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Level 1 - Starting Out in The ZooLevel 1 - Starting Out in the Zoo is aimed at 4 - 6 year olds who have little or no reading skills. This is where all children can begin to learn to read. By completing the 40 lessons in the Starting Out set, children will have learnt their first skills – this includes alphabet letters and sounds, reading their first words which are a mixture of high frequency sight words, such as the, I, and, is and see, and phonically decodable three letter words such as cat, fan and Sam. They will also read their first simple stories featuring Sam the ant. Level 1 Details |
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Level 2 - Beginning to Read in The PlaygroundLevel 2 - Beginning to Read in the Playground - builds on skills learnt in Level 1 with a focus on short vowel words such as cat, dog, ten, fish and duck and on building reading skills. Children will learn many more high frequency sight words, build word families and read another 40 books. Some of these books will be nonfiction titles with a focus on building vocabulary in these areas – colours, numbers, facial features such as eyes, nose, mouth and animals as pets. simple sentences, 3 and 4 letter short vowel words, some blends, sight words. Level 2 Details |
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Level 3 - Building Confidence at The BeachLevel 3 - Building Confidence at the Beach - introduces long vowel words such as cake, kite, rain, cook, seat and cute. These new spellings need a lot of reinforcement for children to remember these new phonic sounds and how to write them. There is an increased focus on reading for meaning, comprehension and understanding longer words and sentences as children read 40 new books. Some of these books will be nonfiction titles with a focus on building vocabulary in these areas – days of the week, family members, household items, naming parts of the body, higher numbers, weather and insects. Level 3 Details |
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Level 4 - Reading Fluently in The TreehouseLevel 4 - Reading Fluently in The Treehouse - builds children’s reading stamina and fluency with longer and more challenging texts. Great stories and high quality nonfiction titles sit side by side in this excellent set of 40 new books. These books feature longer sentences, compound and multi-syllable words. There is an increased focus on building content area vocabulary and reading for information with our early science concept books. All this is reinforced with activities that build spelling skills, comprehension and higher order thinking skills. Level 4 Details |
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