Short Reads: Short Reads Decodable Texts: Year 1 Phase 5 (Sets 9-13) New by Scholastic Inc. (author)

Boost phonics and develop close reading skills with decodable short texts suitable for Ages 4-6. Each box includes 40 reading cards with six copies of each and a teacher’s guide.

• 100% matched to Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, used in schools across the UK
• Motivate the whole class with snappy, fast reads and high-interest topics
• Develop comprehension skills with close reading
• Build writing skills with ‘Write about Reading’ tasks
• Ideal for group reading sessions and independent reading

Each Teacher’s Guide covers an introduction to phonics with background knowledge including tricky words, and 40 group reading sessions including discussion topics and independent writing tasks.

The Teacher’s Guide contains for each of the reading cards: Overviews for the teacher; before, during and after reading activities; detailed notes for reading the text more than once with a different focus in each reading; comprehension questions; suggestions for discussion and dictation and writing activities.

All of which help develop close reading skills (Close Reading describes the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text. Research links the close reading of text to significant gains in reading).

• Short Reads Decodable Texts: Reception for ages 4-5 covers Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised phonic phases 2 to 4.
• Short Reads Decodable Texts: Year 1 for ages 5-6 covers Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised phonic phase 5.