Decodable Books for New Readers and People with Dyslexia
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Parent and Teacher Guides
Book 1
Teaching a Struggling Reader: One Mom’s Experience with Dyslexia
- Introduces parents and teachers to essential information on dyslexia, struggling readers, and illiteracy.
Book 2
How to Use DOG ON A LOG Books to Teach Reading
- The author discusses their family’s daily routine as she teaches her daughter to read using the decodable DOG ON A LOG Books series.
Pre-Readers and (Blue) Get Ready! Books
Book 1
Phonological/Phonemic Awareness:
- Words
- Rhyming
- Syllables, identification, blending, segmenting
- Identifying individual letter sounds
Books 2 and 3 & (Blue) Get Ready! Books 1 to 7
Phonemic Awareness/Phonics
- Consonants, primary sounds
- Short vowels
- Blending
- Introduction to sight words
Step 1 Books
- Consonants, primary sounds
- Short vowels
- Digraphs: ch, sh, th, wh, ck
- 2 and 3 sound words
- Possessive ‘s
Step 4 Books
- Consonant Blends to make 4 sound words
- 3 and 4 sound words ending in –lk, -sk
Step 5 Books
- Digraph blends –nch to make 3 and 4 sound words
- Silent e, including “-ke”
Step 7 Books
- 5 sounds in a closed syllable word plus suffix -s (crunch, slumps)
- 3 letter blends and up to 6 sounds in a closed syllable word (script, spring)
Step 8 Books
- Two syllable words with 2 closed syllables, not blends (sunset, chicken, unlock)
Step 9 Books
- Two syllable words with all previously introduced sounds including blends, exception words, and silent “e” (blacksmith, kindness, inside)
- Vowel digraphs: ai, ay, ea, ee, ie, oa, oe (rain, play, beach, tree, pie, goat, toe)
Step 10 Books
- Open syllables (be, so, fly)
- Two-syllables words containing:
- Open syllables (beside, rerun)
- Vowel teams ai, ea, ee, ie, oa, oe (raindrop)
- Previously learned sight words (somewhere)
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Decodable Books for New Readers and People with Dyslexia
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Decodable Books for New Readers and People with Dyslexia
