No Road Back: Phase 3 Set 1 (Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised – Age 7+)

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Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Tr.

Now including 84 new books, finely levelled for blending practice and stretch and challenge, plus 50 new books for ages 7+. I’d agree with Biff, Chip and Kipper era books just being less words, some of the words in even the easiest bands of these books aren’t easy at all!

At Wooburn Green Primary School, it is our aim that every child will learn to read, no matter what barriers they may have to their learning. The 7+ books in the Big Cat Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised series are designed for children aged 7+ who need more practice to acquire phonics skills. To meet the demands of the new programme we have invested heavily as a school in the matching Harper Collins reading books for both the main Little Wandle programme and the Rapid Catch Up programme for ages 7+.

com/2014/06/09/teaching-your-child-to-read-book-bands-reading-schemes-and-early-readers/ quite helpful in showing how big the range can be.At Wooburn Green Primary School we teach phonics through the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds revised, which is a systematic and synthetic phonics programme. The Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised programme begins in the earliest years with the Foundations for Phonics programme, which we deliver to our Pre-School children. It maps the Little Wandle books to the old reading bands which gave me some assurance all is going ok. Children will develop comprehension of what they are reading by learning about and practicing reading appropriate parts of the text with expression. Interestingly, we’ve just had a book home that is “not decodable at any point using Little Wandle” according to this spreadsheet, but the book is branded as Phase 4 Little Wandle!