In this pack:

Ten decodable phonics titles (1 of each in this pack) written as paired texts to practise the letter sounds:

Sounds (phonemes): long /ā/  /ē/  /ī/  /ō/ and /y-ōō/ vowel sounds

Letters (graphemes): ai, ay, ee, ea, y, igh, oa, ow, a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

About the titles in the pack:

The 10 books in Unit 5 are paired texts, one informative and one fiction.

Tails 

Tails is about how some animals use their tails to help them get food.

Letters/Phonic focus:

Sound (phoneme) long /ā/ vowel sound

Letters (graphemes) ai, ay

Mee Mee's Tail 

Mee Mee the monkey is not happy with her tail. She switches tails with lots of animals until she realises that her tail is the best one after all.

Letters/Phonic focus 

Sound (phoneme) long /ē/ vowel sound

Letters (graphemes) ee, ea

This Sunny Day 

This Sunny Day describes what various animals do each day when the sun rises.

Letters/Phonic focus

Sound (phoneme) long /ē/ vowel sound

Letter (grapheme) y

Night Is Coming

Night is coming, and the mother animals are persuading their young to go to sleep. However, there is one mother who needs to wake her young.

Letters/Phonic focus:

Sound (phoneme) long / ī/ vowel sound

Letters (graphemes) igh, y

Tugboats

Tugboats is about how small tugboats guide big ships into and out of the docks.

Letters/Phonic focus

Sound (phoneme) long /ō/ vowel sound

Letters (graphemes) oa, ow

The Brave Tugboats

Three little old tugboats find out that if they work as a team, they are not too little or too old to help big ships.

Letters/Phonic focus:

Sound (phoneme) long /ā/ vowel sound

Letters (grapheme) a _e

The Skate Club

The Skate Club is about an inline skating club. It outlines the activities that the club’s members participate in, how to keep safe and how to look after skating equipment.

Letters/Phonic focus

Sound (phoneme) long / ī/ vowel sound

Letters (grapheme) i_e

Elly and Hope Get Fit

In this comical story, an elephant goes to skating school to learn how to skate.

Letters/Phonic focus: 

Sound (phoneme) long /ō/ vowel sound

Letters (grapheme) o_e

Rides for All

All the children like to go on rides at the fun park. Each child explains their reasons for liking their favourite ride.

Letters/Phonic focus: 

Sound (phoneme) long /y-ōō/ vowel sound

Letters (grapheme) u_e

What an Excuse!

In this book, a family visits a fun park, but they have trouble finding a ride that everyone will like.

Letters/Phonic focus: 

This book contains words with the letter–sound correspondences taught throughout Unit Five.