The Tree That Blinked and Other Stories
The four levels of Jolly Phonics Readers have been designed to give confidence and enjoyment to young readers so that they can develop independent reading skills and gradually move onto more complex texts. With three lively series in each level, the books enable children to practise phonic skills and develop their reading comprehension.
The Tree That Blinked and Other Stories contains six engaging fiction stories and provides text comprehension questions, discussion activities and guidance for parents. The text in the book uses only fully decodable regular words (words that are made up from the 42 letter sounds taught in the first stage of Jolly Phonics) and a small number of ‘tricky’ words (frequently used words that are not fully decodable at this stage). At every stage the words are within the reach of children as they use their letter sound knowledge and tricky words already taught. All the tricky words and letter sounds used in the book are shown on the front inside cover. Light type is used as a guide for any silent letters, such as /b/ in lamb.
Level 3 revises the alternative sound of /y/ used for the /ee/ sound at the end of words like funny and happy, and introduces the ‘hop-over /e/’ spellings of the long vowel sounds
Stories included in the book:
The Tree That Blinked
What’s in the Box?
The Old Red Tractor
The Model Boat
Wait and See!
The Bad-Tempered Goat
Book Contents:
Say the Sounds
Tricky Words
Meet the Characters
Book Review
Character Review
*The Tree That Blinked and Other Stories is a paperback edition of the popular Jolly Phonics Readers, combining stories previously published as six individual titles in the Level 3 Inky & Friends series*