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Summary

Finally, a delightful book series that helps kids learn phonics rules step by step. Fun books designed for anyone learning to read with phonics, especially learners with dyslexia. Start anywhere in the series, according to your child's reading level. All DOG ON A LOG Books follow a Structured Literacy/Orton-Gillingham based phonics sequence. Gameboards, flashcards, and other activities can be downloaded from dogonalogbooks (dot) com. 
 
This collection is the five books in Step 2 of the DOG ON A LOG Chapter Book Series. The books are: 
 
--Mud On The Path Chapter Book 
--The Red Hen Chapter Book 
--The Hat And Bug Shop Chapter Book 
--Babs The 'Bot Chapter Book 
--The Cub Chapter Book 
 
Sight Words: 
a, are, be, could, do, does, eggs, for, from, go, goes, has, have, he, her, here, his, I, into, is, like, likes, me, my, nest, of, OK, onto, or, puts, said, say, says, see, sees, she, should, the, they, to, want, wants, was, we, what, when, would, you, your  
 
Book lengths vary from 550 to 1,000 total words 
 
These are Step 2 chapter books. There are also companion "Let's GO! Books" that have less text. Let's GO! Books can help build confidence and work as a bridge to reading the longer chapter books. 
 
Decodable books let a learner who has been taught the phonics rules and sight words in that book sound them out and read them. These are systematic books because each Step of books build on the skills practiced in the prior Steps. 
 
Most kids who read DOG ON A LOG Books are proud that they can finally read a book without so much frustration. 
 
DOG ON A LOG Phonics Progression 
Step 1 
•Consonants, primary sounds 
•Short vowels 
•Digraphs: ch, sh, th, wh, ck 
•2 and 3 sound words 
•Possessive 's 
 
Step 2 
•Bonus letters (f, l, s, z after short vowel) 
•"all" 
•-s suffix 
 
Step 3 
•Letter Buddies: ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk 
 
Step 4 
•Consonant Blends to make 4 sound words 
•3 and 4 sound words ending in -lk, -sk 
 
Step 5 
•Digraph blends -nch to make 3 and 4 sound words 
•Silent e, including "-ke" 
 
Step 6 
•Exception words containing: ild, old, olt, ind, ost 
 
Step 7 
•5 sounds in a closed syllable word plus suffix -s (crunch, slumps) 
•3 letter blends and up to 6 sounds in a closed syllable word (script, spring) 
 
Step 8 
•Two syllable words with 2 closed syllables, not blends (sunset, chicken, unlock) 
 
Step 9 
•Two syllable words with all previously introduced sounds including blends, exception words, and silent "e" (blacksmith, kindness, inside) 
•Vowel digraphs: ai, ay, ea, ee, ie, oa, oe (rain, play, beach, tree, pie, goat, toe) 
 
WATCH FOR MORE STEPS AND BOOKS COMING SOON

• Fairy Tales
• Young Readers