Boston

This non-fiction title is part of the "Striders Phonics Readers" series, specifically designed to support reluctant and struggling readers aged 7-14 with a reading age of 4-6. It acts as a travel guide to Boston, USA, introducing children to its history, famous landmarks, and culture through accessible language and engaging visuals. The book is fully decodable, focusing on specific phonics sounds (Phase 4 Set 8) while revising earlier sounds, making it an excellent tool for reinforcing classroom teaching or for at-home practice. It includes features like contents and headings, and notes for adults to support the child's reading, ensuring a structured and confidence-building experience.

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 14 This title is a travel guide to Boston, USA. Non-fiction Focus Sounds: Phase 4 Set 8: Adjacent consonants with Phase 3 long vowels Revision Sounds: Phase 2 to Phase 4, Sets 1 to 7 SERIES INFORMATION Striders Phonics Readersare 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)