Adjacent consonants and consonant digraphs

Learn how to read with Dandelion World Extras decodable books and activities for beginner readers.

Dandelion World Extras Stages 8-15 Activities are first reader books by Phonic Books which introduce children to a few letters and sounds at a time. This activity book accompanies Dandelion World Extras Stages 8-15 and is perfect for children in Reception to Year 2 who are learning to read, teaching different letter patterns through a series of activities.

Two books for every stage provide phonics practice while offering different stories and encouraging independent reading from the start of their journey. Each stage introduces new letters and sounds while supporting any previously taught phonic letters or sounds and high-frequency words or sight words.

For example:
Unit 1: Sam and Tim (s, a, t, i, m)
Unit 2: Sit on Top! (n, o, p)
Unit 3: In the Bag (b, c, g, h)
Unit 4: In the Van (d, e, f, v)

This beginner reader series features:

- Activities to practice previously taught spellings in Dandelion World Extras Stages 8-15.
- Reading material aimed at children aged 5-7.
- CVCC words (consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant). Four letters producing distinct sounds when blended that are simple to sound out. An example of this is gift, g-i-f-t.

This 142-page phonics activity book features:

- Introduction to the activity book
- A variety of activities to practice phonics materials taught in the accompanying book Dandelion World Extras Stages 8-15.

What is phonics?

Phonics is a way of teaching children to read by 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.