Learn how to read with Dandelion World Extras decodable books for beginner readers.

Dandelion World Extras Stages 8-15 are first reader books by Phonic Books which introduce children to a few letters and sounds at a time. This pack of 16 books is aimed at children in Reception to Year 2 who are learning to read, teaching different letter patterns through a series of non-fiction stories.

Two books for every stage provide phonics practice while offering different stories and encouraging independent reading from the start of their journey. Each stage introduces new letters and sounds while supporting any previously taught phonic letters or sounds and high-frequency words or sight words.

For example:
Unit 1: Sam and Tim (s, a, t, i, m)
Unit 2: Sit on Top! (n, o, p)
Unit 3: In the Bag (b, c, g, h)
Unit 4: In the Van (d, e, f, v)

This beginner reader series features:

- A pack of 16 decodable books each containing a story with different phonic letters and sounds.
- Reading material aimed at children aged 4-6.
- CVCC words (consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant). Four letters producing distinct sounds when blended that are simple to sound out. An example of this is gift, g-i-f-t.

Each 12-page book contains:

- 'How to Use This Book' guidance page with 'This book introduces' text box, including information about the new sounds introduced, sounds learned from previous books, high-frequency words and important notes on the sound.
- Story pages (numbers 1-6) with one line of text per page.
- Game Intructions.
- Photocopyable game page.


What is phonics?

Phonics is a way of teaching children to read by understanding the sounds that individual letters make and blending them to make a word. Children can learn to read using this skill to decode new words. Phonic Books specialises in decodable, systematic books supporting this structured literacy instruction.