Phonic Books The Fact Files 1 Activities: Consonant blends and digraphs, suffixes -ed and -ing

A photocopiable activity book to accompany Phonic Books The Fact Files 1, decodable nonfiction for older readers in need of support.

Phonic Books The Fact Files 1 Activities is an older reader activity book that introduces children to a few letters and sounds at a time. It accompanies Phonic Books The Fact Files 1 and is aimed at older readers who can read simple CVC words.

Thrilling stories are packed with facts on high-interest topics that will appeal to older readers, taking them from CVC and CVCC word text through to adjacent consonants, consonant digraphs and suffixes -ed and -ing.

For example:
Book 1: CVC, CVCC
Book 2: CVCC
Book 3: CVCC
Book 4: CCVC and -ed
Book 5: CCVCC
Book 6: ‘ch’ and ‘tch’
Book 7: ‘sh’
Book 8: ‘th’
Book 9: ‘ck’ and ‘qu’
Book 10: ‘ng’
Book 11: ‘wh’ and -ing
Book 12: ‘le’


The Fact Files 1 shares the same phonic progression as Phonic Books That Dog! and Magic Belt and can be used together to consolidate phonemic knowledge and reading skills.

This 200-page phonics activity book features:

• Activities to practice previously taught spellings in The Fact Files 1.
• Reading material aimed at older children who need support with their reading.
• Common CVC and CVCC words that are gradually introduced in each book.

What is phonics?

Phonics is a way of teaching children to read by understanding the sounds that individual letters make and blending them to make a word. Children can learn to read using this skill to decode new words. Phonic Books specializes in decodable, systematic books supporting this structured literacy instruction.