Fantasy Decodable Books
The Moonlit Mountain Readers combine captivating stories with intentional phonics instruction, bridging the gap between the enchanting worlds of fantasy and the foundational skills of early literacy.
Scope and Sequence
The Moonlit Mountain Readers series offers readers systematic practice with essential phonics concepts, following a carefully sequenced progression. Each book provides concentrated decoding practice with new phonics features, building skills step by step.
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About the Moonlit Mountain Readers
From the Scottish Highlands with Nox, a lovable Loch Ness Monster, to a futuristic city with Ro-Bo 7 and her robot family, The Moonlit Mountain Readers immerse children in a collection of imaginative worlds.
With compelling visual storytelling guided by spectacular artists, this series invites readers to fall in love with these mythical creatures, anthropomorphic animals, and fantastical landscapes—all while building the skills and confidence to become lifelong readers.
Phonics Progression
The 90 Moonlit Mountain Readers titles are grouped into 13 irresistible character-centric series that encourage readers to keep reading, from one book to the next. Each story within a series presents readers with familiar characters and the next part of their epic adventure!
Each book provides concentrated decoding practice with new phonics features, building skills step by step.
- Set A introduces foundational skills
- Set B expands into advanced phonics and multisyllabic words
- Cumulative review books within each series provide landing points to consolidate learning, reinforcing earlier concepts without adding new ones.
Overall, the Moonlit Mountain Readers supports a steady, staircase-like progression through phonics and decoding challenges.
Early Phonics Concepts
Set A of the Moonlit Mountain Readers introduces foundational skills and early phonics concepts.
Set A Includes:
- 48 titles across 6 unique series
- Gradual progression in text complexity and length, ranging from 8-page books to 16-page books
- An expanding collection of high-frequency words
- Gradual progression of phonics concepts in single-syllable
words:
- Alphabet Knowledge
- Short Vowels
- Blends
- Digraphs
- Open Syllable
- Cumulative Review
Advanced Phonics Concepts
Set B of the Moonlit Mountain Readers expands into more advanced phonics concepts and multisyllabic words.
Set B Includes:
- 42 titles across 7 unique series
- Gradual progression in text complexity and length, ranging from 16-page narratives to 32-page chapter books.
- An expanding collection of high-frequency words
- Gradual progression of phonics concepts in single-syllable
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multisyllabic words:
- Review of Set A Concepts
- Silent E
- Inflectional Endings
- Cumulative Review
- Vowel Teams
- Consonant -LE
- R-Controlled Vowels
- Special Vowels
