The Elephant’s Child: Phonics Phase 5

The elephant’s child has always been curious - but will asking about crocodiles get him into more trouble than ever before? Find out in this low-level phonics reader that retells Rudyard Kipling’s famous story of how elephants acquired their trunks.

Part of Reading Stars Phonics - our structured programme of 133 fully decodable phonics readers to support the teaching of phonics using the UK Government’s Letters and Sounds programme - The Elephant’s Child is a Phase 5 ‘Spellings’ book.

It introduces alternative spellings for the following phonemes, following Letters and Sounds Phase 5:

/or/ /(y)oo/

As well as being available to buy individually, this title appears in the following discounted Reading Stars Phonics (RSP) Packs:

Phase 5 Spellings Pack - one of every Phase 5 Spellings title Phase 5 Spellings-Pack - six of every Phase 5 Spellings title Complete Phase 5 Pack - one of every Phase 5 title Complete Phase 5 6-Pack - six of every Phase 5 title Complete RSP Pack (Phases 2-5) - one of every RSP title (Phases 2-5) Complete RSP 6-Pack (Phases 2-5) - six of every RSP title (Phases 2-5) Complete RSP Pack (Phases 1-5) - one of every RSP title (Phases 1-5) Complete RSP 6-Pack (Phases 1-5) - six of every RSP title (Phases 1-5)

For more information on how our Reading Stars Phonics packs work, head here.

For more information on the programme itself, head to our dedicated Reading Stars Phonics section.