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Decodable Books for New Readers and People with Dyslexia

Decodable Books for New Readers and People with Dyslexia

Scroll down to see each Step of DOG ON A LOG Books

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Most books are available as Paperbacks and Hardbacks. 

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Quick Assessment Tool

 

 

DOG ON A LOG paperback and hardcovers look like "real books."

 

 

 

Book List 

See the Phonics sequence and all book titles to date.        

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 2 Books 

  • Bonus letters (f, l, s, z after short vowel)
  • “all”
  • –s suffix

Step 3 Books 

  • ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk

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 6 Books 

  • ild, old, olt, ind, ost

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)

Illustration from Step 10 collection volume.

 

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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See Inside Each DOG ON A LOG Book

  • Quick links to all the series as listed on Amazon.
  • Each book description page on Amazon let’s you preview at least 40% of each book by clicking the cover image that says, “Look Inside.”
  • You can get to the book description pages from the individual book links found by clicking on any of the above “Take Me There” purple buttons. This is just the fastest way to get there.

 

Books by Step with ISBN

Decodable Books for New Readers and People with Dyslexia

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The printable Assessement Tool is formatted for easier use.

Poster explaining the Quick Assessment Tool and listing the lists of words for assessing each Step of phonics. The actual tool is formatted for use.

Decodable Books for New Readers and People with Dyslexia