Decodable texts

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/textbooks/materials/decodtxt.htm

The following is a summary of the range and average of decodability in
designated reading selections in the five conforming first grade reading
programs. While “potential for accuracy” is not a requirement for state
adoption, the potential for accuracy is included as it provides useful
information that reflects the non decodable words that have been taught and
the expected ease with which a student might read a passage.  (report from
the Texas Education Agency, 2000)

http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/phonics/faq/decode.html

Decodable text is sentences and stories composed of words that use the
sound-spelling correspondences that children have already learned and a
limited number of sight words. As the children learn more sound-spelling
correspondences, the texts become more sophisticated in meaning, but
initially they are very limited. Decodable text provides children the
opportunity to practice their new knowledge of sound-letter relationships in
the context of connected reading.

by Dr. Patrick Groff
Professor of Education Emeritus
San Diego State University

http://www.nrrf.org/decodable_vs_predictable.htm

The idea of “decodable words” is one of the basic principles of direct,
intensive, systematic, early, and comprehensive (DISEC) instruction of a
prearranged hierarchy of discrete phonics information. Soon after the
alphabetic code (the concept that each speech sound in a language can be
represented by a letter) was conceived, a method of teaching this phonics
information to novice readers was devised.  Professor Groff discusses the
comparison between the meaning of “decodable” and “predictable” as means of
introducing children to reading instruction.