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 a quirky group of monsters, the Big
  Six, who decide to get jobs.



  ABOUT THE BIG SIX: This series follows the 'Big Six' a monster
  group who cause chaos wherever they go.






  Book 1: The Big Six

  Fiction

  Focus Sounds: Phase 2 Set 4: qu ch sh th ng nk

  Revision Sounds: Phase 2 Sets 1 to 3





  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)