Description:
DOG ON A LOG Books are for anyone learning to read with phonics, including people with dyslexia. You can start anywhere in the series based on your student's reading skills.
Brief description: My child needed an ongoing supply of systematic, decodable phonics books that can be used with an Orton Gillingham or Science of Reading approach. Finding such books that provided enough reading practice for each Step of phonics proved to be a nearly impossible task so I decided to write them myself. I knew other families were as desperate as I had been for this type of series so I decided to publish them.My daughter's tutors helped me learn about evidence-based reading instruction and have taught me so much about effective methods of reading instruction.DOG ON A LOG Books can be used for any new reader. My message to parents of struggling readers: There was a time when I did not think my daughter with dyslexia would learn to read. Now she reads better than most American adults. It took years, but with good instruction, a lot of hard word, and my DOG ON A LOG Decodable books, she learned to read.
Review Quotes:
Lynne E. Jaffee, PHD, co-author: Woodcock-Johnson IV: Reports, Recommendations, and Strategies (2016), and Comprehensive Evaluations: Case Reports for Psychologists, Diagnosticians, and Special Educators (2011): In the 45 years that I have been teaching students with dyslexia, I'm always looking for reading material. Pamela Brookes has created DOG ON A LOG Chapter Books that follow an incremental, phonics-based pattern and work well with Orton-Gillingham based programs. Ms. Brookes' books will be a great asset to educational therapists, parents, and special education teachers in their work with children and adults with dyslexia.