The Big Six Get Artistic (Set 08)

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 11+

This is the second book about a quirky group of monsters - the
Big Six. This time they go to the art fair.

ABOUT THE BIG SIX: This series follows the 'Big Six' a monster
group who cause chaos wherever they go.

• Book 2: The Big Six


• Fiction


• Focus Sounds: Phase 4 Set 8: Adjacent consonants with Phase 3
  long vowels


• Revision Sounds: Phases 2 to 4, Sets 1 to 7

SERIES INFORMATION

Striders Phonics Readers are 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)