Phonic Books (Dandelions and Catch-Up readers) : Phonic Books for Older Readers

An exciting new series of 12 books for older readers with gaps in their phonic knowledge.
Interest age 8-14.
These books start at CVC level and follow the same progression as the popular Totem Series.
Alba, the heroine, has been shrunk to 10cm tall by a corrupt scientist determined to own the last apple pip in the world. Join her in her adventures as she crosses the city to get the last pip safely to her Dad.


ISBN: 9781907170874
Title: ALBA SERIES
Price: $125.00
Weight: 820g
Dimension: 210mm X 146mm

A spiral bound book of photocopiable worksheets to be used in conjunction with the Alba Series readers.

ISBN: 9781907170881
Title: ALBA SERIES WORKBOOK
Price: $85.00
Weight: 940g
Dimension: 295mm X 220mm

NEW!

Interest Age 8 - 14 years

These ten books bridge the gap between our structured reading series and mainstream reading. Each of the exciting 26-page stories in this quest series is carefully written to motivate older readers and build reading stamina. With a higher ratio of text to illustration, these stories allow the reader to make the important step towards understanding meaning purely from text.

Amber Guardians features Finn, a well-known character from our Magic Belt Series, as well as introducing new and exciting companions on his latest quest.

The Amber Guardians workbook can be purchased separately and contains photocopiable activities for each story. Includes creative activities, such as sentence matching and writing, spelling activities, games and revision exercises.

ISBN: 9781783692941
Title: AMBER GUARDIANS SERIES
Price: $140.00
Weight: 1120g
Dimension: 210mm X 150mm

A spiral-bound photocopiable workbook that prepares the older, 'catch-up' pupil for reading the Magic Belt Series. Aimed at children with weak sound/letter knowledge, it introduced the sounds and letters of the alphabet in a step-by-step progression. A veriety of activities offer the basic building blocks of learning to read.

ISBN: 9781907170867
Title: MAGIC BELT INTRODUCTORY WORKBOOK
Price: $45.00
Weight: 220g
Dimension: 300mm X 215mm

The Magic Belt Series includes 12 quest stories for the older 'catch-up' pupils who would benefit from starting a phonics programme from the beginning. Action-packed with fantastic illustrations and age-appropriate stories, the series starts at CVC/CVCC level text. It then builds up reading skills in step-by-step phonic progression, allowing practice and consolidation at each level. Designed to appeal to and engage older pupils, this is a great reading resource for older, beginner readers.

Book 1: CVC, CVCC
Book 2: CVCC
Book 3: CVCC
Book 4: CCVC, -ed
Book 5: CCVCC
Book 6: ch, tch
Book 7: sh
Book 8: th
Book 9: ck, qu
Book 10: ng
Book 11: wh, -ing
Book 12: le

A Magic Belt workbook is also available for purchase with photocopiable reading, spelling and comprehension activities for each of the stories.

ISBN: 9781907170843
Title: MAGIC BELT SERIES
Price: $125.00
Weight: 770g
Dimension: 210mm X 145mm

This spiral-bound, photocopiable workbook includes 12 chapters which correspond to the 12 books in the reading series. Following the same phonic progression, it offers numerous activities including wordbuilding, blending, segmenting, comprehension and vocabulary work based on the characters and adventures in the reading books.

ISBN: 9781907170850
Title: MAGIC BELT WORKBOOK
Price: $85.00
Weight: 680g
Dimension: 300mm X 220mm

This workbook complements Moon Dog Vowel Spelling Series and follows the same phonic progression. It offers photocopiable activities for word building, reading, spelling and comprehension work based on the characters and events in the stories.

Moon Dogs Vowel Spelling Series is a contemporary series of 14 books for older readers, continuing the adventures of the charaters in the Moon Dogs band. Each story introduces two spellings of vowel sound. The progression echoes that of the Dandelion Readers and can therefore also be used alongside level 2 books.

Book 1: ai, ay
Book 2: ee, ea
Book 3: oa, ow
Book 4: ur, ir
Book 5: e, ea
Book 6: ow, ou
Book 7: oo, ue
Book 8: igh, i
Book 9: oo, oul
Book 10: oa, ow
Book 11: oy, oi
Book 12: ar, a
Book 13: air, are
Book 14: ear, eer

Interest age 8-14

Reading Age F/1

Follows Phase 5 of Letters and Sounds

ISBN: 9781783692859
Title: MOON DOG - VOWEL SPELLING SERIES WORKBOOK
Price: $80.00
Weight: 760g
Dimension: 295mm X 223mm

The Moon Dog series is a catch up phonic reading series for older, struggling readers who would benefit from starting at the very beginning. It is aimed at older pupils and adults who are struggling with reading in mainstream and special needs settings. Two sets of 8 blocks include short decidable texts which follow step-by-step phonic progression. Contemporary age appropriate illustrations combined with fun stories to engage the older reader while the phonic structure ensures reading success.

Set 1 introduces the sounds of the alphabet at the CVC level. One line of text allows the reader to develop successful decoding strategies within a controlled text. Letters introduced in previous books are included at every new stage for practice and consolidation. A game, included in each book, offers further fun revision.

Book 1: s a t i m
Book 2: n o p
Book 3: b c g h
Book 4: d e f v
Book 5: k l r u
Book 6: j w z
Book 7: x y ff ll ss zz
Book 8: All initial sounds CVC

The Moon Dog workbook can be purchased separately and is photocopiable. It contains word building, reading, spelling, comprehension and more activities.


ISBN: 9781907170959
Title: MOON DOGS SERIES - SET 1
Price: $52.00
Weight: 370g
Dimension: 210mm X 150mm
Series: PHONIC BOOK

The Moon Dog series is a catch up phonic reading series for older, struggling readers who would benefit from starting at the very beginning. It is aimed at older pupils and adults who are struggling with reading in mainstream and special needs settings. Two sets of 8 blocks include short decidable texts which follow step-by-step phonic progression. Contemporary age appropriate illustrations combined with fun stories to engage the older reader while the phonic structure ensures reading success.

Set 2 introduces adjacent consonants and consonant digraphs:

Book 1: CVC
Book 2: VCC, CVCC
Book 3: CCVC
Book 4: CCVCC
Book 5: ch
Book 6: sh
Book 7: th ng
Book 8: ck qu

The Moon Dog workbook can be purchase separately and it contains photocopiable activities including word building, reading, spelling, comprehension and more.

ISBN: 9781907170966
Title: MOON DOGS SERIES - SET 2
Price: $52.00
Weight: 370g
Dimension: 210mm X 150mm
Series: PHONIC BOOKS