Dandelion Readers VCe Spellings

Learn how to read with Dandelion Readers decodable books for beginner readers.

Dandelion Readers VCe Spellings are first reader books by Phonic Books which introduce children to a few letters and sounds at a time. The pack of 6 books is perfect for older children who are in their early stages of reading, focusing on silent or ‘magic’ -e spellings through a series of stories. 

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:
Book 1: Late (a-e)
Book 2: Pete (e-e)
Book 3: A Fine Life (i-e)

This beginner reader series features: 

- An introduction to VCe spellings (Vowel, Consonant, silent -e at the end of a syllable or word).
- Reading material aimed at children aged 5-7.
- Vowel spellings which introduces spellings a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e and one for all spellings. 

This pack of 6 decodable books containing 12 pages features:

- ‘How to Use This Book’ guidance page with ‘This book introduces’ text box, including information about the new sound being introduced, sounds learned from previous books, high-frequency words and important notes on the sound.
- ‘Before reading this book, the reader needs to know’, ‘This book introduces’, ‘High-frequency words’, ‘Vocabulary’ and ‘Talk about the story’ information.
- Reading and spelling practice.
- Story pages (numbers 1-6). 
- Photocopyable game page to reinforce the sounds and letters learned throughout the book.

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 specializes in decodable, systematic books supporting this structured literacy instruction.

Phonic Books specializes in publishing decodable, systematic phonics books for beginner, emerging readers and reading intervention. Phonic Books supports structured literacy instruction. Phonic Books was founded by three special needs teachers passionate about teaching all children to read. Using their expertise, they set about developing phonics reading books for young children and older, struggling readers.