Publisher Description

Phonic Books Moon Dogs Set 1 comprises eight books designed for older children at the very early stages of reading. The books contain contemporary illustrations and a story line based on the adventures of a group of teenage friends in a band. Moon Dogs Set 1 introduces sounds gradually at CVC level with one line of text on each page, Set 2 introduces consonant blends and consonant digraphs. Moon Dogs Set 3 introduces two spellings for a vowel sound. The Moon Dogs Extras set runs parallel to Set 1 and provides crucial further practice for the sounds of the alphabet at CVC level text. Moon Dogs VCe Spellings focuses on silent or 'magic' e spellings.
Book 1: Is it Matt? (s, a, t, i, m)
Book 2: Tam Has a Nap (n, o, p)
Book 3: Sim and the Bat (b, c, g, h)
Book 4: Ned, the Cat (d, e, f, v)
Book 5: Kip's Bad Leg (k, l, r, u)
Book 6: Jed's Bag (j, w, z)
Book 7: The Big Hill  (x, y, ff, ll, ss, zz)
Book 8: Ned is Bad (All initial sounds CVC)
Accompanying photocopiable activities for word building, reading, spelling and comprehension can be found in Moon Dogs Set 1 Activities.

Author Biography

Phonic Books specializes in publishing decodable, systematic phonics books for beginner, emerging readers and reading intervention. Phonic Books supports structured literacy instruction. Phonic Books was founded by three special needs teachers passionate about teaching all children to read. Using their expertise, they set about developing phonics reading books for young children and older, struggling readers.

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