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
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Fully decodable, and follows the tried-and-tested Little Learners Love Literacy® teaching sequence to ensure children achieve success
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Combines fiction and nonfiction titles, linked by topic and featuring the hilarious Wild Detective characters throughout
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Extends children’s knowledge of Tier 2 vocabulary across different contexts, with vocabulary worksheets for every book
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A bank of support material including Small Group Reading Teacher Notes and free downloadable worksheets
