Advanced Phonics Books

The Advanced Phonics Books are being upgraded. Please click on the link below to access the OLDER Advanced books, and check back weekly for updates on the arrival of the new book versions.

rat dressed up as a knight These free books make it MUCH easier to teach advanced long vowels, rule-breakers, syllables, contractions, plurals and simple punctuation. After this book series, children are well on their way to becoming independent readers.

Age: 7 - 10 years old. For children who can read simple sentences.

Format: Downloadable e-books to read on-screen or print on your printer.

Activity sheets: Matching handwriting worksheets, word-search puzzles, flash cards and memory games are included for each book. (All for free!)

Change of Schedule

Due to scheduling conflicts, work on the *new* versions of the Advanced Phonics Books is temporarily interrupted.

If you were working with the *new* Advanced Phonics Books, please continue with the "OLD" phonics books, starting with the OLD Progressive Phonics Book #12, available here.

For more information, and to voice your opinion on this subject, please go to this page. Thanks.

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Advanced Phonics Book 1

Teaches the vowel combinations that include the letter Y: -ay (stay, day, etc.), -ey (they, hey, key), -uy (buy, guy), -oy (boy, toy), -oi (boil, coin) and -ye (eye, bye).

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
New Advanced Book #1		574 kB
Activity sheets for Advanced Book 1		391 kB

Advanced Phonics Book 2

Introduces syllables; teaches how a "Y" at the end of a word can become a second syllable; teaches how to tell if the first vowel-sound is short or long; teaches common exceptions to the rules just taught.

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
Activity sheets for Advanced Book 2		444 kB
Advanced Phonics Book 2		561 kB

Advanced Phonics Book 3

Teaches the different sounds that the letters C, S and G make.

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
Advanced Phonics Book 3		504 kB
Advanced_Book_3.zip		485 kB

Advanced Phonics Book 4

Teaches the variations of (and exceptions to)
the Silent E rule (words like gone, love, some,
one, cheese, etc.).

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
Advanced Phonics Book 4		682 kB
Activity sheets for Advanced Book 4		491 kB

Advanced Phonics Book 5

Teaches the exceptions to the rule "When two vowels go walking, the first vowel does the talking--and calls out its long vowel sound." The exceptions include words like said, again, bread, piece, friend, etc. Also teaches the "qu" digraph (queen, quit, etc.), and words where BOTH vowels make a sound (alien, quiet, idea, etc.).

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
Advanced Phonics Book 5		640 kB
Activity sheets for Advanced Book 5		481 kB

Advanced Phonics Book 6

Teaches what happens when you add a Silent E to an R Controlled vowel (it turns "car" into "care"). Also teaches the important words that break these rules (are, there, were and sure). In addition, repeats the rule that when there are two consonants before the Silent E, the Silent E cannot alter the preceding vowel (e.g. "starve" versus "stare").

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
Advanced Phonics Book 6		583 kB
Activity sheets for Advanced Book 6		478 kB

Advanced Phonics Book 7

Teaches the "ow" vowels -- ow/ou (cow, brown, about, etc.),
aw/au (draw, because, etc.) and ew (new, few, etc.).
Also teaches the variations on the rules.

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
Advanced Phonics Book 7		753 kB
Activity sheets for Advanced Book 7		507 kB

Advanced Phonics Book 8

Teaches the "R" controlled vowel pairs -air, -ear, -eer, -oor, -oar, -our and -ier (hair, hear, deer, door, roar, four, our and their, etc.) Also teaches many common homophones (hear/here, their/there, bare/bear, male/mail, etc.)

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
Advanced Phonics Book 8 printer version		488 kB
Adv_Book_8_Activity_Sheets.zip		260 kB

Guide to the upcoming new Advanced Books

What subjects will be covered in the upcoming books -- and where the subjects can right-now be found in our existing ("old") Advanced Books.
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The OLD Advanced Phonics Books

Back in the early days of Progressive Phonics, we used a different font. We also used different book formats that weren't broken down into easy lessons.

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
Old Book 11 (first Advanced Book)		1176 kB
Old Book 12 (second Advanced Book)		1845 kB
Old Book 13 (third Advanced Book)		834 kB
Old Book 14 (fourth Advanced Book)		838 kB
Old Book 15, part 1 (fifth Advanced Book)		2986 kB
Old Book 14 part two		3264 kB
Old Book 15, part 2		3165 kB