Reply To: Phonics Readers
Howdy,
I don’t know of commercial readers that align with the program fully, but I really like the Phonic Books: https://amzn.to/4e5rS2a
I have only have stages 8-15 in my class, but I feel confident they would all be good.
I try not to rely on controlled texts for too long, so I don’t have many in my class. I think it’s important to move to trade books rather quickly (within a few months) with support. This looks like reading an interesting picture book book with an emergent reader, and modeling sounding out words together as you go.
EBLI has a lot of great information on this and I’d start with this blog post + video.
Supported Reading in Text: Moving Rapidly from Decodable Books to Trade Books