Four Chapter Books 9

The DOG ON A LOG Book series helps kids, including kids with dyslexia, learn to read. They are sound out books that start with just a few phonics rules.  Each following Step of books adds a few more phonics rules and sight words. This gradual progression helps kids learn to read without feeling so overwhelmed. The word list below will help you decide where in the series your child should start. For added practice, printable game boards, flashcards, handwriting sheets, and more can be downloaded from the dogonalogbooks website.

The (purple) Let's GO! books have less text for new or 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 a collection volume of four Step 9 Chapter Books. This is the first Step with four books instead of five. The advancing phonics allows for more complex, longer individual books. This is the longest volume in the series.

Additional information on using this series is available in the e-book HOW TO USE DECODABLE BOOKS TO TEACH READING. It can also be read for at the dogonalogbooks website.

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 the step they should start with. For some kids, you may want to start at an earlier Step so they can build confidence in their reading ability.

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, wheat, inhale, play, Joe

Step 10
be, remake, spry, repeat, silo, sometime, pinwheel

Many early reader books or leveled books are written so they cannot be sounded out. Kids often struggle and grow frustrated when they can't 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.

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) on the dogonalogbooks website

You can print a copy of the Quick Assessment Tool ("What Step Should We Start With?" Word List) from the dogonalogbooks website

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