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Dandelion Launchers Units 4-7 Activities is an activity book that accompanies Dandelion Launchers Units 4-7 and is perfect for children in Reception to Year 2 who are learning to read.

This beginner reader book gradually introduces different vowel spellings through a series of activities. Each stage introduces new letters and sounds while supporting any previously taught phonic letters or sounds and high-frequency words or sight words.

For example:

Unit 4a: Ted (Unit 4: d, e, f, v)

Unit 4b: The Fib (Unit 4: d, e, f, v)

Unit 4c: Bob and the Cod (Unit 4: d, e, f, v)

Unit 4d: Meg and Ted (Unit 4: d, e, f, v)

Unit 5a: Ken, the Rat (Unit 5: k, l, r, u)

Unit 5b: Kim, the Bug (Unit 5: k, l, r, u)

Unit 5c: Mud (Unit 5: k ,l, r, u)

Unit 5d: The Bus (Unit 5: k, l, r, u)

Unit 6a: Viv Can Run (Unit 6: j, w, z)

Unit 6b: Jim and Jam (Unit 6: j, w, z)

Unit 6c: Ken Gets Wet (Unit 6: j, w, z)

Unit 6d: Zog (Unit 6: j, w, z)

Unit 7a: Rex Yells (Unit 7: x, y, ff, ll, ss, zz)

Unit 7b: Rex Will Not Sit (Unit 7: x, y, ff, ll, ss, zz)

Unit 7c: Bob on the Sill (Unit 7: x, y, ff, ll, ss, zz)

Unit 7d: The Hill (Unit 7: x, y, ff, ll, ss, zz)

This beginner reader series features:

• Activities to practice previously taught spellings in Dandelion Launchers Units 4-7.
• Reading material aimed at children aged 5-7.
• Vowel spellings which introduce a vowel team. An example of this is spelling ‘ea’ for the sound ‘e’, like the word ‘head’.

This 226-page phonics activity book features:

• Introduction to the activity book.
• A variety of activities to practice phonics materials taught in the accompanying book Dandelion Readers Vowel Spellings, Level 1.

What is phonics?

Phonics is a way of teaching children to read by understanding the sounds that individual letters make and blending them to make a word. Children can learn to read using this skill to decode new words. Phonic Books specialises in decodable, systematic books supporting this structured literacy instruction.