemes to foster fluency, as each book systematically introduces letters and sounds. The books follow a natural progression of phonetic sounds and builds on previous learning, while engaging young readers with exciting pictures and artwork of people, animals, and things from around the world.
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Notes and guidance
Each book contains notes and guidance to support learning.
“Talk About It” activity
A “Talk About It” activity is included at the end of every book to support students’ comprehension and build vocabulary skills.
Phonics School & Home Non-fiction Sets
There are 13 sets of books, each set structured to help students’ practice, apply, and building decoding skills.
Set 1
Focus graphemes: s a t p i n m d
Set 2
Focus graphemes: g o c k ck e u r h b f l
Set 3
Focus graphemes: ff ll ss j v w x y z zz
Set 4
Focus graphemes: qu ch sh th ng nk
Set 5
Focus graphemes: ai ee igh oa oo oo
Set 6
Focus graphemes: ar or ur ow oi ear air er
Set 7
Covers adjacent consonants with short vowels.
Set 8
Covers adjacent consonants with Phase 3 long vowels.
Set 9
Covers: ay (play), ou (cloud), oy (boy), ea (each), ir (bird), ie (pie), ue (blue), u (unicorn).
Set 10
Covers: o (go), i (tiger), a (paper), e (he), a-e (snake), i-e (time), o-e (home), u-e (cute), e-e (these), ew (new), ie (shield), aw (claw).
Set 11
Covers: y (funny), ea (head), wh (wheel), oe (toe), ou (shoulder), y (fly), ow (snow), g (giant), ph (phone), le (apple), al (metal), c (ice), ve (give), o-e (some), o (mother), ou (young), se (cheese), se (mouse), ce (fence), ey (donkey), ui (fruit), ou (soup).
Set 12
Covers: or (word), u (full), oul (could), are (share), ear (bear), ere (there), au (author), aur (dinosaur), oor (floor), al (walk), tch (match), ture (adventure), al (half), a (father), a (water), ear (learn), wr (wrist), st (whistle), sc (science), ch (school), ch (chef), ze (freeze), schwa at the end of words (Laura).
Set 13
Covers: eigh (eight), aigh (straight), ey (grey), ea (break), gn (gnaw), kn (knee), mb (thumb), ere (here), eer (deer), su (treasure), si (vision), dge (bridge), ge (large), y (crystal), ti (potion), ssi (mission), si (mansion), ci (delicious), augh (daughter), our (pour), oar (oar), ore (more).
Book Samples
Get a sneak peak of books in the series.
Sit, Tap, Tip!
This book helps children practice these letters and letter sounds: s a t p i n
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The Job of a Vet
This book helps children practice these letters and letter sounds: qu ch th ng nk
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Pet Rabbits
This book helps children practice words with more than one consonant next to each other, plus long vowel sounds: green crowd agree sleep
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