We have just received this independent review from Teach Primary Magazine. The review is available online. See link below. Phonic Books – That Dog! for catch-up readers across the school. At a glance: • Age appropriate, synthetic phonic catch-up reading books with decodable text for pupils who can read CVC words • Controlled language […]
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Decodable books are controlled texts that beginner readers can read independently once they have been taught the spellings in the text. Children learning to read with phonics benefit from reading decodable texts because these texts allow them to practice what they have been taught and experience success. They also help children develop an effective strategy […]
Read MoreWhat are decodable books? For people who can read – all books are decodable. For children who are learning to read – decodable books are controlled texts that they can decode at each level as they acquire literacy (by sounding out the letters on the page and blending them into words). Decodable books are reading exercises […]
Read MoreThank you Melinda Crean, of Top Notch Teaching website, for reviewing the ‘Rescue’ series and Dandelion Readers Level 4, ‘Toad and Newt’. To see the review click here and scroll down: http://topnotchteaching.com/reviews/reading-spelling-ideas/
Read MoreRescue Series – from Phonic Books Stories by Clair Baker Illustrations by Drew Wilson This is another well designed and structure reading series produce by Phonic Books. The engaging storylines and accompanying illustrations will appeal to the readers and will hopefully encourage all who read them to continue to develop their reading skills.
Read MoreWatch this sweet video clip of a 5 year old in Spain learning to read English with Dandelion Launchers.
Read MoreSee lovely video clip of 4-year-old learning to read with his Mum who is teaching him to read with the Sounds-Write Reading and Spelling programme. He is reading the extension activity at the end of a Dandelion Reader decodable book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB5ZRtfNKGo&feature=youtu.beBest
Read MoreHere is a video clip of M. (4 yrs) learning to read with Dandelion Launchers iBook. Note how she learns to sound out the words from the iBook and then begins to sound out words independently. This resource can help parents, TAs and SEN pupils with correct pronunciation. It also demonstrates grapheme/phoneme correspondences clearly. It […]
Read MoreIt is my experience that if young readers are given texts to read that are decodable – they will develop decoding skills. They develop a habit of sounding out and blending graphemes to read and gain meaning. But if they are offered texts they cannot decode (and must resort to guessing in order to read) […]
Read MoreWe are currently in the last stages of creating our Dandelion Readers, Level 4 series. It introduces more vowel and consonant spellings and common suffixes. This page is taken from Book 10 ‘A Grand Adventure’. The phonic focus of the book is the suffix -ture (as read in the words ‘nature’, ‘adventure’). But this page […]
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