Five Let's GO! Books 1

Book excerpt: Finally, a delightful book series that helps kids learn phonics rules step by step. Fun and engaging books designed for anyone learning to read with phonics, especially learners with dyslexia. Start anywhere in the series, according to your child's reading level. All DOG ON A LOG Books follow a Structured Literacy/Orton-Gillingham based phonics sequence. Gameboards, flashcards, and other activities can be downloaded from dogonalogbooks (dot) com. Let's GO! Books have less text and build confidence towards the same title Chapter Book. This collection is the five books in Step 1 of the DOG ON A LOG Let’s GO! book series. The books are: --The Dog On The Log --The Pig Hat --Chad The Cat --Zip The Bug --The Fish and The Pig Sight Words: a, are, be, do, does, for, go, goes, has, have, he, her, here, his, I, is, like, me, OK, says, see, sees, she, the, they, to, you Each book has 50 to 105 total words These are Step 1 Let's GO! Books. Decodable books let a learner who has been taught the phonics rules and sight words in that book sound them out and read them. These are systematic books because each Step of books build on the skills practiced in the prior Steps. Most kids who read DOG ON A LOG Books are proud that they can finally read a book without so much frustration. DOG ON A LOG Phonics Progression Step 1 •Consonants, primary sounds •Short vowels •Digraphs: ch, sh, th, wh, ck •2 and 3 sound words •Possessive 's Step 2 •Bonus letters (f, l, s, z after short vowel) •"all" •-s suffix Step 3 •Letter Buddies: ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk Step 4 •Consonant Blends to make 4 sound words •3 and 4 sound words ending in -lk, -sk Step 5 •Digraph blends -nch to make 3 and 4 sound words •Silent e, including "-ke" Step 6 •Exception words containing: ild, old, olt, ind, ost Step 7 •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 •Two syllable words with 2 closed syllables, not blends (sunset, chicken, unlock) Step 9 •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) WATCH FOR MORE STEPS AND BOOKS COMING SOON