Striders Phonics Readers: Striders Phonic Readers Collection 1 New by Giles Clare (author), Jilly Hunt (author), Sasha Morton (author), Abbie Rushton (author), and Jonny Walker (author)

This collection contains titles from Striders Phonics Readers, a series of high-low phonically decodable books for readers aged 7+ with a reading age of 4 to 6. The age-appropriate themes and content will hook the most reluctant and struggling readers.

Titles in this collection: Bat; Bok the Bug; In the Net; Run!; The Big Pit; Up and Off!; Pink!; The Big Six Get Jobs; Top Tips: Be Fit and Well.

• Collection 1 contains the 10 titles from Sets 2-4.
• 6 non-fiction titles
• 4 fiction titles.

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 follow one of the most commonly used validated SSPs in primary schools, with focus sounds following the same progression, and each set of books revising the sounds found in previous sets.

Scholastic considers these books suitable for children learning using the Wandle Learning Trust’s Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised phonics programme. Scholastic is not part of Wandle Learning Trust, nor are our products approved for use with the Little Wandle Letters & Sounds Revised phonics programme by the Wandle Learning Trust.

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.

• ABOUT CAL & KIM: The mini-series follows Cal and Kim, a space delivery team as they deliver parcels and post to different planets and encounter the strange, often scary, creatures who live there.
• ABOUT NICK & BOK: Nick finds and takes home an unusual bug, ‘Bok’. The mini-series follows ‘Bok’ who likes to escape his box, ultimately ending in his release into the woods.
• ABOUT THE BIG SIX: This mini-series follows the ‘Big Six’ a monster group who cause chaos wherever they go.
• ABOUT UNDERWATER EXPLORERS: A group of underwater explorers have adventures in their mini-sub. The mini-series addresses a number of environmental issues related to the ocean.

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)