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Dandelion Launchers Units 1-3 Activities is an activity book that accompanies Dandelion Launchers Units 1-3 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 1a: Sam, Tam, Tim (Unit 1: s, a, t, i, m)
Unit 1b: I Am Sam (Unit 1: s, a, t, i, m)
Unit 1c: Is It Sam? (Unit 1: s, a, t, i, m)
Unit 1d: On the Mat (Unit 1: s, a, t, i, m)
Unit 2a: Pam (Unit 2: n, o, p)
Unit 2b: The Pot (Unit 2: n, o, p)
Unit 2c: A Map (Unit 2: n, o, p)
Unit 2d: A Man (Unit 2: n, o, p)
Unit 3a: Bob (Unit 3: b, c, g, h)
Unit 3b: Pip and the Bat (Unit 3: b, c, g, h)
Unit 3c: Sam''s Bag (Unit 3: b, c, g, h)
Unit 3d: Pam and the Cat (Unit 3: b, c, g, h)

This beginner reader series features:

• Activities to practice previously taught spellings in Dandelion Launchers Units 1-3.
• 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 Launchers Units 1-3.

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.