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Book 6 of 24 · Set 5

The Big Hen

Read the book. Tap a word to hear it. Tap Show sounds to see the sounds in each word.

  1. A big round brown hen sits on a mossy log in soft morning fog.

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  2. A little green bug on the hen's back, the hen tumbling off the log with feathers flying.

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  3. The hen puffing as she runs up a gentle green hill, wings out.

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  4. The bug peeking out of a small cloth bag while the hen naps in the sun on the hill.

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For grown-ups

Every word in this book can be read with the sounds taught up to set 5, plus these tricky words: the, a, to. Let your child sound out and blend each word, and read the whole page again for fluency. Tap Show sounds to see dots under single-letter sounds and bars under sounds written with more than one letter.

Talk about it: what happened on each page? What do you think happens next?

Follow your own programme. This order follows the general Letters and Sounds phase order (GOV.UK, 2007, now historical). Schools in England choose their own phonics programme. The DfE publishes a list of validated programmes (there is no legal requirement to use one), and each programme orders the sounds a little differently. If your school has one, practise in its order and use these pages for extra listening and reading.