Here's a link to them: https://dogonalogbooks.com/ These are Orton Gillingham decodable readers with progressive phonics (like BOB books, but much more difficult).
This is my second post about them. We just started Book #4. They are expensive. The pictures are ridiculous. The stories are ridiculous. But, these readers are the greatest thing I ever bought for my 7 year-old.
He cried trying to read the All About Reading reader, which is one of the best reading programs out there for kids with dyslexia. But the Dog on a Log readers? For some reason, he is able to focus on the print better, he doesn't complain of headaches or stomachaches when he's reading them. He is making so much progress since we started using them over the winter.
These readers are a miracle in this house!
The first book took him a month and a half to get through (that's how much he was struggling). We were literally sounding out one page a day. Now he's going through about a book a week (which is getting expensive).
The review page with sight words at the end of each story is really helpful. He is actually recognizing these words without painfully sounding them out.
He finished Book #3 last week and he was so proud of himself that he was yelling and jumping around his room and hugging his stuffed animals. It was the greatest moment!
There are two versions of the books: the red books and the purple books. https://dogonalogbooks.com/picture-guide/ They have the same phonics progression, but the purple books have more white space and fewer words on each page. We are currently using the purple books, but I think he could switch to the red series and be fine now.
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