Beginner Readers
Accessible and engaging books for children ages 2-8
Our Books Engage Beginning and Struggling Readers
Written especially for beginner, catch-up and readers who require extra support, our hi-interest, decodable book series ensure reading success and build confidence from the outset. All of our books, games, and activities are designed to engage your child or students whether they are just starting out, or are struggling to read.
Specially Developed Decodable Books and Resources
Decodable books are specially written texts that students use as they learn to read. By introducing words with only a few new letters and sounds at each stage, students are able to read the books independently and successfully as they progress. Each series is structured along a highly-sequential phonic progression that allows the reader to read a growing number of words until they become fluent, independent readers.
What Others are Saying About Phonic Books…
Teachers and parents alike are finding success for their struggling readers through Phonic Books series and activities.
So glad I found Phonic Books!
Remembering the day that my son, Nate, sneaked Magic Belt books still brings tears to my eyes. Before Magic Belt, the only books that I could find for my son to read narrated the mundane adventures of a rat or a cat with a hat … He became a book lover because of Magic Belt, so those books are very special to me and worth every penny!
Melanie McAfee
McAfee Reading and Spelling Company
Completely engaging!
While the instructional quality of the books is most important to me, the fact that my students love the books is a huge bonus. On many occasions, I have had students eagerly ask me as soon as they see me, “Have you brought the next book?” For some, a Talisman book is the first book the child has ever read with great excitement.
Jennie Smith-Brock
Special Education Teacher
Popular Phonic Books and Resources
For every age of aspiring reader, we have just the right books, games and workbooks.
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Should we be rethinking reading instruction? NYC’s new Schools Chancellor thinks so!
Many educators in the USA are rethinking reading instruction. In 2019 less than 30% of fourth graders were found to be proficient readers. What has gone wrong for so many children? The core of the problem is that teachers’ approach […]
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Part Two: Reading Meetings with Mark and Molly
Have you had a chance to listen to some of these interesting conversations yet? See Part One for a summary of broad themes that arose in the course of the meetings. Below are a few more takeaways from some […]
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Part One: Reading Meetings with Mark and Molly
As summer vacation draws to a close and thoughts turn to the coming school year, you may be interested in a unique (and free) opportunity for professional development. Reading researcher Mark Seidenberg, author of Language at the Speed of […]
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The Homeschool Resource Room reviews Phonic Books
More and more parents are choosing to homeschool their children rather than sending them to a traditional public or private school. There are many reasons why a family may choose to homeschool, some of which include dissatisfaction with the educational […]
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Aligning decodable books with your phonics program
Regardless of which program or approach to teaching phonics we use, teaching phonics systematically means we follow a particular scope and sequence with its own logic for introducing sound-symbol correspondences and spelling patterns. Many teachers are coming to recognize that […]
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Does interplay between children and their environment shape the development of reading skills?
An interview with a developmental cognitive neuroscientist Ola Ozernov-Palchik is a postdoctoral associate at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a lecturer and program director at the Harvard Graduate School of […]
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What’s Meaning Got To Do With It?
Do you have students who persistently misread small, high-frequency words such as: “he,” “I,” “of,” “gave,” “a,” “the,” “she,” “her,” “on” or “was”? This is quite common even if older students have had remediation for decoding difficulties and have improved […]
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Can Lucy Calkins’ changing views shift the way millions of children are taught to read?
The news has been spreading that Lucy Calkins, head of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP), has been learning about the science of reading and making changes to her guidance and widely used curricula. Throughout her career, she […]
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Books to engage and motivate older, struggling readers
Older, struggling readers often have gaps in the their phonics knowledge. They find alternative spellings particularly confusing. Many suffer from low self-esteem so offering them decodable materials that are age-appropriate is vital. Vital because if the reading materials can engage […]
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Phonic Books is Going Red for the Month of October!
What is all this ‘going red’ about? Go Red is a community of passionate individuals and organizations that campaign to promote literacy and a greater understanding of dyslexia. Being able to read and write is something most of us take […]
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Little things can make a big difference
The education researcher Dylan Wiliam has said that “changing what teachers do is more important than changing what teachers know.” But isn’t knowledge power? And what we do is obviously linked to what we know. So, how can that be? […]
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Parents steers school toward Science of Reading
It is so sad to hear when a young child says he wants to kill himself because he can’t read as described in the interview linked at the end of this piece. It is uplifting to hear how a parent turned […]
