Mel on Mars: 12 books

Determined to find her brother, Mel travels to Mars in a space pod. Each book continues Mel’s adventures, encouraging students to continue to read the books and find out how the series ends.

Phonic Books Mel on Mars comprises 12 truly decodable books for older readers who can read simple CVC words. This action-packed quest story, with age-appropriate illustrations, takes the reader from CVC and CVCC word text through to adjacent consonants, consonant digraphs and suffixes -ed and -ing. This series shares the same phonic progression as the Phonic Books Magic Belt and Phonic Books That Dog! series. The series can be used either independently or in parallel with these series.

• Book 1: Dom Gets Lost (CVC, CVCC)
• Book 2: Mel Lands on Mars (CVCC)
• Book 3: Lost in the Dust (CVCC)
• Book 4: Hunted at the Dump (CCVC and -ed) Book 5: Trust Dr Kim (CCVCC)
• Book 6: Catch that Torch ('ch' and 'tch')
• Book 7: Will the Ship Crash? ('sh')
• Book 8: The Myth of the Earth Planet ('th')
• Book 9: The Quest for Quock Rocks ('ck' and 'qu')
• Book 10: The Winged Thing with Fangs ('ng')
• Book 11: The Whispering Wind ('wh' and -ing)
• Book 12: Out of the Rubble ('le')

Accompanying photocopiable activities for word building, blending, spelling and comprehension can be found in Phonic Books Mel on Mars Activities.