Get Reading with Phonics: Bounder to the Rescue & Other Stories by Catherine Baker (author), Suzy Ditchburn (author), Teresa Heapy (author), Alice Hemming (author), and Ann Hill (author)

A collection of decodable stories perfect for very early readers.

Share this collection of 5 stories with your child. Designed to match your child’s reading (phonics) skills from school and help them to put their learning into practice at home. Ideal for children starting to read to help them gain confidence.

Each story has handy parent notes at the beginning to help you support your child to read. This includes practising the focus sounds, highlighting any tricky words they may need assistance with and advice on what to do before, during and after reading.

Have fun trying to find the hidden characters throughout and retell each tale at the end using the picture prompts provided.

These expertly levelled stories are engaging and follow one of the most commonly used phonics programmes in primary schools.

Scholastic considers these books suitable for children learning using the Wandle Learning Trust’s Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised phonics programme. Scholastic is not part of Wandle Learning Trust, nor are our products approved for use with the Little Wandle Letters & Sounds Revised phonics programme by the Wandle Learning Trust.

Bounder to the Rescue and Other Stories contains the following five books in one with phonic phase 5 sounds:

Bounder to the Rescue Focus: New spellings for known sounds

The Monster Cake-eater Focus: New spellings for known sounds

Delivery! Focus: New spellings for known sounds

The World’s Worst Dancer Focus: New spellings for known sounds

Billy’s Magic Trick Focus: New spellings for known sounds

Also Available:

This is Such Fun! and Other Stories (Phonic Phase 2)

Rabbit Run and Other Stories (Phonic Phases 3 and 4).

(Please note that the stories in these collections can also be found as individual books in the Scholastic Book Bag Readers fiction series.)