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Book 8 of 24 · Set 6

Jim and Viv

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

  1. A boy called Jim and a girl called Viv climb into a small yellow van.

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  2. Jim carrying a big jug of red jam and Viv holding a cardboard box in the van.

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  3. Jim sitting in a puddle of spilled jam, laughing, jam on his hands and knees.

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  4. A little orange fox peeping out of the box licking jam from its whiskers, Jim and Viv amazed.

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For grown-ups

Every word in this book can be read with the sounds taught up to set 6, plus these tricky words: a, of, 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.