This Is Such Fun! and Other Stories
This Is Such Fun! and Other Stories by Helen Betts is a collection of decodable stories designed for very early readers. Published by Scholastic on February 13, 2025, this edition contains 112 pages and is presented in English. The book features eight engaging stories that align with phonics skills taught in schools, making it an ideal resource for children beginning their reading journey.
Readers will find that each story includes helpful parent notes to support their child’s reading development. These notes cover focus sounds, tricky words, and provide guidance for activities before, during, and after reading. The collection encourages interaction through hidden character searches and picture prompts for retelling each tale. This book is suitable for children learning with phonics programs, specifically targeting concepts in language arts.
Official synopsis Publisher
A collection of decodable stories perfect for very early readers.
Share this collection of 8 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.
This is Such Fun! and Other Storiescontains the following eight books in one with phonic phase 2 sounds
- Tip TapFocus: s a t p i n
- Tam In a PitFocus: a t p i n m d
- Dig It UpFocus: g o c e u f
- Ken the KidFocus: g o c k ck e u r h l
- Lin the VetFocus: ll v w x y
- A Big BugFocus: ff ll w z zz
- This is Such Fun!Focus: ch sh th nk
- Hush!Focus: qu sh ng
Also Available: Rabbit Run and Other Stories(Phonic Phases 3 & 4), and Bounder to the Rescue and Other Stories(Phonic Phase 5).
(Please note that the stories in these collections can also be found as individual books in the Scholastic Book Bag Readersfiction series.)
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