Phonic Books Pet Sitters Activities

Learn how to read with these decodable Phonic Books for older readers.

Phonic Books Pet Sitters are designed for older readers, introducing children to a few letters and sounds at a time. This pack of 12 decodable books is aimed at older children in the early stages of reading who need support. It teaches different letter patterns through a series of activities.

Each stage has dedicated books that break down phonics practice while offering different stories. This encourages independent reading from the start for ages 9-12 or KS2/Years 5 and 6. The programme begins at the CVC level and introduces adjacent consonants and consonant digraphs, with gentle progression throughout the set.

For example:

• Books 1 & 2: CVC, CVCC, CCVC
• Book 3: CCVCC
• Book 4: sh, ch, tch, th
• Book 5: ck, ng, qu, wh, le, -ed

This 200-page phonics activity book features:

• Activities to practice previously taught spellings in Pet Sitters.
• Each unit introduces new letters and sounds through sounding them out (sat, s - a - t).
• Reading material aimed at older children who need support with their reading.
• CVC, VCC, CVCC, CCVC, and CCVCC words, introducing adjacent consonants, consonant digraphs, and suffixes -ed and -ing.

What is phonics?

Phonics is a way of teaching children to read by understanding the sounds that individual letters make and blending them to form words. Children can learn to read using this skill to decode new words. Phonic Books specialises in decodable, systematic books that support this structured literacy instruction.