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Electronic version in contextCharacters with kid-cred!

An introduction to some of Bug Club’s best known characters...

TrucktownAngelina Ballerina

CasperBasil BrushWallace & Gromit

Wallace & Gromit and the Snowman-o-tronGreen Level A / Phonic Phase 5Reading Recovery Level 12

Wallace & Gromit and the AutochefGreen Level C / Phonic Phase 5Reading Recovery Level 14

Wallace & Gromit and the SoccamaticGreen Level B / Phonic Phase 5

Reading Recovery Level 13

Books introduce phonemes in the same order as Letters and Sounds to help children decode the books by themselves in line with your synthetic phonics teaching.

Children who’ve enjoyed the fi rst book can move on to another with the same characters.

The fi ne levelling gives children plenty of opportunity to develop their reading skills and master each fi ne step.

We’ve teamed up with some big names like Cartoon Network, Penguin, Aardman and the BBC to create stories with characters that children already know and love – Ben 10, Angelina Ballerina, Wallace and Gromit, Harry and his Bucket of Dinosaurs, Shaun the Sheep and Doctor Who, to name but a few. And, unlike the books you’ll fi nd in bookshops around these characters, the books in Bug Club are fi nely levelled so that children can decode the book by themselves.

Each character has its own mini-series of two, three or four books, with each book going up one reading level. This is to help stretch children who have enjoyed the fi rst book in a series and want to read more of the same. The fi ne levelling and sub-division of the reading bands ensure that the step isn’t too great between each book.

Reading Recovery Level 12

Ben 10 Ben 10 is an action adventure cartoon series known to pretty much every boy the world over! With the aid of a watch-like device from outer space he transforms into a range of alien creatures to fi ght crime.

Shaun the Sheep Shaun the Sheep is a Nick Park creation beloved of CBBC viewers everywhere! Leader of the fl ock, he’s a clever sheep who keeps his head while all about him are losing theirs!

Harry and his Bucketful of Dinosaurs Harry is a 5 year old boy with a magic bucketful of dinosaurs! By jumping in he’s transported to DinoWorld where he has lots of fun with Tawry, Trike, Pterence and the gang.

Sarah Jane Former assistant to ‘The Doctor’, Sarah Jane has her own adventures these days - aided by a team of clever teens and a sonic screwdriver disguised as a lipstick. A huge success in its own right, it was nominated for the British Academy Children’s award in 2008.

Reading Recovery Level 14

Reading Recovery Level 13

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Former assistant to ‘The Doctor’, Sarah Jane has her

Doctor Who...landing

early 2011!

We’ve created lots of fantastic new characters of our own too, such as The Mermaids, The Fang Family and Pete’s Peculiar Pet Shop. Check them out online at

www.bugclub.co.uk

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Teaching SupportCombining all these exciting characters with rigorous pedagogy, the latest phonics guidance, fantastic design and cutting edge technology, Bug Club provides the whole solution to teaching children to read in the 21st century.

As you would expect from a whole-school reading programme, all of the books and eBooks in Bug Club are backed up with comprehensive planning and assessment support to save you hours of planning and preparation time.

A Planning and Assessment Guide is available for each Year to help you build up an accurate picture of where each child is in their learning and to reveal any gaps so that planning can be informed and next steps easily identifi ed. They include:

• information about the fi ne levelling and pedagogy

• levelling guidance sheets

• running records

• phonic assessment worksheets

• photocopy masters for each book thatinclude pupil self-assessment

• detailed information about the onlineassessment reporting

of where each child is in their learning and to reveal any gaps so that planning can be informed and next

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Name: Date:

Story: RW = 100

Reading Bug

Bug Club running record

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Reading Symbols

No errors Miscues/errors

3 = correct T = told word

SC = self-corrected O = omitted word

^ = inserted word

Write any incorrect word over target word.

Miscue total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Accuracy rate 99% 98% 97% 96% 95% 94% 93% 92% 91% 90% 89% 88% 87% 86% 85%

Accuracy Rate =

The accuracy rate indicates how well the pupil uses a range of strategies, including accurate decoding of text,

to read. Use the accuracy rate as evidence towards AF1.

Next steps: Refer to the guided reading card for Beetle Cookies for other questions and follow-up activities in

order to gather evidence for other AFs.

Find the number of miscues in the top row of this table to find the corresponding accuracy rate in the bottom row.

Miscues total:

Page Story text to record pupil’s reading Strategies used

Yellow Level

Reading Strategies

Ph = phonic

G = graphic

S = syntactic

C = contextual

95% or greater = comfortable level for independent reading. 94% or below = frustration level for independent reading.

Beetle Cookies

4 Dan had big bugs and little bugs. He had bugs in his

room.

5 He had bugs in the garden.

6 Dan saw a big bug.

7 He looked in his bug book. It was a beetle!

8 Mum looked at the beetle.

9 “Can I have a tin to put him in?” said Dan.

10 “Put him in this cookie tin,” said Mum. “Thank you,”

said Dan.

11 Emma saw the tin. “Cookies!” said Emma. “No,” said

Dan. “There are no cookies in this tin!”

13 But Emma took the lid off the tin.

14 “Yuck, a bug!” said Emma. She ran off.

15 “He is not a cookie [but he is sweet,” said Dan.]

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Name:

Story:

Reading Symbols

No errors

3 = correct

SC = self-corrected

Miscue total

Accuracy rate

Accuracy RateThe accuracy rate indicates how well the pupil uses a range of strategies, including accurate decoding of text,

to read. Use the accuracy rate as evidence towards

Next stepsorder to gather evidence for other AFs.

Find the number of miscues in the top row of this table to find the corresponding accuracy rate in the bottom row.

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95% or greater = comfortable level for independent reading. 94% or below = frustration level for independent reading.

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• information about the fi ne levelling and pedagogy

Now read the books!You don’t have to take our word for it that kids will love these books – ask your class what they

think! Once you’ve received your login details via email and activated your trial you’ll have unlimited access to these and all the other fabulous Bug Club eBooks for three months.

www.bugclub.co.uk

A Guided Reading Card for every book gives you detailed support for a session or series of sessions and enables you to collect evidence for Assessing Pupils’ Progress (APP).

Bug Club books have been scrutinised by Book Bands for Guided Reading authors and Reading Recovery professionals, Shirley Bickler and Suzanne Baker, so that you can feel confi dent when using the books for guided reading. The Guided Reading Cards help you to get the most out of your guided reading sessions as they home in on one Assessment Focus for Reading, Speaking and Listening, and Writing so that you can collect focused evidence for APP.

And don’t forget that each book comes with parent notes to extend teaching into the home.

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