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    The Squiggle Code (Letters Make Words): DOG ON A LOG Pup Books, #2
    The Squiggle Code (Letters Make Words): DOG ON A LOG Pup Books, #2
    The Squiggle Code (Letters Make Words): DOG ON A LOG Pup Books, #2
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    The Squiggle Code (Letters Make Words): DOG ON A LOG Pup Books, #2

    By Pamela Brookes

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    The Squiggle Code Books are easy for parents to use, fun for kids, and follow the science of learning to read. With lots of printable games, flashcards, and other materials that can be downloaded from dogonalogbooks (dot) com, this series was created to be economical for families and teachers. 
     

    All DOG ON A LOG Books follow a systematic, structured literacy/Orton-Gillingham based phonics sequence.

     

    This book guides parents and teachers in teaching letters, blending, and the beginning or reading.

    Trying to find a way to teach your child to read, whether you are supplementing what your child is being taught in school or as a homeschooling family, can feel overwhelming. DOG ON A LOG Pup Books are written by a mom who wants to try and eliminate some of those feelings for other parents. These parent-friendly books will guide you along the path of teaching reading.

    DOG ON A LOG Pup Books give simple activities you can do with your child. Once you understand the skills that your child needs to learn, you may wish to add additional activities. Resources are suggested that will help you find additional free or low-cost activities you can personalize to your child.

     

    Book 1: Before the Squiggle Code (A Roadmap to Reading) starts at the very beginning of the learning to read process: it helps the learner hear the smallest sounds in words. Relevant excerpts from Teaching a Struggling Reader: One Mom's Experience with Dyslexia are also included to help parents with children who are struggling to read.

     

    Book 2: The Squiggle Code (Letters Make Words) helps the learner discover that each sound has a letter or letters and when the letters are put together, they make words. This is when reading begins. The Second Edition contains optional D'Nealian tracing letters.

     

    Book 3 Kids' Squiggles (Letters Make Words) The stories from The Squiggle Code are formatted with pictures and less words per page so they are less intimidating to new readers.   
     

    DOG ON A LOG Pup Books teach phonological and phonemic awareness skills.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDOG ON A LOG Books
    Release dateAug 12, 2019
    ISBN9781393787365
    The Squiggle Code (Letters Make Words): DOG ON A LOG Pup Books, #2
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    Pamela Brookes

    My child needed an ongoing supply of progressive phonics books that use an Orton-Gllingham approach. This proved to be a nearly impossible, expensive task.   I decided to put my talents to use and simply write books for her. She is learning to read using an Orton-Gillingham approach. These books follow a gentle progression of phonics rules. DOG ON A LOG Books have five books at each step to allow for practice, repetition, and enjoyment.   I want to share our books with new readers and their families. I also want to make them affordable. Since every family will have different needs and different budgets, I am making the books available in both digital and paper editions. They can be purchased as individual books or collections of five same-step books in one volume. Paperbacks have black and white images. They are optimized for dyslexic learners with cream colored paper and Verdana font. The digital books all have color pictures.    As our reading journey progresses I will continue to write books for my daughter and to share them with other families.   I was not going to include artwork because drawing is not my talent. However, my daughter was adamant she wanted her books to include pictures. I am grateful to the artists who have made their images available for public domain uses. These sweet images give my daughter a break when the reading is challenging.   I hope other new readers will be entertained by these stories as they practice, and master, each step of their reading journey. 

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      The Squiggle Code (Letters Make Words) - Pamela Brookes

      DOG ON A LOG

      Pup Books

      Book 2

      I am not a Reading Specialist or certified educator, but I do have a lot of experience teaching my daughter with dyslexia how to read. At times, it was difficult to determine what to do and how to do it. It is my hope that the information provided within this book will make the journey a bit easier for other parents. The content provided herein is for informational purposes and does not take the place of an evaluation and teaching plan provided by a credentialed educator. Every effort has been made to ensure that the content provided here is accurate and helpful for my readers. However, this is not an exhaustive treatment of the subject. No liability is assumed for losses or damages due to the information provided. You should consult a credentialed educator for specific guidance on educating your child, yourself, or others.

      DOG ON A LOG Books

      Tucson, Arizona

      Copyright ©2019 By Pamela Brookes

      All Rights Reserved.

      For information, contact the publisher at

      read@dogonalogbooks.com

      Public Domain images from www.clker.com

      Traceable letters (except lowercase ‘b’) by

      Print Designs by Kris

      Traceable D’Nealian font and lines (except lowercase b with arrows or stars) created by DN KidLetter.

      http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/jmag0042/kidfonts.html

      Stars and internal arrows added by Pamela Brookes.

      Library of Congress Control Number:2019906177

      www.dogonalogbooks.com

      THE

      SQUIGGLE CODE

      (LETTERS MAKE WORDS)

      DOG ON A LOG Pup Books

      Book 2

      By Pamela Brookes

      Edited by Nancy Mather Ph.D.

      Sight Words Introduced in

      The Squiggle Code

      Letter Group 1: the, is

      Letter Group 2: a, and, to, has

      Letter Group 4: does, go, of

      Letter Group 5: her, says

      From

      Before the Squiggle Code

      Spoken language is a code. The code starts with random sounds that we group together into words. Then we put several words together to make sentences. By talking and by listening to each other’s words and sentences, we share ideas with other human beings.

      Reading and writing are another type of code for sharing ideas. This code involves squiggles. We happen to call those squiggles letters.

      We put squiggles on a piece of paper and tell a child, Tell me what this says.

      Yet those squiggles are silent. They do not make any noise. Surely children must think we are crazy that we can get sounds out of squiggles.

      Children trust us so they try to make that madness happen. If they are lucky, they have patient adults that show them how the squiggles make sounds and that groups of squiggles combine to make words.

      Part of the best way to help someone learn to read is to make sure they can hear the smallest sounds in words which are called phonemes. And before we can teach them the small sounds, we must make sure they can hear the big sounds.

      So, the beginning of learning to read is making sure the student can hear words. That may seem silly since most people learn to talk when they are just babies. Yet if they haven’t thought about what a word is, how can we expect them to turn squiggles into words?

      This book will help your child, or even an adult learner, learn to hear each word in a sentence. Once they can do that, they must learn to hear syllables in each word. (Identifying syllables will also be an important skill when they are trying to read. Once they are taught the six types of syllables, it will make reading and writing a lot easier.) After they can identify the syllables in a word, it will be time to hear the individual sounds, the phonemes, in a word.

      And then we tell them that each sound has a squiggle. If they put those squiggles together, they will make words. And if they can look at the squiggles someone has placed on a piece of paper or on a computer screen and they can make all those squiggles make a sound, they will have broken the squiggle code. That is when reading begins.

      Table of Contents

      DOG ON A LOG Parent and Teacher Guides

      Introduction

      Getting Help

      Keeping this Affordable

      Breaking the Squiggle Code

      Adapt to Your Child

      Let’s Talk Repetition

      Let’s Talk Motivation

      Let’s Talk Patience

      The Squiggles are also Called: Letters

      Letter Group 1: a, s, m, f, t, n

      Vowel: a

      Blending Words

      Tapping

      Sight Words

      Sight Words for Sentences: the, is

      Letter Group 2: r, d, c, g

      Sight Words for Sentences: a, and, to, has

      Letter Group 3: o

      Vowel: o

      Letter Group 4: b, h, l, x

      Letter Reversals

      b and d Make Your Bed

      Sight Words for Sentences: does, go, of

      Letter Group 5: i, p, k, j

      Vowel: i

      Letter Reversals

      p and g See a Pig

      Sight Words for Sentences: her, says

      Letter Group 6: u, y, z, qu

      Vowel: u

      Letter Reversals

      q Is a Chicken Letter

      Letter Group 7: e, v, w

      Vowel: e

      CAPITAL LETTERS FOR TRACING

      D’Nealian Letters for Tracing

      STRUGGLING READERS

      What If It’s NOT Dyslexia

      The Importance of Early Intervention

      Keywords

      DOG ON A LOG Phonics Progression

      DOG ON A LOG Sight Word Progression

      How You Can Help

      Quick Assessment

      DOG ON A LOG

      Parent and Teacher Guides

      Book 1. Teaching a Struggling Reader:

      One Mom’s Experience with Dyslexia

      Book 2. How to Use Decodable Books to Teach Reading

      Available for free from many online booksellers or

      read at www.dogonalogbooks.com/free

      Introduction

      Humans naturally learn to walk and talk. These days, most of us learn to read. However, reading is not a natural process. For people to learn to do it well, most must be given direct instruction in how to do it.

      Scientific research has shown that the best way for most people to learn to read is by using phonics. The student learns to hear sounds in words then associates those sounds with squiggles that we call letters. Next, they learn to blend those letter sounds into words. If they are learning to read in English, they must also learn about all the different letter combinations that can sometimes make the same sounds. They must also learn about the words that do not follow the phonics rules.

      Your child, or possibly an adult learner, learned to hear the sounds in words in DOG ON A LOG Pup Book 1: Before the Squiggle Code (A Roadmap to Reading.) If your child has not mastered the skills in that book, they are not ready for this book. As I pointed out in Before the Squiggle Code, you would not want someone to build your house if they put the roof on before the concrete floor was finished drying. The walls would sink into the concrete plus the foundation would be full of footprint impressions and nails that were dropped while the walls and roof were being built.

      Once your child has mastered the skills from Before the Squiggle Code (A Roadmap to Reading,)

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