Rev up your child’s reading skills with Ryder, Pepper, and Wheelie as they race through exciting dirt track adventures while learning essential phonics skills.
Ryder’s Digraph Dirt Track – Level 2: Digraphs is a motocross-themed learn-to-read book designed to help young readers understand and practice common digraph sounds through colorful illustrations, simple explanations, pronunciation guides, and familiar words.
Children race through SH, CH, TH, WH, PH, CK, NG, MB, and QU, learning how letters can work together to create sounds and build words.
Created for early readers ages 4–8, Ryder’s Digraph Dirt Track brings reading practice and dirt bike excitement together in a book made for kids who would rather be at the motocross track.
Start your engines. It’s time to ride into reading!
Learning to read takes practice—just like learning to ride a dirt bike.
In Ryder’s Digraph Dirt Track, Ryder, Pepper, and Wheelie help make that practice more exciting by bringing phonics lessons into the world of motocross.
Instead of presenting young readers with page after page of ordinary exercises, the book uses colorful dirt bike scenes and familiar Nelmgerian MX characters to help keep children engaged while they practice important reading skills.
It’s a simple idea:
When kids are interested in the subject, give them something they're excited to read.
For children who love dirt bikes, motocross, Supercross, racing, and anything with two wheels, phonics practice just became a lot more fun.
A digraph is a combination of two letters that work together to represent a sound.
Understanding these letter combinations is an important step as children move from recognizing individual letter sounds toward decoding and reading complete words.
Ryder’s Digraph Dirt Track introduces young readers to:
SH • CH • TH • WH • PH • CK • NG • MB • QU
Each section gives children an opportunity to see the letter combination, learn how to say it, and practice recognizing it in words.
The goal isn't to race through the book as quickly as possible.
Just like motocross, improvement comes from learning, practicing, and building confidence one skill at a time.
Young readers work their way around Ryder’s dirt track while learning important letter combinations.
SH
Children practice recognizing the familiar SH sound in words.
CH
Young readers learn how C and H can work together in words containing the CH sound.
TH
Children are introduced to TH and practice hearing and saying the sounds created by this common letter combination.
WH
Readers explore words beginning with the WH letter combination.
PH
Kids discover how PH can work together to create a sound they may already recognize from other words.
CK
Young readers practice recognizing CK, commonly found together at the end of words.
NG
Children learn to identify the NG letter combination in familiar words.
MB
Readers are introduced to words containing the MB letter combination.
QU
Kids practice recognizing QU and seeing how these letters commonly work together in words.
Together, these lessons help children become more comfortable recognizing letter patterns as they continue developing their reading skills.
Ryder’s Digraph Dirt Track was created to make phonics practice approachable, colorful, and fun.
Inside the book, children will discover:
Parents and children can work through the book together, or developing readers can revisit individual sections as their reading skills improve.
Young Nelmgerian MX readers may already know Ryder, Pepper, and Wheelie from their motocross adventures.
In Ryder’s Digraph Dirt Track, the friends bring that same excitement and positive attitude to learning.
Ryder loves dirt bikes, racing, learning new things, and taking on a challenge.
Pepper brings determination, confidence, and her love of motocross to the adventure.
Wheelie reminds readers that there are different ways to participate, learn, and enjoy the ride.
Together, they help turn a phonics lesson into a dirt track adventure.
The idea for Ryder’s Digraph Dirt Track came from Kylie Carpenter, a fourth-grade teacher and daughter of author Shaun Nelms.
Kylie contributed to the concept of combining digraph instruction with the characters and motocross world of Nelmgerian MX.
That idea became a book designed around something many parents and teachers already understand:
Children can become more interested in learning when educational material connects with something they already love.
For a young dirt bike fan, that might mean bringing reading practice to the motocross track.
Ryder’s Digraph Dirt Track combines Shaun’s Nelmgerian MX characters and stories with Kylie’s educational perspective to create a different kind of learn-to-read book—one built specifically with young motocross fans in mind.
Some children naturally reach for books.
Others would rather be riding a dirt bike.
Ryder’s Digraph Dirt Track was created especially with those young readers in mind.
By combining phonics practice with motocross characters, dirt bikes, and colorful racing scenes, the book gives parents another way to encourage reading without asking children to leave their interests behind.
Instead, their interests become part of the learning experience.
The objective is simple:
Ride. Read. Learn.
And then keep practicing.
Ryder’s Digraph Dirt Track is designed primarily for early readers ages 4–8 who are developing their phonics and word-recognition skills.
The book can be used for:
Every child develops reading skills at a different pace, so parents and educators can use the book in whatever way best supports their young reader.
If your child can tell you their favorite dirt bike, rider, race number, or Supercross racer but isn't nearly as excited when it's time to practice reading, you're not alone.
That's exactly where an interest-based book can help.
Ryder’s Digraph Dirt Track gives young motocross fans an opportunity to encounter reading skills inside a world they recognize and enjoy.
Dirt bikes get their attention.
Ryder, Pepper, and Wheelie make it an adventure.
And every new word gives them another opportunity to build confidence.
Ryder’s Digraph Dirt Track – Level 2: Digraphs is part of the growing collection of Nelmgerian MX children's books and educational resources created for young dirt bike and motocross fans.
Nelmgerian MX combines the excitement of motocross with stories and activities that encourage children to read, learn, practice, build confidence, and believe in themselves.
From children's motocross stories to phonics, math, word searches, mazes, coloring books, and rider-development resources, Nelmgerian MX gives young riders another way to stay connected with the sport they love—even when they're away from the track.
Start your engines and ride into reading success with Ryder, Pepper, and Wheelie!
Author: Shaun Nelms
Educational Contributor: Kylie Carpenter, Fourth-Grade Teacher
Publisher: Nelmgerian MX
Publication Date: March 31, 2026
Language: English
Print Length: 30 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8950309021
ASIN: B0H42H1XQ7
Recommended Ages: 4–8
Book Size: 8.5" × 8.5"
Item Weight: 3.35 oz
Subject: Phonics, Digraphs, Early Reading, Motocross & Dirt Bikes
Digraphs Covered:
SH • CH • TH • WH • PH • CK • NG • MB • QU
Ride. Read. Learn. Grow the Sport.
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