The Big Pit

The Big Pit Synopsis

Support children's reading with these engaging high-low fully decodable phonic books. The age-appropriate themes and content will hook the most reluctant and struggling readers.

• Reading Age: 4 to 6
• Interest Age: 7 to 11+

This is the first book about underwater explorers, Jen, Rav, Tess and Max the dog, who have adventures on their mini submarine.

ABOUT UNDERWATER EXPLORERS: A group of underwater explorers have adventures in their mini-sub. The series addresses a number of environmental issues related to the ocean.

• Book 1: Underwater Explorers
• Fiction
• Focus Sounds: Phase 2 Set 3: ff ll ss j v w x y z zz
• Revision Sounds: Phase 2 Sets 1 and 2

SERIES INFORMATION

Striders Phonics Readers are a collection of 32 high-low phonically decodable books for readers aged 7+ with a reading age of 4 to 6. These expertly levelled consolidation readers are perfect for sending home to support classroom teaching, and are exactly matched to Little Wandle Rapid Catch-up with focus sounds following the same progression, and each set of books revising the sounds found in previous sets.

The series of phonically decodable readers includes diverse and inclusive artwork and photography and includes features such as chapters and recurring characters (fiction) and contents and headings (non-fiction) to be more consistent with what their friends and peers are reading.

Each book also contains 'how to use the book' notes to help an adult support the child's reading along with a character page for fiction titles to orient the reader or a contents page for non-fiction titles.

The fiction books are split into four mini-series with reoccurring characters while the non-fiction are stand-alone titles with a summary page at the end to encourage discussion.

Focus sounds found in each Scholastic Set:

• Phase 2 Set 1: s a t p i n m d (used as revision sounds only)
• Phase 2 Set 2: g o c k ck e u r h b f l
• Phase 2 Set 3: ff ll ss j v w x y z zz
• Phase 2 Set 4: qu ch sh th ng nk
• Phase 3 Set 5: ai ee igh oa oo
• Phase 3 Set 6: ar or ur ow oi ear air er
• Phase 4 Set 7: Adjacent consonants with short vowels
• Phase 4 Set 8: Adjacent consonants with Phase 3 long vowels
• Phase 5 Set 9: ay (play), ou (cloud), oy (boy), ea (each), ir (bird), ie (pie), ue (blue), u (unicorn)
• Phase 5 Set 10: o (go), i (tiger), a (paper), e (he), a-e (snake), i-e (time), o-e (home), u-e (cute), e-e (these), ew (new), ie (shield), aw (claw)
• Phase 5 Set 11: y (funny), ea (head), wh (wheel), oe (toe), ou (shoulder), y (fly), ow (snow), g (giant), ph (phone), le (apple), al (metal), c (ice), ve (give), o-e (some), o (mother), ou (young), se (cheese), se (mouse), ce (fence), ey (donkey), ui (fruit), ou (soup)
• Phase 5 Set 12: or (word), u (full), oul (could), are (share), ear (bear), ere (there), au (author), aur (dinosaur), oor (floor), al (walk), tch (match), ture (adventure), al (half), a (father), a (water), a (want), ear (learn), wr (wrist), st (whistle), sc (science), ch (school), ch (chef), ze (freeze), schwa at the end of words (actor)
• Phase 5 Set 13: eigh (eight), aigh (straight), ey (grey), ea (break), gn (gnaw), kn (knee), mb (thumb), ere (here), eer (deer), su (treasure), si (vision), dge (bridge), ge (large), y (crystal), ti (potion), ssi (mission), si (mansion), ci (delicious), augh (daughter), our (pour), oar (oar), ore (more)

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