Description

The first two of these six download-and-print Phonics With Feeling readers revisit spellings for the ‘r-controlled’ vowel sounds /or/ and /ur/, and introduce the remaining spellings for those sounds. Book 3 introduces ‘r’ as in our, fire, and pure. Books 4 to 6 introduce extra spellings for the ‘short’ vowel sounds /o/, /u/, and /i/.

These books are suitable for students in late Year 1 or Year 2, or slightly older catch-up learners. The purchaser may print up to thirty copies of each book (i.e. 20c per print ex GST). A printable quiz about each book is included, or you can use the online Wordwall quiz. They can be used with any sound-to-print phonics teaching sequence which is introducing multiple spellings for each vowel sound. The books also match phonics playing cards available here and here.

The Set Ten readers introduce new spellings for vowel sounds introduced in previous sets:

• Revising a as in all, or as in for, ore as in more, aw as in saw; introducing au as in cause, augh as in caught, ar as in war, our as in four, oor as in door, ough as in bought, oar as in board, al as in walk.
  
• Revising ur as in turn, er as in her, ir as in bird; introducing ear as in search, or as in word, our as in courtesy.
  
• Introducing r as in our, fire, and pure.
• Introducing the a as in want, au as in vault and ou as in trough spellings for the ‘short’ /o/ sound.
• Revising u as in cup, o as in mother, and introducing the ou as in country and oo as in blood spellings for the ‘short’ /u/ sound.
  
• Introducing the y as in cygnet spelling for the ‘short’ /i/ sound.
  

The books are:

Audrey’s Story (421 words)

• a, or, ore, aw, au, augh, ar, our, oor, ough, oar, al
• Audrey’s dad wants her to flaunt her fancy clothes, but she tries to be cool like a boy in her school.

10.2      Earthworms (490 words)

• ur, er, ir, ear, or, our
• Kirsty teaches her mum and her brother Fergus all about earthworms.

Albie’s Blue (408 words)

• r as in our, fire, pure.
• Albie longs to find a blue flower that he sees in a dream.

Walter Wouldn’t Wash (310 words)

• o, a, au, ou
  
• Walter is afraid of water, until he learns, by accident, that there is nothing to fear.

Dozens of Cousins (243 words)

• u, o, ou, oo
• Douglas has dozens of cousins, some of whom are well-behaved, and others who get up to mischief.

y as in cygnet (990 words)

• y sounds like ‘short’ /i/ (usually words from Ancient Greek)
  
• This book gives definitions of fourteen words in which the short i sound is spelled with y.