Two books for every stage provide phonics practice while offering different stories and encouraging independent reading from the start of their journey. Each stage introduces new letters and sounds while supporting any previously taught phonic letters or sounds and high-frequency words or sight words.

For example:
Book 1: Viv Wails (/ae/: 'ai', 'ay', 'a')
Book 2: Sweet Dream (/ee/: 'ee', 'e', 'ea')
Book 3: Toad Moans and Groans (/oa/: 'oa', 'o', 'ow')
Book 4: Meg Gets Dirty (/er/: 'ur', 'er', 'ir')

This beginner reader series features:

- An introduction in every book to two or three alternative spellings for each of the vowel sounds.
- Reading material aimed at children aged 5-7.
- Vowel spellings which introduce a vowel team. An example of this is vowel spellings 'ea'/'e'/'ai' for the sound 'e'.

This pack of 12 decodable books containing 12 pages features:

- 'How to Use This Book' guidance page with 'This book introduces' text box, including information about the new sound being introduced, sounds learned from previous books, high-frequency words and important notes on the sound.
- 'Before reading this book, the reader needs to know', 'This book introduces', 'High-frequency words', 'Vocabulary' and 'Talk about the story' information.
- Reading and spelling practice.
- Story pages (numbers 1-6).
- Photocopyable game page to reinforce the sounds and letters learned throughout the book.

What is phonics?

Phonics is a way of teaching children to read by understanding the sounds that individual letters make and blending them to make a word. Children can learn to read using this skill to decode new words. Phonic Books specializes in decodable, systematic books supporting this structured literacy instruction.