Description

These six download-and-print readers are suitable for students in Year 1, or slightly older catch-up learners. The sixth book was added in May 2022. The purchaser may print up to thirty copies of each book (i.e. 20c per print ex GST). A printable quiz for each book is included, or you can use the Wordwall quizzes online.

These books can be used alongside the Spelfabet Level 3 teaching sequence, Workbook, word-building sequences and/or these playing cards.

The Set Three readers revise the split digraphs (sometimes called ‘silent final e’, ‘bossy e’ or ‘magic e’), and introduce the single-letter spelling for the long vowel sounds, a, e, i, o, u.

Many of these words derive from the split digraphs, and children learn that when a suffix is added to words like poke, the final e is dropped and the consonant is not doubled, as in pokes, poked, poking, poker, poky.

The spellings are the same as for the short vowel sounds, covered in the Initial Code, so children learn that the same letter can represent more than one sound. The stories also include words with short vowel sounds, so they give children a chance to practice substitution/flexing of sounds represented by the same letter.

Words with the long vowel sounds and the le ending allow children to learn that the consonant before the final le syllable is not doubled as it is after the short vowel sound: compare babble and table.

The Table (418 words)

• a…e, a as in apron
• Jason’s mum is cleaning up an old table, and she tells Jason about the happy times she had when the table was in her gran’s kitchen.

The Best Role for Rosa (558 words)

• o…e, o as in solo
• This is a play in three acts, with a cast of three. Rosa wants only the best role in the school musical, but her brother, Toby, has plans of his own.

Glider Pilot (391 words)

• i…e, i as in pilot
• Simon wants to be a pilot, and when he sees a glider one day, he makes up his mind that that’s the kind of plane he really wants to fly.

The Emu, the Egret, and the Secret (413 words)

• e…e, e as in emu
• Emu wants the other animals to know that his birthday is coming up soon, so he tells Egret about it – hoping that Egret will pass on his secret.

A Very Unusual Musical Instrument (469 words)

• u – e, u as in music
• It’s time for the annual music festival in a Swiss hamlet, but the tuba player refuses to communicate with the trombone player, and the band members have taken sides. Will they find a way of uniting again, so the festival can go ahead?

Not a Tutu (394 words)

• u-e as in rude, u as in tutu
• Lucy’s grandpa always has a surprise gift for her birthday. He takes care to find something she would really like – but this time he gets it wrong.