Five Chapter Books 5

Finally, a delightful book series that helps kids learn phonics rules step by step. Fun and engaging 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.
This collection is the five books in Step 5 of the DOG ON A LOG Chapter book series.

The books are:
Bake A Cake

The Crane At The Cave

Ride A Bike

Crane Or Crane?

The Swing Gate
Individual books can also be purchased separately.
Sight Words:

a, are, as, be, come, comes, could, do, does, egg, eggs, for, from, go, goes, has, have, he, her, here, his, I, into, is, me, my, of, OK, or, pull, pulls, put, puts, said, say, says, see, sees, she, should, talk, the, their, there, they, to, walk, walks, want, wants, was, we, what, where, would, you, your
Each book has about 1,000 to 1,190 total words
These are Step 5 Chapter books.
The DOG ON A LOG Books series are for phonics readers and folks with a dyslexic learning style. They are Decodable books which means a learner who has been taught the phonics rules and the limited sight words in that book can sound them out and read them. The words used reflect the inclusion of 1 to 3 new phonics rules in each step. There are five books at each step.



The chapter books are written in a chapter format with one picture in most chapters. They are longer, have more detail, and sometimes offer more complexity than the Let's GO! Books. They're great for practicing known and newly introduced phonics rules. They're also just fun reading.



DOG ON A LOG Let's GO! Books are shorter versions of DOG ON A LOG Chapter books. Let's GO! books tell the same stories with about 8 pictures and only a few sentences per page. They're perfect as an introduction to the new phonics rules or simply for fun reading for younger kids.
Please note: The language in decodable books may sound awkward compared to normal speech and writing. The more limited the phonics and vocabulary, the more awkward it may seem. For example, in Step 1 books there is no suffix -s and especially no -ed. This makes writing verbs particularly awkward and unusual. The upside is this encourages students to read through each word and decode every word on every page.


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


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


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)







Paperbacks have black and white images. The bo