Five Chapter Books 5: DOG ON A LOG Chapter Book Collection Series, #5

By Pamela Brookes

Finally, a delightful book series that helps kids learn phonics rules step by step. Fun books designed for anyone learning to read with phonics, especially learners with dyslexia. Start anywhere in the series, according to your child's reading level. All DOG ON A LOG Books follow a Structured Literacy/Orton-Gillingham based phonics sequence. Gameboards, flashcards, and other activities can be downloaded from dogonalogbooks (dot) com.

This collection is the five books in Step 5 of the DOG ON A LOG Chapter Book Series. The books are:

--Bake A Cake Chapter Book
--The Crane At The Cave Chapter Book
--Ride A Bike Chapter Book
--Crane Or Crane Chapter Book
--The Swing Gate Chapter Book

Sight Words:
a, are, as, be, come, comes, could, do, does, egg, eggs, 
for, from, go, goes, has, have, he, her, here, his, I, into, 
is, me, my, of, OK, or, pull, pulls, put, puts, said, say, 
says, see, sees, she, should, talk, the, their, there, 
they, to, walk, walks, want, wants, was, we, what, 
where, would, you, your

Each book has about 1,000 to 1,190 total words

These are Step 5 Chapter books. There are also companion "Let's GO! Books" that have less text. Let's GO! Books can help build confidence and work as a bridge to reading the longer chapter books.

Decodable books let a learner who has been taught the phonics rules and sight words in that book sound them out and read them. These are systematic books because each Step of books build on the skills practiced in the prior Steps.

Most kids who read DOG ON A LOG Books are proud that they can finally read a book without so much frustration.

DOG ON A LOG Phonics Progression

Step 1
•Consonants, primary sounds
•Short vowels
•Digraphs: ch, sh, th, wh, ck
•2 and 3 sound words
•Possessive 's

Step 2
•Bonus letters (f, l, s, z after short vowel)
•"all"
•-s suffix

Step 3
•Letter Buddies: ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk

Step 4
•Consonant Blends to make 4 sound words
•3 and 4 sound words ending in -lk, -sk

Step 5
•Digraph blends -nch to make 3 and 4 sound words
•Silent e, including "-ke"

Step 6
•Exception words containing: ild, old, olt, ind, ost

Step 7
•5 sounds in a closed syllable word plus suffix -s (crunch, slumps)
•3 letter blends and up to 6 sounds in a closed syllable word (script, spring)

Step 8
•Two syllable words with 2 closed syllables, not blends (sunset, chicken, unlock)

Step 9
•Two syllable words with all previously introduced sounds including blends, exception words, and silent "e" (blacksmith, kindness, inside)
•Vowel digraphs: ai, ay, ea, ee, ie, oa, oe (rain, play, beach, tree, pie, goat, toe)
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• Language: English
• Publisher: DOG ON A LOG Books
• Release date: Oct 16, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386162865

Pamela Brookes

My child needed an ongoing supply of progressive phonics books that use an Orton-Gllingham approach. This proved to be a nearly impossible, expensive task.   I decided to put my talents to use and simply write books for her. She is learning to read using an Orton-Gillingham approach. These books follow a gentle progression of phonics rules. DOG ON A LOG Books have five books at each step to allow for practice, repetition, and enjoyment.   I want to share our books with new readers and their families. I also want to make them affordable. Since every family will have different needs and different budgets, I am making the books available in both digital and paper editions. They can be purchased as individual books or collections of five same-step books in one volume. Paperbacks have black and white images. They are optimized for dyslexic learners with cream colored paper and Verdana font. The digital books all have color pictures.    As our reading journey progresses I will continue to write books for my daughter and to share them with other families.   I was not going to include artwork because drawing is not my talent. However, my daughter was adamant she wanted her books to include pictures. I am grateful to the artists who have made their images available for public domain uses. These sweet images give my daughter a break when the reading is challenging.   I hope other new readers will be entertained by these stories as they practice, and master, each step of their reading journey. 

Book preview

BAKE A CAKE

Help Mom

Jan, do you want to help me bake a cake? Mom asks.

Yes! Can we make a cake with chips in it? Jan asks.

If you want, Mom says. We have to get all the stuff. We will make the cake for Kate Tate. She fell and broke her hip. It will be a gift.

The stuff for the cake is on a shelf. Mom gets it and sets it for Jan.

The stuff for the cake is on a shelf.

We can not get cake mix from the shop. It makes her sick. We must make the cake with nuts. We will mash nuts for this cake, Mom says.

Nut cake is the best, Jan says. Can we put small mints on top?

Mints on a nut cake? It could be bad if we mix nuts and mints. Do we want to risk that? Mom asks.

We should not risk it. If it is bad, Kate Tate would be sad, Jan says.

We have 24 eggs. I will take them to Kate Tate as a gift. We must have eggs for the cake. Can you go to the hen pen and get 4 eggs? Mom asks.

Yes, Jan says. She gets a bag for the eggs. She runs to the hen pen.

The Hen Pen

Jan goes into the hen pen. A hen sits on a nest of eggs. Not all the hens have names. This hen does have a name. It is the hen Jan calls Pine Cone.

Pine Cone is Jan’s best hen pal.

Pine Cone is Jan’s best hen pal.

Pine Cone sees Jan. She jumps from the nest and runs to her kid.

Jan sits on the bench. She bends and pets the hen. You are such a fine hen. I like to pet you. You are like silk.

Pine Cone jumps into Jan’s lap. She pecks at the snap on Jan’s top.

Do not do that, Jan says. I wish I had a snack for you to munch. I did not think to bring you a snack.

Jan pets the hen. She pets her and pets her and pets her.

Eggs

Jan, where are the eggs? Mom calls from the top of the hill.

They are here. I am with Pine Cone. She wants me to pet her, Jan says.

You can pet her when the cake bakes. I must have eggs, Mom says.

I will be back, Jan says to Pine