{"id":1167,"date":"2018-11-02T14:32:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2019-05-13T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T11:24:08","slug":"phonics-books-for-mature-readers-humour-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/phonics-books-for-mature-readers-humour-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonics books for mature readers with humour? Try &#8220;Life Is A Joke&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first four decodable books for older beginner readers available through our app were written at Level 2 of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/phonics-levels\/\">phonics progression<\/a>. These phonics books for mature readers also deal with some pretty serious themes: bullying, teen pregnancy, homelessness and&#8230;dystopian futures! With our new story and first Level 3 book, \u201cLife Is A Joke\u201d, we\u2019re adding a little levity to the collection.\u00a0 Not to mention a little teenage romance. Here\u2019s the text of the narrated introduction to this decodable story.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #e6e6e6;\">Kate Mills is a normal teenager in Year 10 in high school dealing with all of the normal high school issues. However, she is also dyslexic and finds written schoolwork challenging. She loves to \u201cwrite\u201d but finds spelling hard so she keeps an audio diary on an app called \u201cWe Blog\u201d. In\u00a0this book we get to read Kate\u2019s audio diary and her latest school assignment; her Life Log.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #e6e6e6;\">It is the end of January and Kate has a new assignment: she has to write a Life Log for Life Skills class in school. Quite unexpectedly, the Life Log assignment becomes a new craze, as does personalizing the book covers and decorating them with all kinds of glitter and\u00a0craft stickers. Can Kate use this new craze to impress Jake Knox on February the 14th\u2014Valentine\u2019s Day?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Level 3 introduces the beloved and extremely useful split digraph commonly known as &#8220;silent e&#8221;. Also introduced are the graphemes <em>ph, kn, wr, wh, gh, gn\u00a0<\/em>(corresponding to the phonemes \/f\/, \/n\/, \/r\/, \/w\/, \/g\/ and \/n\/ respectively)\u00a0 Lastly, the\u00a0<em>s-\/z\/\u00a0<\/em>grapheme-phoneme correspondence is also introduced.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a sample of <em>Life Is A Joke<\/em> in the free-to-download\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/teen-adult-phonics-library\/id1189152100?mt=8\">Teen &amp; Adult Phonics Library app for iPhone and iPad<\/a>.\u00a0 The app includes a sample of every decodable text in the our collection. This new title is also included in the TAP Library School Edition app available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/app\/tap-library-school-edition\/id1407324366?ls=1&amp;mt=8\">App Store<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.goojaji.tapschool\">Google Play<\/a>. We look forward to getting feedback on this newest addition to our digital phonics books for mature readers! (Just use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/contact\/\">contact form<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first four decodable books for older beginner readers available through our app were written at Level 2 of our&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299,170],"tags":[804,832,827],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}