Decodable Passages & Comprehension Questions – CVCE, Blends & Vowel Teams

This set of 59 decodable passages gives beginning readers meaningful practice with early phonics skills and high-frequency sight words. Each passage focuses on a specific CVCE word family, blend, vowel team, or word family, with clear, consistent text that supports decoding and fluency. Each passage tells a simple story and includes four comprehension questions.

These passages are available in a money-saving bundle! Check it out here!

These passages are a perfect supplement to your reading curriculum and can be used whole group, in small groups, as independent work, or for reading intervention.

This resource includes 59 passages with a short decodable story and four questions.

• Questions 1 and 2 are comprehension questions that can be answered directly from the text.
• Question 3 requires students to make an inference.
• Question 4 asks students to connect the passage to their own lives.

Included Passages:

• ace, age, ake, ale, ame, ane, ape
• ice, ike, ile, ime, ine, ire, ite, ive
• oke, ole, ome, one, ope, ose, ote, ove
• ink, ank, onk, unk
• and, ing, ong
• Long u CVCe words
• L, s, and r blends (e.g. sl, bl, pl, sn, sp, br, fr, and more)
• Vowel teams au/aw, ow/ou, ay/ey, ew/eu
• R-controlled vowels ar/er/ir/or/ur