Publisher's Synopsis
This title is part of a series that includes phonically decodable diverse and inclusive stories and topics, accompanied by age appropriate contemporary photographs and humorous illustrations that will engage and inspire striving readers.
This is the first book about underwater explorers, Jen, Rav, Tess and Max the dog, who have adventures on their mini submarine.
ABOUT UNDERWATER EXPLORERS: A group of underwater explorers have adventures in their mini-sub. The series addresses a number of environmental issues related to the ocean.
- Book 1: Underwater Explorers
- Fiction
- Focus Sounds: Phase 2 Set 3: ff ll ss j v w x y z zz
- Revision Sounds: Phase 2 Sets 1 and 2
SERIES INFORMATION
Scholastic Phonics Catch-up Readers are a brand-new collection of 32 phonically decodable reading books for ages 7 to 14. These expertly levelled consolidation readers are for use at home to support classroom teaching, and are exactly matched to Little Wandle Letters & Sounds Revised 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 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)