Field Notes: Decodable Books for Years 9–10

Ten decodable books for secondary students. Grown-up topics and real stories, with the sounds taught in order.

Field Notes is for secondary students who need to strengthen their decoding without being handed a book for little kids. The books look and read like the real thing. They deal with mysteries, escapes, sport, deep-sea exploration and careers, and the sound teaching sits quietly underneath.

Each book works on a set of sounds from a ten-unit sequence that matches Signal. Students read a full-length text, get plenty of practice with the target sounds, and finish feeling they have read a proper book.

Why teachers choose Field Notes

• Ten books in a planned sound sequence.
• Fiction and non-fiction.
• 16 pages of text in each book.
• Reading Practice word list on the inside cover.
• A teaching notes page in every book.
• Suits secondary literacy intervention, Tier 2 and Tier 3 groups and English language learners.

The ten books

• The Failed Escape
• The Deep Sea
• Lights Out
• The Ghost Road
• The New Frontier
• A Good Sport
• Under Pressure
• A Career in Repair
• The Decoy
• The Investigation