👀 Unboxing our brand new series, Pet Sitters!
We can’t wait for you to join our 12 pet sitters on their hair-raising adventures this Autumn in our latest decodable series for older readers.
Pet Sitters follows the same scope and sequence as our Alba and Totem books - starting at CVC level and progressing through adjacent consonants, consonant digraphs and alternative vowel spellings - making it perfect for Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention programmes!
Publishing this September in North America and next month for the rest of the world, this video offers a sneak peek of what to expect… 🐱🐶🐹
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What activities do you use to strengthen and reinforce your students’ phonics skills? ✍️
If you’re looking for complementary resources, there is an accompanying activity book available for all of our decodable series with photocopiable activities to correspond with the phonics taught in each individual book.
Covering writing, spelling, comprehension, word-building and more, these engaging activity books are the perfect resource to deepen your learners’ understanding of the text while boosting their confidence and ensuring they comprehend the story.
Make lesson planning easy and take a look at the full collection via our website!
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Looking for the perfect books to match that summer-term feeling? ☀️
From beach days and bugs, to games in the sun, there’s a Dandelion World non-fiction book for every summer topic! This truly decodable series will develop reading fluency and confidence amongst your beginner pupils, whilst supporting them to learn more about the world around them with engaging pictures and knowledge builder pages.
The books are also accompanied by with photocopiable reading and writing activities, perfect to help your reader practise vital comprehension, phonics, world-building and writing skills.
Bring some summer fun to the classroom with Dandelion World! Out now worldwide:
🌍: https://ow.ly/UAzH50REAyq
🇺🇸: https://ow.ly/Af0l50REAys
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📣 Out today: brand new Dandelion Readers set!
We’re thrilled to announce that the new Dandelion Readers Set 4, Units 1-10, is out worldwide today (outside of North America)!
Introducing the sounds of the alphabet at CVC word level and adjacent consonants, this truly decodable set of ten books is designed to develop reading fluency and confidence in learners at the very early stages of reading. Don't miss the photocopiable activity book, jam-packed with teaching and practice activities to accompany the stories!
Complete your classroom’s collection today: https://ow.ly/hMXm50RiREY
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The Dandelion Card Game is now available worldwide, including North America! 🌼
This Uno-style card game is an exciting and educational way of cementing your readers' phonics skills. Each box includes 6 packs of cards, starting at CVC word level, filled with vocab to practise CVCC words, consonant digraphs and alternative spellings for vowel sounds, as well as a word building set to encourage confidence in reading.
Take a look: https://ow.ly/pxoR50RbyTs
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The Dandelion Card Game is now available in all regions excluding North America! 🌼
An exciting and educational way of cementing your readers’ phonics skills, each box includes six sets of playing cards which offer practice and consolidation of phonics skills for beginner readers. Starting at CVC word level, the sets introduce consonant digraphs and alternative spellings for vowel sounds, as well as a word building set to encourage confidence in reading.
The sets correspond to the phonic focus in Dandelion Launchers Stages 1–10 and Dandelion World Stages 1–10.
These exciting, fast-paced games make an ideal teaching resource to engage beginner readers, and are a must-have for any classroom: https://ow.ly/RGjC50QJnYQ
[Out early April in North America]
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The Hidden in Paris Activities Book is now out in all regions excluding North America 🇫🇷
Accompanying our latest catch-up series for older readers, this photocopiable book is jam-packed with fun blending, segmenting, spelling, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary exercises designed to improve reading ability and enhance engagement with the Hidden in Paris readers!
Take a sneak peek at some of the activities available, and grab your copy today: https://ow.ly/tlp450QzezV
For North America followers, the Activities Book will be available from February 27th - watch this space!
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The Dandelion World workbooks are now available in North America 📣
Exciting news to kick off the year! The Dandelion World Workbooks are now available worldwide, including North America, Australia, and the UK. These fun, activity-packed workbooks accompany our latest nonfiction beginner series, and are filled with photocopiable comprehension, phonics, world-building and writing activities.
🇺🇲: https://ow.ly/ZCAr50QqZVr
🇬🇧🇦🇺: https://ow.ly/VAlr50QqZVs
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✨Introducing Hidden in Paris, our brand-new series of ten exciting decodable books!
Meet Ash, Frank and Ted - three intrepid explorers who adventure across Paris, solving mysteries and making friends along the way. 🇫🇷
Warm, engaging and beautifully illustrated, Hidden in Paris is packed with secrets, hidden clues, and plenty of new vocabulary for learners.
UK editions out now (link in bio), with North America editions to publish in December.
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Celebrate #NonfictionNovember with our new Dandelion World series - now available in the UK! 🌼
Following the same scope and sequence as our Dandelion Launchers, this fun, informative series covers a range of new sounds, high frequency words, and phonics techniques designed to encourage independent reading for beginners.
Take a look: https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk/product-category/beginner-readers/dandelion-world/
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At Phonic Books, we’re proud to publish stories that young readers can really engage with - but don’t just take our word for it! 📚 Watch the video to discover José’s thoughts on our Dragon Egg series…
Which books are your readers’ favourite?
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Are you looking for fun phonic games to help consolidate reading? Check out our Talisman Card Games, being played here by Savannah Campbell of Campbell Creates Readers.
All the sets in our Talisman card games have been designed with exactly the same simple rules. This ensures the rapid game play needed for both motivation and learning. Children are thinking about the words in their hand, and not trying to learn the game rules.
This also means sets can work together! If you’ve taught your pupils the 'ch' sound and want to practice it, you can do this using a game at a lower level which has words the children are already comfortable with. Just take out the cards of the same colour and swap in the 'ch' cards. The game will work in exactly the same way.
For more information about out Talisman Card games visit:
UK: https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk/product-category/games/talisman-card-games/
North America: https://www.phonicbooks.com/product-category/games/talisman-card-games/
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How to teach children to spell high-frequency words
READ, SOUND, WRITE, CHECK - an effective way to teach high-frequency words
As children learn to decode, they encounter high-frequency words that have awkward spellings, such as 'said'. These words are decodable but contain spellings that the children may not have learned yet.
A great way to teach high-frequency words is to show the sound/letter correspondences within the words. This is consistent with our phonics teaching. READ, SOUND, WRITE, CHECK links the letters to the sounds they represent.
It is also helpful to children as it shows them the sounds/letters they already know and highlights the complex spelling they need to pay attention to. For example, in the word 'said' children will have already learned the letters for the sounds /s/ and /d/. It is only the middle bit, the spelling, that they need to learn. This way we can build on what children already know.
Note that as the children spell the word they need to sound it out. This a multisensory way of linking sounds and spellings.
To see our free templates for Read, Sound, Write, Check, go to
UK https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk/advice-and-resources/free-teaching-resources/learning-to-spell-with-phonics/
USA
https://www.phonicbooks.com/resources/learning-to-spell-with-phonics/
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How to teach blending
Many children struggle with blending sounds into words. This is a foundational skill which is critical for learning to read. We have made short video demonstrating 3 different methods:
# 1 - Sound and blend - say the sounds and read the word. This is the most taxing on working memory
#2 - Stretch and blend - Stretch the sounds (using continuants - stretchy consonants) so that the child can hear the sounds blending. This is less taxing on working memory
#3 - Add and blend - break up the process into smaller steps, blending just two sounds and then adding the third.
Note: It is important that the gestures - in this example the moving car - is in sync with the sounds the student hears.
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The three sounds for the suffix -ed
Here is a fun game to help student understand the purpose of the suffix -ed and that it can sound three different ways but is almost always spelled -ed.
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Teach the sounds of the alphabet with correct pronunciation from the start!
It really helps beginner readers to learn how to pronounce the sounds of the alphabet correctly from the get go.
Why?
This is because they will need to blend the sounds together into words. Take the word 'hat' for example - if children are saying /huh/ /a/ /tuh/ they may have difficulty hearing and recognising the word 'hat' because of the added sounds in the word. They need to hear the sounds as purely as possible /h/ /a/ /t/ to hear and identify the word 'hat'. Imprecise pronunciation will impede their reading and spelling development.
Use our FREE alphabet cards to help your beginner readers practise correct pronunciation.
We have created 2 versions - one that helps the child remember the sound with a picture cue e.g. a picture of a snake for the sound /s/ and another set of cards without the picture so that children develop automatic recall of the sounds.
You can cut these sheets to make card games such as Snap and Pelmanism to practice sound/letter bonds.
To download these cards go to:
UK website
https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk/advice-and-resources/free-teaching-resources/phonics-games/snap-cards/
USA website
https://www.phonicbooks.com/resources/snap-cards/
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