Abacus ensures that facilitating the six phases (1. Phonemic Awareness, 2. Letter Sounds, 3. Phonics, 4. Blends, 5. Vowel Sounds, and 6. Spelling) of the Letters & Sounds program is as smooth as possible for the educators.
Below, you’ll find kits containing all the decodable readers you need for each phase.
The decodable readers are built on the principles of the science of reading and supports the worldwide movement of evidence-based reading instruction. They follow a strictly controlled vocabulary as the texts uses only decodable regular works according to the week-by-week progression of letters and sounds along with ‘tricky words. Tricky words are frequently used words that are not decodable at that phase.
The decodable readers are colour-coded and divided into six phases:
| Phase | Learning Area | Colour | Letter Sounds |
| 1 | Phonemic Awareness | Teal | Speaking, listening, and phonemic awareness |
| 2 | Letter Sounds | Orange | s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, and ss |
| 3 | Phonics | Blue | j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oi, oo, ow, ar, air, ear, er, ur, or, and ure |
| 4 | Blends | Red | st, nd, mp, net, nk, ft, sk, lt, lp, lf, lk, pt, xt, tr, dr, gr, cr, br, fr, bl, fl, gl, pl, cl, sl, sp, sw, tw, sm, pr, sc, sn, nch, scr, shr, spr, str, and thr |
| 5 | Vowel Sounds | Purple | ay, ou, ir, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au, ey, a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e, and zh |
| 6 | Spelling | Green | -e, -es, -ing, -ed, -ful, -er, -est, -en, -y, and -ly |
No need to worry about spending endless hours looking for the perfect readers for your studente because we've got you covered with kits to suit the needs of your children.
The single kits contain one copy of each title, with 12 titles in every set. The kits are divided as below:
The Essentials Kits are also available as classroom kits. The classroom kits include six copies of each set, totaling to 72 titles (12xPhases 1-6) or 60 titles (12x Phases 2-6). The classroom kits are divided as below:
The kits components details are tabulated below:
The Letters and Sounds Boxed Set, the Science Decodables Boxed Set, and the Beanies Hi-Lo Decodables Boxed Sets are available in a kit:
The Teacher Book Single Complete Kit provides comprehensive support for teachers who wish to use the Letter and Sounds range of decodable readers.
Each teacher book comes with 72 lesson plans which save teachers precious time and stress of designing lesson plans. These teacher books also include photocopiable activity pages, screening checks and assessment pages to evaluate children's learning. The kit includes:
The entire collection of decodable readers along with supplementary cards are covered in our Foundation, Year 1, and Year 2 Single, Classroom, and School Kit.