Striders Phonics Readers

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 age-appropriate themes, artwork and photographs will appeal to the most reluctant readers while subtle cover design will help readers feel like they are reading a general fiction or non-fiction book and won’t make them stand out from their peers.

• 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 long vowels
  • Sets 9 to 13 cover the Phase 5 sounds.