SPELD SA Phonic Books

SPELD SA Phonic Books are free to use

The books are grouped in a developing order based on the order of sounds introduced in the Jolly Phonics early literacy program, www.jollylearning.co.uk

Each book is published with suggestions on how parents, tutors and teachers can get the most out of the book.

SPELD SA provides phonic readers free of charge that suit a variety of ages and abilities. Please use these readers at your discretion accounting for your child or children's abilities, ages and needs.

More about the SPELD SA Phonic Books

Videos of Ryan practising reading:

• Video 1 (filmed October 2011)
• Video 2 (filmed April 2012)

SPELD SA phonic books (online flash version) require the Adobe Flash player to be installed. You may need to wait a moment for the book to load. Navigate each book with the buttons provided at the base of the book or by dragging the corner of each page across. An enlarged view of each page is possible by clicking on the page.

The printable versions of these phonic books have been designed so that once printed, the pages can be folded in half to create an A5 book.

iPads and Tablet PDF are available. Please ensure you have the latest iBook update 2.1 or above, for the names to be listed correctly in iBook. Go to the PDF file for the book you wish to open, click on open with iBook, the book will then be stored in collections under PDF.

If you would like to download a free PDF reader to your computer so that you can turn the pages of each book when you are not online, download the Flipping PDF Reader from here http://webstunning.com/pdf-reader/?/pdf-reader. If you save the iPad/Tablet version of the pdfs to your computer, you can open them in this pdf reader and it acts like a book where you can turn the pages.Note: The Flipping PDF Reader program is downloaded in a zipped file as it is a large file, so you will need to extract it before you install it.

There are currently 199 Free SPELD SA Phonic Books available. New books are loaded regularly, so please visit again soon. If you have enjoyed these books you may wish to make a donation so that we can publish more.

We have also started uploading worksheets to complement the books. There are currently 149 free sets of worksheets loaded.

To navigate a set of phonic books, click on the picture that represents the set you wish to use.

Set 1-15 Sequence of Sounds

• Words in Sets 1-7 texts include one way of spelling the 42 main sounds of English.
• Set 8, 9 and 10 texts include alternative spellings for the vowel sounds and consonants in sets 1-7.
• Sets 11-15 texts include less common alternative spellings for vowel sounds and consonants; silent letters and word endings.
• Sets 16-20 texts include alternative spellings for word endings.

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Are you an illustrator?

Would you be interested in illustrating one of our phonic books? Please contact SPELD SA on 8431 1655 if you would like to be involved.

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