One adventure. One sound. A challenge for every learner.
LexPhonics
Step through the Secret Forest Gates and join Lex the Lynx on a systematic synthetic phonics journey — one sound, one story, one adventure at a time.
Every adventure begins with a single step.
Join Lex the Lynx as he steps through the Secret Forest Gates and discovers exciting new worlds filled with animal friends, challenges and adventures. Each story introduces a new sound, helping young readers build confidence as they learn to blend, segment, read and spell.
Following a systematic synthetic phonics approach, every chapter focuses on one target phoneme while providing carefully differentiated activities that allow every child to learn at their own pace.
Whether children are reading their very first decodable words or exploring longer vocabulary, every learner can enjoy the same adventure while progressing along their own pathway.
This preview is drawn from Book A — Single Sounds, which introduces the first 24 sounds. English has 44 discrete phonemes in total, so the series continues across two further books, Book B and Book B+, to cover the rest.
Preview the book
Flip through the first pages below — the cover, the author's note, the sound map, and Lex's first two adventures with their accompanying activity pages.
This is a preview of the first 10 pages of Book A. English has 44 discrete phonemes in total — Book A covers the first 24 single sounds, with Books B and B+ continuing the series.
The stories are designed to do more than practise phonics. They introduce narrative structure, broaden vocabulary and encourage curiosity, observation and thoughtful decision-making. As the series progresses, children move from listening to stories to reading them with increasing independence. Step by step, they develop the confidence to recognise spelling patterns, read fluently and apply their knowledge in both reading and writing.
Designed for mixed-attainment classrooms, multilingual learners, intervention groups and home learning, Lex Phonics Pathways provides meaningful challenge for every learner while keeping the whole class on the same learning journey.
Whether children are taking their very first steps into reading or exploring the many ways English can represent the same sound, every page encourages curiosity, confidence and a lifelong love of language.
One journey. Three paths. A challenge for every learner.