Max And Sal: Decodable Readers for Learning Letters and Reading Words. For Early, Emergent Readers and Students with Dyslexia. (Reader 4 Introduces Le (Paperback or Softback)

Learn the letters b, h, l, x. This reader has sound-out words, sentences, a short story, and traceable letters.

Get Ready! Readers teach the letters in seven groups. This is group 4. Students must know the letters from Get Ready! Readers 1 to 3.

DOG ON A LOG Books are for anyone learning to read, including people with dyslexia. You can start anywhere in the series based on your student’s reading skills.

About DOG ON A LOG Books:

• The series progresses in Steps. Each Step of books introduces a few more phonics rules.
• The stories get longer and more complex with each new step of phonics.
• Kids love that they get to read REAL chapter books that need a bookmark.
• Students should be taught the phonics and High Frequency Words in each book prior to reading. This allows them to use their skills to sound-out and READ the words. They will have no need to guess any words.
• Written with a Systematic Phonics, Orton-Gillingham, Science of Reading-based phonics sequence.
• Print books optimized for dyslexia with cream-colored paper, large Verdana font, and extra spacing.
• Kindle collection volumes have colored images.

This is Get Ready! Reader 4. Books can be purchased individually or as collection volumes.

• (Blue) DOG ON A LOG Get Ready! Readers help students learn the letters and blending words.
• (Teal) DOG ON A LOG Get Set! Books offer more practice of three-letter words with a middle short vowel.
• (Purple) DOG ON A LOG Let’s GO! Readers tell the same stories, but have fewer words than the chapter books. They help prepare kids who are not ready for the longer chapter books.
• (Red) DOG ON A LOG chapter books gradually introduce more phonics rules and allow students to work towards mastery of the phonics skills.

For additional information on using Get Ready! Readers, see DOG ON A LOG's Learn to Read (Letters Make Words)

Information on printable activities is provided in each book.

Use this word list to help you decide where in the series your child should start.

DOG ON A LOG "WHAT STEP SHOULD WE START WITH?" WORD LIST
Have your child read the following words. If they cannot 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.

If your child is not able to tell you the first and last sounds of words you SAY to them:
Check out the DOG ON A LOG Parent and Teacher Guide:
--Prepare For Reading (Activities for Pre-Readers)

Get Ready! Or Get Set! Books
jet, zap, pod, kit, rug, bin, hem

Step 1
chin, 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, tree, wheat, inhale, play, Joe

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

Step 11
far, north, spire, turn, inhabit, calculate, Wyoming

Check out our books for Parents and Teachers:

--Teaching a Struggling Reader: One Mom’s Experience with Dyslexia

--Prepare For Reading (Activities for Pre-Readers)

Teaching Letters & Sounding-Out Words
--Learn to Read (Letters Make Words)

Teaching Phonics and Reading
--Teach Reading with Decodable Books