5 books in 1! Each Book has 140-210 words.
DOG ON A LOG Books are for anyone learning to read with phonics, including people with dyslexia. You can start anywhere in the series based on your student's reading skills.
The word list below will help you determine if this book is right for your reader.
About DOG ON A LOG Books:
--The series progresses in Steps. Each Step of books introduces a few more phonics rules.
--The stories get longer and more complex with each new step of phonics.
--Kids love that they get to read REAL chapter books that need a bookmark.
--Students should be taught the phonics and High Frequency Words in each book prior to reading.
--Written with a Systematic Phonics, Orton-Gillingham, Science of Reading-based phonics sequence.
This is a collection of five Step 5 Let's GO! Readers. Books can be purchased individually or as collection volumes.
--(Blue) DOG ON A LOG Get Ready! Readers help students learn the letters and blending words.
--(Teal) DOG ON A LOG Get Set! Books offer more practice of three-letter words with a middle short vowel.
--(Purple) DOG ON A LOG Let's GO! Readers tell the same stories, but have fewer words than the chapter books. They help prepare kids who are not ready for the longer chapter books.
--(Red) DOG ON A LOG chapter books gradually introduce more phonics rules and allow students to work towards mastery of the phonics skills.
For additional information on using this series, see the e-Book: DOG ON A LOG's "Teach Reading With Decodable Books."
Use this word list to help you decide where in the series your child should start.
DOG ON A LOG "WHAT STEP SHOULD WE START WITH?" WORD LIST
Have your child read the following words. If they cannot read every word in a Step, that is probably the step they should start with. For some kids, you may want to start at an earlier Step so they can build confidence in their reading ability.
IF YOUR CHILD IS NOT READY FOR GET READY! READERS
Check out the DOG ON A LOG Parent and Teacher Guide:
--Prepare For Reading (Activities for Pre-Readers)
Get Ready! Or Get Set! Books
jet, zap, pod, kit, rug, bin, hem
Step 1
chin, mash, sock, sub, cat, that, Dan's
Step 2
less, bats, tell, mall, chips, whiff, falls
Step 3
bangs, dank, honk, pings, chunk, sink, gong, rungs
Step 4
silk, fluff, smash, krill, drop, slim, whisk
Step 5
hunch, crate, rake, tote, inch, mote, lime
Step 6
child, molts, fold, hind, jolt, post, colds
Step 7
strive, scrape, splint, twists, crunch, prints, blend
Step 8
finish, denim, within, bathtub, sunset, medic, habit
Step 9
hundred, goldfinch, tree, wheat, inhale, play, Joe
Step 10
be, remake, spry, repeat, silo, sometime, pinwheel
Step 11
far, north, spire, turn, inhabit, calculate, Wyoming
Check out our books for Parents and Teachers:
--Teaching a Struggling Reader: One Mom's Experience with Dyslexia
--Prepare For Reading (Activities for Pre-Readers)
Teaching Letters & Sounding-Out Words
The Manual for Using Get Ready! Readers
--Learn to Read (Letters Make Words)
Teaching Phonics and Reading
--Teach Reading with Decodable Books
About the Author :
My child needed an ongoing supply of systematic, decodable phonics books that can be used with an Orton Gillingham or Science of Reading approach. Finding such books that provided enough reading practice for each Step of phonics proved to be a nearly impossible task so I decided to write them myself. I knew other families were as desperate as I had been for this type of series so I decided to publish them.My daughter's tutors helped me learn about evidence-based reading instruction and have taught me so much about effective methods of reading instruction.DOG ON A LOG Books can be used for any new reader. My message to parents of struggling readers: There was a time when I did not think my daughter with dyslexia would learn to read. Now she reads better than most American adults. It took years, but with good instruction, a lot of hard word, and my DOG ON A LOG Decodable books, she learned to read.
Review :
Lynne E. Jaffee, PHD, co-author: Woodcock-Johnson IV: Reports, Recommendations, and Strategies (2016), and Comprehensive Evaluations: Case Reports for Psychologists, Diagnosticians, and Special Educators (2011): In the 45 years that I have been teaching students with dyslexia, I'm always looking for reading material. Pamela Brookes has created DOG ON A LOG Chapter Books that follow an incremental, phonics-based pattern and work well with Orton-Gillingham based programs. Ms. Brookes' books will be a great asset to educational therapists, parents, and special education teachers in their work with children and adults with dyslexia.
