Five Chapter Books 6: DOG ON A LOG Chapter Book Collection Series, #6

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.

You can learn how to use this series in the e-book HOW TO USE DECODABLE BOOKS TO TEACH READING.

This collection is the five books in Step 6 of the DOG ON A LOG Chapter Book Series. The books are:

--The Colt Chapter Book
--The Gold Bolt Chapter Book
--Hide In The Blinds Chapter Book
--The Stone Child Chapter Book 
--Tolt The Kind Cat Chapter Book 

Sight Words:
a, are, as, be, come, comes, could, do, does, for, from, go, goes, has, have, he, her, here, his, I, into, is, me, Ms., my, no, of, OK, onto, or, pull, pulls, push, put, puts, said, say, says, see, sees, she, should, so, some, 
talk, talks, the, their, there, they, to, walk, walks, want, wants, was, we, what, where, would, you 

Each book has about 1,390 to 2,000 total words

These are Step 6 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: 9781386637141

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

DOG ON A LOG

Parent and Teacher Guides

Book 1. Teaching a Struggling Reader:

One Mom’s Experience with Dyslexia

Book 2. How to Use Decodable Books

to Teach Reading

Available for FREE from many online booksellers or

read at www.dogonalogbooks.com/free

Download DOG ON A LOG printable gameboards, games, flashcards, and other activities at:

www.dogonalogbooks.com/printables.

Table of Contents

DOG ON A LOG Parent and Teacher Guides

Table of Contents

THE COLT

Sight Words

THE GOLD BOLT

Sight Words

HIDE IN THE BLINDS

Sight Words

THE STONE CHILD

Sight Words

TOLT THE KIND CAT

Sight Words

Excerpt from Step 7: QUEST FOR A GRUMP GRUNT

Keywords

DOG ON A LOG Phonics Progression

DOG ON A LOG Sight Word Progression

How You Can Help

THE COLT

The Call

Liz and Jan are pals. Liz’s home is on a ranch.

Liz calls Jan, We have a colt. He was here when I got up from bed. Would you like to come see him?

Yes, Jan says. What is his name?

Liz calls Jan

He does not have a name yet. Come see him. We can come up with a list of names when you are here. My mom says you can bring Tup to run with Ms. Jolt. She says they are mild dogs with the colts. They will have fun.

Jan, her mom, and Tup get in the red truck. They can not take their van. The lane to the ranch has lots of holes and sand. The van would get stuck.

The Ranch

When they get to the ranch, Liz and Ms. Jolt run from their home. Liz’s mom walks from their home up to the truck.

You are here! Liz says with a smile.

Jan and Tup jump from the truck. Tup runs to Ms. Jolt. The dogs sniff and wag their back ends. They run up the drive. Ruff, ruff, ruff, they say as they run.

The dogs sniff and wag their back ends. They run up the drive.

Jan was glad to get your call, Jan’s mom says to Liz’s mom. It is kind of you to let us see the colt. We thank you. We have not met a colt this old. Jan told me he just got here when the sun came up. Can he walk yet?

Yes, he can walk. He walks to his mom to get milk. Come see him, Liz says.

They go to the colt shed. The dogs trot with them.

His Name

The colt shed has small colts and their moms. This is their stall, Liz says. The dogs sit and gaze into the stall.

Jan sees the colt. He is black with a white zig zag bolt on his chest.

Jan sees the colt.

His mom has the same zig zag bolt on her hind leg.

You could call him Bolt, Jan says.

"Dad says we should call him Volt. He says a volt tells you the size of a zig zag bolt. I do not get that.