Phonic Books has developed a collection of truly decodable books for older struggling readers to build their reading fluency and confidence. There are a wide range of genres and contemporary topics within the series to appeal to older readers.

Discover action-packed fantasy and adventure stories to captivate older readers. These highly structured books have age-appropriate illustrations and storylines that older pupils can enjoy while filling in the missing gaps in their phonics skills.

Special features are designed to engage but also to facilitate access to text including a dyslexia-friendly font and a cream–coloured background to reduce visual stress. These are ideal resources to deliver targeted reading interventions for struggling children, or those with specific learning difficulties including dyslexia.

The catch-up readers collection includes:

Moon Dogs Series - Covers the sounds of the alphabet at CVC level and double final consonants for older students at the early stages of reading.

That Dog!, Magic Belt, Mel on Mars and Get Out of the Game - Gripping quest series and contemporary, age-appropriate stories with engaging visuals. These series cover consonant blends and digraphs, wh, final le, suffixes -ed and -ing.

Alba, Totem and Pet Sitters - Compelling adventure stories that start at CVC/CVCC-level words and gradually progress to digraphs, and alternative spellings for vowel sounds de, ee, oe, er, ow, ie, oo.

Dragon Eggs, Talisman 1, Rescue and Island Adventure - These series introduce alternative spellings for the vowel sounds with engaging storylines and illustrations.

Titan's Gauntlets and Hidden in Paris - Engrossing fantasy and mystery stories that introduce further alternative vowel and consonant spellings and common Latin suffixes.

Amber Guardians and Dark Waters - The perfect bridge between decodable and mainstream books. With longer stories and a higher ratio of text to illustration than other Phonic Books series, these series are great for building fluency and stamina while covering suffixes, prefixes and root words.

Talisman Card Games, Boxes 1-10 and Boxes 11-20 - In each box you will find 10 sets of beautifully illustrated card games that offer practice and consolidation of phonic skills for catch-up readers.

Catch-up Readers Teacher Guide - An essential teaching resource that covers the foundations of phonics, engaging activity ideas, lesson Plans, progress tracking and assessment. Full of engaging and effective activities which are easy to implement and ensure pupils are concurrently learning how to read for meaning from the start.

Check out the full scope and sequence of decodable books for older readers from Phonic Books:

An overview of the series from LoveReading4Schools Expert Reviewer, Rosie Watch

Each series contains a selection of ten stories, each one focusing on different CVC words and containing a contents page, chapters, a vocabulary list of words used and at the bottom of each page, any new or multisyllable words are split up into manageable syllables for the reader.

There is also a page headed ‘reading practice’ to help reinforce the target phoneme. All these books are well written and illustrated, but also very clearly marked with the relevant CVC and CVCC levels and targeted phoneme making them accessible to teachers and assistants hunting for appropriate and suitable reading material.

Having so many stories in each series will appeal to children who love an adventure to continue, but it also provides consistency and breadth of reading within the same level of ability. A very reliable resource for the classroom.

You can find a selection of books from this series below, with extracts from the books to download and a further review.

For more information on the books in this Phonics series, teacher resources and advice on using the visit phonicbooks.co.uk/catchupreaders