Rescue 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 […]
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5 year old in Spain learns to read English with Phonic Books
Watch this sweet video clip of a 5 year old in Spain learning to read English with Dandelion Launchers.
Read MoreLearning to read with Sounds-Write and Dandelion Readers
See 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. […]
Read MoreWatch child learning to read with interactive iBook
Here 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 […]
Read MoreWhy beginner readers need decodable books – from Spelfabet
Another great blog post from Spelfabet explaining why is it crucial for beginner readers to read decodable books: Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Thanks to Susan Godsland of www.dyslexics.org.uk for flagging it up
Read MoreHow to end the reading book struggle and engage your pupils in reading again
How to end the reading book struggle and engage your pupils in reading again.
Read MoreResearch suggests that the initial texts used by early readers have a strong influence on how they ‘decode’ text.
It 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 […]
Read MoreSee how decodable books can develop vocabulary and comprehension
We 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 […]
Read MoreMagic Belt now on Accerlerated Reader!
The Magic Belt series is now on Accelerated Reader! This is fantastic as it will enable older, beginner readers to participate in reading and comprehension quizzes which has proved such a success in secondary schools. The texts in the series […]
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