Adjacent consonants and consonant digraphs

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Dandelion Launchers Units 8-10 Activities is an activity book that accompanies Dandelion Launchers Units 8-10 and is perfect for children in Reception to Year 2 who are learning to read.

This beginner reader book gradually introduces different vowel spellings through a series of activities. 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 8a: Lost
Unit 8b: Jump!
Unit 8c: Junk
Unit 8d: The Gift
Unit 9a: Bob is Glum
Unit 9b: Don't Spill!
Unit 9c: Floss
Unit 9d: Stop the Pram!
Unit 10a: Stunt Rat
Unit 10b: Punk Smells Crisps
Unit 10c: Frank Swims
Unit 10d: Mum Gets Strict

This beginner reader series features:

• Activities to practice previously taught spellings in Dandelion Launchers Units 8-10.
• Reading material aimed at children aged 5-7.
• Vowel spellings which introduce a vowel team. An example of this is spelling ‘ea’ for the sound ‘e’, like the word ‘head’.

This 226-page phonics activity book features:

• Introduction to the activity book.
• A variety of activities to practice phonics materials taught in the accompanying book Phonic Books Dandelion Launchers Units 8-10.

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.