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 award-winning author Louise Park and illustrated by Jules Faber (WeirDo series illustrator), these books are packed with exciting detective adventures and hilarious characters in a wacky new world, which children will LOVE to read with words they CAN read.
Phonemes and graphemes: sh ch tch th ng ph wh.
Book 1 (fiction) – Dish Dash
Book 2 (fiction) – Big Match for The Champs
Book 3 (fiction) – Cam’s Birthday Shock
Book 4 (nonfiction) – Sing Happy Birthday
Book 5 (nonfiction) – Whiz and Spin
In Stage 6, children practise reading and spelling more multisyllabic words, as well as a range of consonant digraphs and the trigraph tch.
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.





