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Older Beginning Readers - Phonics Based Fantasy/Adventure Stories

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NEW! Hidden in Paris is a 10-book set of decodable titles for older readers who are in the early stages of learning to read. Each book covers alternative vowel, consonant spellings, and common Latin suffixes.
Product cover art for Phonic Books: Moon Dogs VCe Spellings
NEW! Moon Dogs VCe focuses on silent -e spellings and are designed for older students at the early stages of reading.
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These decodable books cover phonics skills such as CVC and CVCC words, adjacent consonants, consonant digraphs and suffixes.
Product cover art for Phonic Books: Moon Dogs Set 1 EXTRAS
NEW These 24 new books follow the same scope and gradual sequence as Moon Dogs Set 1, providing additional practice for the sounds of the alphabet in CVC-level text.
Product cover art for Phonic Books: Moon Dogs Series Set 1
Set 1 introduces sounds gradually and reinforces reading CVC words. These books can be used to either teach or reinforce new and already learned decoding skills.
Product cover art for Phonic Books: Moon Dogs Series Set 2
Designed for older children at the early stages of reading, these books can be used to either teach or reinforce new and already learned decoding skills.
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Designed to appeal to older students at a very early stage of reading.
Product cover art for Phonic Books: Magic Belt Series
The Magic Belt Series is 12 fantasy/adventure books for older students who would benefit from a beginning phonics program. This series starts at CVC/CVCC level text, then builds up reading skills in a step-by-step phonic progression, allowing practice and consolidation at each level.
Product cover art for Phonic Books: Alba Series
This series covers the essential phonic foundations a catch-up pupil will need, starting at CVC/CVCC level. It will appeal to both boys and girls. The Alba Series follows the same phonic progression as the Totem Series.
Product cover art for Phonic Books: Totem Series
The Totem Series starts at CVC/CVCC level text, then builds up reading skills in a step-by-step phonic progression, allowing practice and consolidation at each level. To promote interest, the series features one continuous story when read in sequence, with the conclusion in the final book.
Product cover art for Phonic Books: Talisman 1 Series
The Talisman 1 Series includes 10 fantasy/adventure stories for students ages 8 through 14 that introduce more alternative spellings for the vowel sounds: ae, oe, er, ow, oi, oo, ie, or, air, and ar.
Product cover art for Phonic Books: Rescue Series
Rescue series was created for older students, and these books can be used to either teach or reinforce new and already learned decoding skills. Book 1 starts with a focus on the spellings ai, ay, a, a-e, ea and ey.
Product cover art for Island Adventure Series
Starting with the sound ‘ae’, each of the 10 books introduces a phoneme and its alternative spellings.
Product cover art for Dragon Eggs Series
Each of the 10 books in the set focuses on a specific vowel spelling.
Product cover art for Phonic Books: Talisman 2 Series
The Talisman 2 Series continues the fantasy/adventure stories of the Talisman 1 Series, and overlaps the alternative vowel and consonant spellings and Latin suffixes of Titan's Gauntlets, including additional variant spellings.
Product cover art for Phonic Books: Titan's Gauntlets
Titans Gauntlets is a set of ten imaginative stories with fantastic illustrations. It introduces further alternative vowel, consonant spellings and common Latin suffixes.
Product cover art for Phonic Books: Amber Guardians
These ten exciting stories feature Finn, a well-known character from the Magic Belt series. In this series. A chance discovery of an ancient necklace in a dusty bazaar leads Finn and his friends on an incredible quest. Carefully written with a higher text to illustration ratio, these longer stories (26 pages) build reading stamina and motivate older readers.
Product cover art for Phonic Books Complete Series
This series is 10 or 12 exciting books per set. Each set is one continuous story. Students will practice reading new sound-spellings with every book!
Product cover art for Phonic Books Treasure Chest
The Phonic Books Treasure Chest contains eight of the popular Phonic Books series along with their eight workbooks.
Product cover art for Talisman Cards
Talisman Cards are a beautifully illustrated collection of ten decks. Students can use them to play a fast-paced phonics skills game.