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Totem Series reviewed

Posted on 9th March 201116th September 2016 in Our News, Product Reviews and Awards, Reading Difficulties, Reading Resources and tagged books for reluctant boy readers, decodable reading books for older readers, hi low, hi/low reading materials, high interest low reading ability, high interest low reading level, multisyllabic words, Totem Series, Totem Series reviewLeave a Comment

The Totem Series has just been reviewed in SNIP, Special Needs Information Press. This is a really useful publication full of a wealth of information and resources for Special Needs teachers.

What would Harry Potter look like to a pupil who cannot read multi-syllabic words?

Posted on 31st January 201116th September 2016 in Learning to Read, Reading DifficultiesLeave a Comment

Following the discussion about the importance of teaching the phonic code and how to split multi-syllabic words, I thought it might be illuminating to show what a page from Harry Potter might look like to a pupil who has weak phonic knowledge and cannot split long words into syllables:

High/low reading books and high interest phonics – what’s the difference?

Posted on 29th October 201016th September 2016 in Decodable Books, Reading Difficulties and tagged books for reluctant boy readers, decodable books for older readers, decodable books for struggling readers, hi/low reading books, phonic books for older readers1 Comment

There are some great high/low (high level of content/ low reading age) books on the market these days, particularly for boys. Publishers have published some really good quality, motivating books. What is the difference between those books and decodable readers for older, struggling readers?

Tricky adjacent consonants

Posted on 4th October 201016th September 2016 in Reading Difficulties, Synthetic Phonics and tagged adjacent consonants, blending, blends, final blend, initial blendLeave a Comment

We have found that lots of children are OK blending 3 sound words but have difficulty blending 4 and 5 sounds words with adjacent consonants (CVCC, CCVC and CCVCC words). Dandelion Launchers series now has 12 new books which tackle this reading skill. With no more than 10 words of text on each page, and 4 […]

Totem Series out now!

Posted on 4th October 201016th September 2016 in Our News, Reading Difficulties, Reading Resources and tagged books for dyslexics, CVC, CVCC, decodable, decodable books, decodable reading books, dyslexic pupils, older readers, Phonics, reluctant readers, strugggling readers, Talisman Series, Totem, Totem Series2 Comments

At last the much awaited Totem Series is out! Check out this new set of decodable books for older struggling readers. The idea here is to fill in the gaps that older pupils may have in their phonic knowledge. It has great illustrations and stories and it starts at CVC and CVCC level. There is also a really […]

Coloured Overlays

Posted on 1st February 201016th September 2016 in Reading Difficulties3 Comments

Changing the background colour on which people are reading has been shown to effect reading ability. For this reason all of the books published by phonic books are printed onto a cream background to reduce the contrast between black and white which can cause problems for some children. Google have actually changed the colour of their search boxes based on […]

Top Tip: Phonic Phones

Posted on 29th January 201016th September 2016 in Language and Communication Difficulties and tagged decoding, Phonic Phones, Phonics, Sounding out2 Comments

Phonic phones are incredibly simple devices. They are a simple plastic tube that go from the mouth to the ear and allow the reader to hear the sounds they are making.