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Book 7 of 24 · Set 5

The Bus on the Hill

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

  1. A bright red bus sits on the side of a steep green hill.

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  2. The bus with little puffs of smoke on a steep slope, wheels stuck.

    . , , , !

  3. A boy called Bill and a girl called Meg stand on the hilltop in front of the bus and pull it up with a long rope, the smiling driver waving from the cab.

    . .

  4. The bus at the top of the hill and Bill and Meg hugging each other and cheering.

    ! .

For grown-ups

Every word in this book can be read with the sounds taught up to set 5, plus these tricky words: a, the. 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.