Phonic Books Pet Sitters Activities : Adjacent consonants and consonant digraphs, and alternative spellings for vowel sounds

Learn how to read with these decodable Phonic Books for older readers. Phonic Books Pet Sitters are older reader books that introduce children to a few letters and sounds at a time. The pack of 12 decodable books is aimed at older children in the very early stages of reading and in need of support, teaching different letter patterns through a series of activities. Dedicated books in each stage break down phonics practice while offering different stories, encouraging independent reading from the start for ages 9-12 or KS2/Years 5 and 6. It starts at at CVC level and introduces adjacent consonants and consonant digraphs, with gentle progression throughout the set. For example:Books 1 & 2: CVC, CVCC, CCVCBooks 3: CCVCCBook 4: sh, ch, tch, thBook 5: ck, ng, qu, wh, le, -edThis 200-page phonics activity book features: - Activities to practice previously taught spellings in Pet Sitters. - Each unit introduces new letters and sounds through sounding them out (sat, s - a - t). - Reading material aimed at older children who need support with their reading. - CVC, VCC, CVCC, CCVC, and CCVCC words, introducing adjacent consonants, consonant diagraphs and suffixes -ed and -ing. What is phonics?Phonics is a way of teaching children to read through 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 specialises in decodable, systematic books supporting this structured literacy instruction.