The Swing Gate

DOG ON A LOG Books help kids, including kids with dyslexia, learn to read by adding a few more phonics rules and sight words at each step of books. The word list below will help you decide where in the series your child should start. For added practice, free printable game boards, flashcards, handwriting sheets, and more can be downloaded from dogonalogbooks.com.
The (purple) Let's GO! books have less text for less confident readers. The (red) chapter books are longer for more reading practice. Kids enjoy these stories that get more complex and longer as more phonics are added throughout the series.
Books can be purchased individually or as collection volumes. This is an individual Step 5 Let's GO! Book.
Additional information on using this series is available in the e-book HOW TO USE DECODABLE BOOKS TO TEACH READING. It can be read for free at dogonalogbooks.com/free.
DOG ON A LOG Books follow a structured literacy/Orton Gillingham phonics progression.
DOG ON A LOG "What Step Should We Start With" Word List

Have your child read the following words. If they can't read every word in a Step, that is probably where in the series they should start.
Step 1

fin, 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, free, wheat, inhale, play, Joe
Step 10

be, remake, spry, repeat, silo, sometime, pinwheel
Many early reader books or leveled books cannot be sounded out so kids often struggle and grow frustrated when they cannot sound out the words. However, kids who have been taught the phonics in DOG ON A LOG Books can be proud when they are able to sound out and read almost every word.
Paper books have black and white images. The books are optimized for learners with dyslexia. They have cream colored paper and large Verdana font. Research has shown Verdana is one of the most dyslexia-friendly fonts.
More DOG ON A LOG Books:
DOG ON A LOG Pup Books

Before the Squiggle Code (Pre-Reading Skills)

The Squiggle Code (Learning Letters and Words)

Kids' Squiggles (First Stories)





DOG ON A LOG Parent and Teacher Guides


Teaching a Struggling Reader: One Mom's Experience with Dyslexia

How to Use Decodable Books to Teach Reading





You can read the complete DOG ON A LOG Phonics Progression (Scope and Sequence) at www (dot) dogonalogbooks.com/about-dog-on-a-log-books/phonics-progression/

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