A photocopiable activity book to accompany Phonic Books The Fact Files 2, decodable nonfiction for older readers in need of support.Phonic Books The Fact Files 2 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 2 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, CVCCBook 2: CVCCBook 3: CVCCBook 4: CCVC and -edBook 5: CCVCCBook 6: 'ch' and 'tch'Book 7: 'sh'Book 8: 'th'Book 9: 'ck' and 'qu'Book 10: 'ng'Book 11: 'wh' and -ingBook 12: 'le'The Fact Files 2 shares the same phonic progression as Phonic Books Alba and Totem, and can be used in parallel to consolidate phonemic knowledge and reading skills.This 200-page phonics activity book features: - Activities to practice previously taught spellings in The Fact Files 2.- 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.