Description
Learn to read and read to learn with Wild Detectives
Wild Detectives is a playful series of adventure-packed stories and informative nonfiction books. Following an explicit and cumulative phonics sequence, these books explore the world of a group of furry detective friends.
Written by the award-winning author Louise Park and illustrated by the famous Jules Faber (WeirDo series illustrator), these books are packed with exciting detective adventures and hilarious characters in a whacky new world, which children will LOVE to read with words they CAN read.
Phonemes and graphemes: ck and adjacent consonants; Morphology: suffix -ed.
Book 1 (fiction) – Stunt Comp Day
Book 2 (fiction) – Big Hunt at Camp Grand
Book 3 (fiction) – Sand Bliss Bust
Book 4 (nonfiction) – Get Set to Trek
Book 5 (nonfiction) -– A Look at Skin
In Stage 5, children practise the skills of blending adjacent consonants at the start and the end of words, as well as apply new knowledge: ck (two letters making one sound). They also practise adding the suffix -ed (/e/d/ only) to verbs for reading and spelling.
KEY FEATURES
Fully decodable, and follows the tried-and-tested Little Learners Love Literacy® teaching sequence to ensure children achieve success.
Combines fiction and nonfiction titles, linked by topic and featuring the hilarious Wild Detective characters throughout.
Includes ‘Read to me’ books that students can bring home on the first day of school, to be read by an adult.
Extends children’s knowledge of Tier 2 vocabulary across different contexts, with vocabulary worksheets for every book.
A bank of support material including Small Group Reading Teacher Notes and free downloadable worksheets.
