Chickens In The Attic Chapter Book: Decodable Chapter Book Series for Students Learning to Read. For Developing Readers and Students with Dyslexia. ... 40 (DOG ON A LOG Chapter Books) - Softcover

Brookes, Pamela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1648312926 ISBN 13: 9781648312922

Publisher: DOG ON A LOG Books, 2026

Synopsis

Is the bathtub in the attic a real raft or did they make that up?

This book has about 3,000 words.

DOG ON A LOG Books are for anyone learning to read, including people with dyslexia. You can start anywhere in the series based on your student’s reading skills.

The word list below and the "Read Sample" button under the cover picture will help you determine if this book is right for your reader.

About DOG ON A LOG Books:

• The series progresses in Steps. Each Step of books introduces a few more phonics rules.
• The stories get longer and more complex with each new step of phonics.
• Kids love that they get to read REAL chapter books that need a bookmark.
• Students should be taught the phonics and High Frequency Words in each book prior to reading. This allows them to use their skills to sound-out and READ the words. They will have no need to guess any words.
• Written with a Systematic Phonics, Orton-Gillingham, Science of Reading-based phonics sequence.
• Print books optimized for dyslexia with cream-colored paper, large Verdana font, and extra spacing.

This is an individual Step 8 chapter book. Books can be purchased individually or as collection volumes.

• (Blue) DOG ON A LOG Get Ready! Readers help students learn the letters and blending words.
• (Teal) DOG ON A LOG Get Set! Books offer more practice of three-letter words with a middle short vowel.
• (Purple) DOG ON A LOG Let’s GO! Readers tell the same stories, but have fewer words than the chapter books. They help prepare kids who are not ready for the longer chapter books.
• (Red) DOG ON A LOG chapter books gradually introduce more phonics rules and allow students to work towards mastery of the phonics skills.

For additional information on using this series, see DOG ON A LOG's “Teach Reading With Decodable Books."

Information on printable activities is provided in each book.

Use this word list to help you decide where in the series your child should start.

DOG ON A LOG "WHAT STEP SHOULD WE START WITH?" WORD LIST
Have your child read the following words. If they cannot read every word in a Step, that is probably the step they should start with. For some kids, you may want to start at an earlier Step so they can build confidence in their reading ability.

IF YOUR CHILD IS NOT READY FOR GET READY! READERS
Check out the DOG ON A LOG Parent and Teacher Guide:
--Prepare For Reading (Activities for Pre-Readers)

Get Ready! Or Get Set! Books
jet, zap, pod, kit, rug, bin, hem

Step 1
chin, mash, sock, sub, cat, that, Dan’s

Step 2
less, bats, tell, mall, chips, whiff, falls

Step 3
bangs, dank, honk, pings, chunk, sink, gong, rung

Step 4
silk, fluff, smash, krill, drop, slim, whisk

Step 5
hunch, crate, rake, tote, inch, mote, lime

Step 6
child, molts, fold, hind, jolt, post, colds

Step 7
strive, scrape, splint, twists, crunch, prints, blend

Step 8
finish, denim, within, bathtub, sunset, medic, habit

Step 9
hundred, goldfinch, tree, wheat, inhale, play, Joe

Step 10
be, remake, spry, repeat, silo, sometime, pinwheel

Step 11
far, north, spire, turn, inhabit, calculate, Wyoming

Check out our books for Parents and Teachers:

--Teaching a Struggling Reader: One Mom’s Experience with Dyslexia

--Prepare For Reading (Activities for Pre-Readers)

Teaching Letters & Sounding-Out Words
The Manual for Using Get Ready! Readers
--Learn to Read (Letters Make Words)

Teaching Phonics and Reading
--Teach Reading with Decodable Books

About this title

About the Author

My child needed an ongoing supply of systematic, decodable phonics books that can be used with an Orton Gillingham or Science of Reading approach. Finding such books that provided enough reading practice for each Step of phonics proved to be a nearly impossible task so I decided to write them myself. I knew other families were as desperate as I had been for this type of series so I decided to publish them.My daughter's tutors helped me learn about evidence-based reading instruction and have taught me so much about effective methods of reading instruction.DOG ON A LOG Books can be used for any new reader. My message to parents of struggling readers: There was a time when I did not think my daughter with dyslexia would learn to read. Now she reads better than most American adults. It took years, but with good instruction, a lot of hard word, and my DOG ON A LOG Decodable books, she learned to read.

Edition details

• Publisher: DOG ON A LOG Books
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1648312926
• ISBN 13: 9781648312922
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Trang Doan
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 97
• Editor: Hanna M.Ed. Brenda