Phonics Stories: For Older Learners

This is a book of decodable stories and accompanying worksheets suitable for older learners. All the resources are photo-copiable.

There is an abundance of phonics resources for young children but often the content and tone of the text is unsuitable for older learners. This book provides stories more suitable for older children, adults and ESOL learners.

The phonic progression is that presented in the Sounds~Write programme, but the stories would be useful for any teacher who is introducing phonics to their learners in a structured sequence.

Frances Woodward is the founder of ‘Forward with Phonics’.

She has specialised in the teaching of reading, using synthetic phonics, for the past thirteen years and has achieved successful outcomes with learners of all ages, from five to seventy-five!

Frances has over twenty years’ experience teaching in primary schools and twelve years working in the Further Education sector. She has worked in Adult Community Learning, providing literacy classes for Entry Level and ESOL learners and was an Associated Lecturer in the Additional Support Department at Bedford College. She is a trainer for the Sounds-Write programme, providing courses in schools and colleges.