Intervention; Reading; Phonics; SEN; Dyslexia; Dyslexic; Decodable; Explicit instruction; Practise reading; Consolidate reading; Reading skills; Reading knowledge gaps; Fluency

When Zak's grandfather falls ill, Zak must go on a quest to find ten magical gems to help cure him. This action-packed quest story takes the reader from CVC and CVCC word text through to alternative consonants, consonant digraphs and suffixes -ed and -ing.

Phonic Books Magic Belt comprises 12 decodables for older readers who can read simple CVC words. Magic Belt shares the same phonic progression as Phonic Books That Dog! and can be used in parallel to consolidate phonemic knowledge and reading skills.

Book 1- The Man in the Mist (CVC, CVCC)
Book 2- Ten Rocks (CVCC)
Book 3- "Help Us!" (CVCC)
Book 4- The Clam (CCVC and 'ed')
Book 5- Crabs! (CCVCC)
Book 6- Crouch! ('ch' and 'tch')
Book 7- Hush! ('sh')
Book 8- The Sixth Rock ('th')
Book 9- Golem of the Rocks ('ck' and 'qu')
Book 10- Dung! ('ng')
Book 11- The Spitting Pot ('wh' and 'ing')
Book 12- The Simple Plot ('le')

Accompanying photocopiable activities for word building, blending, spelling and comprehension can be found in Phonic Books Magic Belt Activities.