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Phonic Books Decodable books for beginner and catch-up readers. Phonic reading books for beginner and 'catch-up' readers

📣 We are pleased to announce that our new website is now live, featuring more expert-made phonics resources, informative...
29/01/2025

📣 We are pleased to announce that our new website is now live, featuring more expert-made phonics resources, informative articles, and comprehensive teaching materials than ever before!

What can you expect?

📝 A brand-new Phonics Hub, with over 100 articles written by phonics educators and experts, teacher testimonials and tips, and tried-and-tested advice to implement in your lessons.
📚 Over 200 free downloadable resources ready-made for classroom use, including diagnostic reading assessments.
✨ An updated, user-friendly, colourful layout designed with teachers in mind, making it easier than ever to access all the information you want, as and when you need it!

Take a look:
🌍: https://ow.ly/uCsX50UPiYH
🇺🇸: https://ow.ly/alPH50UPiYE

What are the top reasons why a student might not know the meaning of a word they come across in a text?✍️The word may be...
28/01/2025

What are the top reasons why a student might not know the meaning of a word they come across in a text?

✍️The word may be unusual.
✍️The students may have limited language as English language learners.
✍️The students may have a language disability.
✍️The students may have had limited opportunities to read books at home.

In this ‘how to’ blog, we explore techniques for enhancing your readers’ vocabulary using a decodable book: https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk/2024/01/29/how-to-teach-vocabulary-when-reading-a-decodable-book/

What methods do you use to expand your students’ vocabulary?

Discover our curriculum mapping resources 📚Are you looking for decodable books to supplement your literacy curriculum bu...
24/01/2025

Discover our curriculum mapping resources 📚

Are you looking for decodable books to supplement your literacy curriculum but you're not sure when to introduce them? We have mapped how our series align with many popular curricula so you know when to introduce each book for practice and consolidation of the phonics skills taught within, including:

➡️ CKLA, Amplify Education
➡️ Benchmark Advance, Benchmark Education Company
➡️ EL Education Language Arts
➡️ Into Reading, HMH
➡️ myView Literacy, SAVVAS
➡️ SIPPS
➡️ Sounds-Write
➡️ The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum
➡️ UFLI Foundations
➡️ West Virginia Phonics
➡️ Wilson Fundations
➡️ Wit & Wisdom, Great Minds with Wilson Fundations K-3
➡️ Wonders, McGraw Hilll
➡️ Words Their Way, SAVVAS

Take a look at our range of free, curriculum mapping downloads (🇺🇸): https://ow.ly/BqVR50UHyUk

💭 Did you know that Phonic Books aligns with the Orton-Gillingham Approach? The Orton-Gillingham Approach is an explicit...
23/01/2025

💭 Did you know that Phonic Books aligns with the Orton-Gillingham Approach?

The Orton-Gillingham Approach is an explicit, multisensory, structured, sequential, diagnostic and prescriptive way to teach literacy when reading, writing and spelling does not come easily to individuals, such as those with dyslexia. It is most properly understood and practiced as an approach, not a method, program, or system.

Swipe through the gallery to learn more, or watch our video on why Orton-Gillingham practitioners such as Barbara Steinberg, PDX Reading Specialists, love Phonic Books: https://ow.ly/ImM950UHyLf

21/01/2025

📣 Now out worldwide: Get Out of the Game, our latest series for catch-up readers!

We’re pleased to kick-off the New Year by sharing that our latest 12 book adventure, Get Out of the Game, is now available in all regions (including North America, Australia, and the UK).

🎮 After being pulled into his game, Gus discovers there is no way out unless he continues to play, taking him on a actioned-packed journey filled with CVC and CVCC words through to alternative consonants, consonant digraphs, and the -ed and -ing suffixes.

Perfect for engaging older readers and gamers everywhere, grab your class set and accompanying, photocopiable activity book to supplement any systematic phonics programme:

🌎: https://ow.ly/CZXh50UHyFu
🇺🇸: https://ow.ly/EJfM50UHyFt

💬 “I love that they’re systematic and that the progression is so logical, it supports the children and the teacher. I te...
17/01/2025

💬 “I love that they’re systematic and that the progression is so logical, it supports the children and the teacher. I teach a lot of students and I want to do the best I can for all of them, so Phonic Books decodable books and activity books are invaluable for me.”

We were delighted to chat with Anna Chen, an experienced Primary School teacher and Dyslexia Specialist based in North London, about her experience using Phonic Books.

To discover how she uses the resources in her lessons, how they support her dyslexic students, and more, read our latest blog:
🌎: https://ow.ly/ksIU50UHylX
🇺🇸: https://ow.ly/oTfs50UHylZ

How many different spellings of the /er/ sound can you name? ✍️English spelling is complex, and one of the hardest thing...
14/01/2025

How many different spellings of the /er/ sound can you name? ✍️

English spelling is complex, and one of the hardest things children need to learn is that sounds in words (phonemes) can be spelled in different ways. From ‘surf’ and ‘bird’ to ‘earth’ and ‘worm’, download our free /er/ classroom display poster to use in phonics activities or support home learning.

🌍: https://ow.ly/8I4y50UGgMq
🇺🇸: https://ow.ly/Ao5C50UGgMn

Need a new term refresher on the basics of teaching phonics? We’ve got you covered! ✅When we read a new word, we need to...
10/01/2025

Need a new term refresher on the basics of teaching phonics? We’ve got you covered! ✅

When we read a new word, we need to be able to do three things:
1️⃣ Recognise the letters on the page and convert them to sounds.
2️⃣ Push those sounds together and ‘blend’ them into a word.
3️⃣ Match the word we hear to one stored in our lexicon of words we've heard to access meaning.

Beginner readers find most words unfamiliar so must repeat this process often; that is why reading can feel so laborious for novices. So, how do we help children overcome these complexities? We must teach them phonics in a systematic and structured way, as we would teach anything complex.

To find out more, read our ‘what is…’ blog, where we cover a step-by-step guide on where to start: https://ow.ly/yrSA50UyGql

💬 We’re giving you another opportunity to ask literacy consultant and SEN specialist, Ann Sullivan, all of your burning ...
09/01/2025

💬 We’re giving you another opportunity to ask literacy consultant and SEN specialist, Ann Sullivan, all of your burning questions about teaching phonics.

Whether you’re seeking clarity on terminology, looking for classroom tips, or are in need of activity inspiration for the new year, now is your chance to ask an expert!

Comment your question below or respond via our Instagram Story - we can’t wait to chat with you soon…

✍️ One spelling, different sounds worksheet: 'o'. From ‘o’ as in ‘hot’ and ‘o’ as in ‘both’, to 'o' as in 'move' and 'o'...
06/01/2025

✍️ One spelling, different sounds worksheet: 'o'.

From ‘o’ as in ‘hot’ and ‘o’ as in ‘both’, to 'o' as in 'move' and 'o' as in 'glove', this free downloadable poster covers the many ways letters in words (graphemes) can be sounded out.

Challenge: can you craft a sentence that includes as many of the 'o' words from the poster as possible?

Download for free as a display for the classroom or use it in a phonics activity to support writing or home learning:
🇺🇸: https://ow.ly/nGcR50UAr38
🌎: https://ow.ly/e7uA50UAr37

🎉 Happy New Year and good luck to all teachers and students returning to school in the coming week!We have a lot of exci...
01/01/2025

🎉 Happy New Year and good luck to all teachers and students returning to school in the coming week!

We have a lot of exciting things in store for 2025, including the launch of our refreshed website, more free teaching resources than ever before, and a range of brand new books coming soon, including the Dandelion Launchers Extras Stages 16-20 and our Where Words Come From morphology series.

Let us know what resources you’d like to see more of this year, and stay tuned for more updates soon…

Wishing everyone a Happy Holidays from Phonic Books and DK Learning! 🎅🏻🎁🎄
25/12/2024

Wishing everyone a Happy Holidays from Phonic Books and DK Learning! 🎅🏻🎁🎄

On behalf of the entire Phonic Books and DK Learning team, we’d like to wish all school staff and students finishing for...
20/12/2024

On behalf of the entire Phonic Books and DK Learning team, we’d like to wish all school staff and students finishing for the winter break an enjoyable and restful holiday. ☃️

The Phonic Books and DK offices will be back on January 2nd ready for another packed year of phonics resources, brand new series, and learning tips and tricks. ✨

📣 Introducing our brand new series, Get Out of the Game 🎮This set of 12 action-packed, Hi-Lo decodable books follows the...
19/12/2024

📣 Introducing our brand new series, Get Out of the Game 🎮

This set of 12 action-packed, Hi-Lo decodable books follows the adventures of Gus, who after being pulled into his game, discovers there is no way out unless he continues to play. Join him on a quest packed with CVC and CVCC words through to alternative consonants, consonant digraphs, and the -ed and -ing suffixes!

Specifically designed to engage older readers in need of further support, each book provides engaging practice and transference of phonics skills and can supplement any systematic phonics programme.

Both the series and accompanying photocopiable Activity Book are available from January in North America and out now in the UK, Australia, and all other regions: https://ow.ly/ZnZ350UujUu

Round off the year with this festive read, spell, find activity! ❄️Reinforce your students’ phonics learning while getti...
17/12/2024

Round off the year with this festive read, spell, find activity! ❄️

Reinforce your students’ phonics learning while getting into the holiday spirit by reading these seasonal words aloud, practising the spellings, and matching them to the illustrations.

Download for free:
🇺🇲: https://ow.ly/26Q750UsMzQ
🌍: https://ow.ly/PMMs50UsMzP

We’re loving the initial reviews of our updated website, launching soon! 💬 “This is awesome [...] there's a ton more inf...
16/12/2024

We’re loving the initial reviews of our updated website, launching soon!

💬 “This is awesome [...] there's a ton more information and you've really upped the resources for teachers.”
💬 “Very colorful and fun!”
💬 “It's very exciting. I think teachers are going to love it.”

Check in this January to discover what makes our new look so “brilliant”...

Dive into some festive non-fiction with Dandelion World! ❄️From sled dogs to melting frost, these beginner books are pac...
13/12/2024

Dive into some festive non-fiction with Dandelion World! ❄️

From sled dogs to melting frost, these beginner books are packed with a range of topics targeting different literacy levels, designed to introduce new sounds, high frequency words, and phonic techniques to encourage independent reading.

Each book also contains a ‘knowledge builder’ page to deepen comprehension of the content and broaden your learners’ understanding of the world around them!

Discover a range of winter reads:
🇺🇲: https://ow.ly/2upM50UnBjG
🌍: https://ow.ly/rOx850UnBjH

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Phonic Books Ltd is a small company specialising in publishing decodable books for beginner and catch-up readers.

The company was founded in 2006 by Wendy Tweedie, Tami Reis-Frankfort and Clair Baker, three special needs teachers passionate about teaching all children to read. Using their expertise they set about developing phonic reading books for young children and older, struggling readers.

Following demand from customers, the range has extended from the initial 10 titles to over 298 today and is continuing to grow. The range of books caters for pupils in Nursery and Foundation Stage to Age 14+ reluctant readers in secondary school.