Island Adventure Series

Catch Up Readers
Designed for older students, these books can be used to either teach or reinforce new and already learned decoding skills. All thirteen progressive phonics series (Moon Dogs to Amber Guardians) feature action-packed stories divided into books with about 300 words each, with the conclusion of the story in each sets final book.

Features of Catch Up Readers
•Designed for guided or independent reading
•Ideal for practicing specific decoding patterns in the context of a larger narrative
•Text is supported by color pictures on each page
•Each book focuses on a set of sound-spellings for readers to practice
•Action-packed stories in short books (about 300 words each)

Island Adventure Series

The Island Adventure Series is 10 adventure stories for students ages 8 through 14 who would benefit from a beginning phonics program. To promote interest, the series features one continuous story when read in sequence, with the conclusion in the final book.
•Book 1: ‘ae’: ay, ai, a, a-e, ea, ey
•Book 2: ‘ee’: ee, ea, y, e, ie, e-e, ei
•Book 3: ‘oe’: ow, oa, oe, o-e, o
•Book 4: ‘er’: , er, ir, ur,or, ear
•Book 5: ‘ow’ ‘oi’: ow, ou & oi, oy
•Book 6: ‘oo’: oo, ue, u-e, ew, ou, u
•Book 7:‘ie’: igh, ie, i-e, i, y
•Book 8: ‘or’:or, ore, a, aw, awe, au, ar, al, ough
•Book 9: ‘air’: air, are, ear, ere, eir
•Book 10: ‘ar’: ar, a, al, au, ear

Jack and his little sister, Snub, are visiting Gran and Grandpa on a remote Scottish island where they live. An accident brings them closer together, but a subsequent calamity is the beginning of an exciting quest.

Starting with the sound ‘ae’, each of the 10 books introduces a phoneme and its alternative spellings. This series shares the same phonic progression as the Rescue Series and Talisman 1 Series and can be used in parallel.