The Adventures of Doc Leeda is a set of 11 books that use a colour-coded technique for different phonetic sounds and features a fun female veterinarian that can communicate with animals. The colour-coding approach for sound recognition helps children build reading confidence while simultaneously retaining the basic sound concepts and phonics lessons
Doc Leeda is a vet with a magical power—she can speak to and understand animals. Join her as she cares for sick and injured animals—and helps young readers learn the many ways to spell vowel phonemes.
Designed for teachers, parents, and aides to use in one-to-one and small-group learning, each book focuses on one phoneme, which is highlighted each time it appears in the text. Engaging full-colour illustrations appear on every story page. Each book includes directions for an adult helper, and a review of concepts for the student/
Trey the Horse Gets a New Home (“long a” sound)
Lilly the Monkey Becomes a Mom (“long e” sound)
Niles the Bison Gets Hurt (“long i” sound)
Odin the Goat Gets Sick (“long o” sound)
Sister Elephants Disagree (“short e” sound)
Nick the Stingray Needs Help (“short i” sound)
Molly the Otter Is Rescued (“short o” sound)
Hunter the Duckling Is Lost (“short u” sound)
Dawson the Hawk Saves a Fawn (“aw” sound)
Helping Brownie the Cow (“ow” sound)
Lou the Kangaroo Gets Adopted (“long oo” sound)
"The Doc Leeda series is a fun and engaging set of books that follow Doc Leeda, a vet with magical powers that allows her to understand and speak with animals. This fun series allows students to visually see each of the different ways to represent specific phoneme patterns. I'm excited to incorporate this series into our intervention setting (and classroom-based instruction) to help students visually make the connection to the patterns they're learning. I'm looking forward to using the series to help to bridge research-based, systematic and structured phonics instruction into reading that students are excited about! This is a great series to have in your classroom or intervention setting."
- Corey Pollard, Executive Director, Ascend Learning & Educational Consulting