Striders Phonics Readers: The Carved Rock Garden (Set 07) by Zoe Clarke (author)

Support children’s reading with these engaging high-low fully
decodable phonic books. The age-appropriate themes and content will
hook the most reluctant and struggling readers.

Reading Age: 4 to 6

Interest Age: 7 to 14

This is the second book of adventures with the underwater explorers.
This time they investigate when something strange appears
on the map.

ABOUTUNDERWATEREXPLORERS: A group of underwater explorers have
adventures in their mini-sub. The series addresses a number of
environmental issues related to the ocean.

Book 2: Underwater Explorers

Fiction

Focus Sounds: Phase 4 Set 7: Adjacent consonants with short vowels

Revision Sounds: Phases 2 and 3, Sets 1 to 6

SERIES INFORMATION

Striders Phonics Readers are a collection of 32 high-low
phonically decodable books for readers aged 7+ with
a reading age of 4 to 6. These expertly levelled consolidation
readers are perfect for sending home to support classroom teaching,
and follow one of the most commonly used validated SSPs in primary
schools, with focus sounds following the same progression,
and each set of books revising the sounds found in previous sets.

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.

The series of phonically decodable readers includes diverse and
inclusive artwork and photography and includes features such
as chapters and recurring characters (fiction) and contents and
headings (non-fiction) to be more consistent with what their
friends and peers are reading.

Each book also contains ‘how to use the book’ notes to
help an adult support the child’s reading along with a character
page for fiction titles to orient the reader or a contents
page for non-fiction titles.

The fiction books are split into four mini-series with reoccurring
characters while the non-fiction are stand-alone titles
with a summary page at the end to encourage discussion.

Focus sounds found in each Scholastic Set:

Phase
2 Set 1: s a t p i n m d (used as revision sounds only)

Phase 2 Set 2: g o c k ck e u r h b f l

Phase 2 Set 3: ff ll ss j v w x y z zz
Phase
2 Set 4: qu ch sh th ng nk
Phase 3 Set 5:
ai ee igh oa oo
Phase 3 Set 6: ar or ur ow oi ear
air er
Phase 4 Set 7: Adjacent consonants with
short vowels
Phase 4 Set 8: Adjacent consonants with
Phase 3 long vowels
Phase 5 Set 9: ay (play),
ou (cloud), oy (boy), ea (each), ir (bird), ie (pie), ue (blue),
u (unicorn)
Phase 5 Set 10: o (go), i (tiger), a
(paper), e (he), a-e (snake), i-e (time), o-e (home), u-e (cute),
e-e (these), ew (new), ie (shield), aw (claw)
Phase
5 Set 11: y (funny), ea (head), wh (wheel), oe (toe), ou (shoulder),
y (fly), ow (snow), g (giant), ph (phone), le (apple), al
(metal), c (ice), ve (give), o-e (some), o (mother), ou (young),
se (cheese), se (mouse), ce (fence), ey (donkey), ui (fruit), ou
(soup)
Phase 5 Set 12: or (word), u (full), oul
(could), are (share), ear (bear), ere (there), au (author), aur
(dinosaur), oor (floor), al (walk), tch (match), ture (adventure),
al (half), a (father), a (water), a (want), ear (learn), wr (wrist),
st (whistle), sc (science), ch (school), ch (chef), ze (freeze),
schwa at the end of words (actor)
Phase 5 Set 13:
eigh (eight), aigh (straight), ey (grey), ea (break), gn (gnaw),
kn (knee), mb (thumb), ere (here), eer (deer), su (treasure),
si (vision), dge (bridge), ge (large), y (crystal), ti (potion),
ssi (mission), si (mansion), ci (delicious), augh (daughter),
our (pour), oar (oar), ore (more)