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Gilt Edge word-level readers

offer teachers texts and instructional guidelines for providing systematic, explicit instruction to develop students' word-level decoding skills and phonics knowledge, vocabulary knowledge, phonemic awareness skills, reading comprehension strategies and reading fluency all the key areas that research has shown to be necessary for the acquisition of accurate, efficient reading skills.

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Word-Level Readers

64 titles from Levels 1-16


This series of early reading books is quite unique in the way it integrates and scaffolds the development of phonics knowledge into the context of real literature.

In-depth teacher support material provides instruction in the 5 key areas
of reading development:

Phonics knowledge, phonemic awareness skills, vocabulary development, reading comprehension and fluency with reading and pronouncing words and sentences.

Level
Special Focus
1 (magenta)
2 (magenta)
recognition of sounds and blending skills decoding of one-letter,
one-sound words and blending skills
3 (red)
recognition of simple digraphs (doubled letters), blending and decoding one-letter, one-sound words
4 (red)
word endings – y, le, er plus the 'k' sound (including the ck digraph)
5 (red)
recognition and pronunciation of ed and ing endings
6 (yellow)
recognition of the short 'oo' sound, the short 'o' after 'w', and the long vowel sounds and some of their spelling patterns
7 (yellow)
recognition of the 'sh', 'qu', 'ng', 'th', 'x', 'ch' sounds and their common spelling patterns
8 (yellow)
recognition of the 'er', 'ar', 'or', 'ow', 'oy', short 'u', short 'e' sounds and their common spelling patterns
9 (blue)
vowel sounds – long and short vowel discrimination long ‘a’, long ‘e’, long ‘i’, long ‘o’ and long ‘u/oo’, short ‘e’ sounds
10 (blue)
‘sh’, ‘ar’, ‘air’, ‘ear’
11 (blue) ‘v’, ‘j’, ‘h’, r’
12 (green)
‘l’, ‘s’, ‘f’, ‘w’
13 (green)
‘k’, ‘x’, ‘z’
14 (green)
‘or’, ‘er’
15 (orange)
‘sh’, ‘zh’
16 (orange) vowel sounds – ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’, ‘u/oo’

 

Click on a title for more details or download Teacher Notes
in either Word (.doc) or Adobe (.pdf) format
Title Level PDF format DOC format
Meg's Sound Hunt 01 Download Download
Tim's Sound Hunt 01 Download Download
A Bug in a Jug 02 Download Download
Pet Day 02 Download Download
Fun in the Mud 03 Download Download
Oh, What a Mess 03 Download Download
A Breakfast Surprise 04 Download Download
Camping with Dad 04 Download Download
Papa Henry 04 Download Download
The Little Kitten 04 Download Download
A Bee for Breakfast 05 Download Download
Beachball Games 05 Download Download
My Hair Cut 05 Download Download
Amy the Snail and The Lucky Escape 06 Download Download
Beans for Dad 06 Download Download
Good Night Baby Bear 06 Download Download
Look In A Book 06 Download Download
Ruby the Tooth Fairy 06 Download Download
Walter and the Wasps 06 Download Download
We Love Winter 06 Download Download
A Fox in a Box 07 Download Download
Dad Makes The Scones 07 Download Download
Mrs Rush-around and Lily's Fish 07 Download Download
Queen Mabs Secret 07 Download Download
The Bunk Pirates 07 Download Download
What Was That? 07 Download Download
Monty Mouse Goes Outside 08 Download Download
My Cat Gertie 08 Download Download
Rory and the Storm 08 Download Download
The Bush Walk 08 Download Download
The Cave Rescue 08 Download Download
The Flying Carpet 08 Download Download
Troy's First Day at School 08 Download Download
Birthday Skates 09
Five Busy Bees 09
Just Right 09
Marooned 09
Mike and the Ice Queen 09
The Greedy Beast Joins the Feast 09
Mum's Birthday Treat 10
Plunk! Dunk! 10
Stormy 10
The Go-Cart Race 10 Download
A Special Event 11 Download
A Visit to Egypt 11 Download
Raspberry Fizz 11
The Real Miss Hooper 11
A Holiday Swap 12
A Lucky Find 12
Kindness 12
Snap! 12
The Pony Express 12
The Barnyard Dance 13
The Bee that Sneezed 13
Cora and the Firestorm 14
Worms, Worms, Worms 14
Grace's Neighbours 15
Market Music 15
Shona and Shay Save the Sea 15 Download
Tree Hut Tricks 15
A Real Treasure 16
Charlie the Sleepy Bee 16
Lime Green Ice Cream 16
Stuart's News 16