There are five YELLOW level story books which will be available in high street shops and online stores from September 2009. The titles are:-
Funny Bunny
The Yellow Fellows
X Marks the Spot
The Mystery of Noodle Squeeze
Yes You Can!
These stories build on the vocabulary available at the ORANGE level, according to the principles summarized in the MATRIX .
The Yellow level introduces :
i) X as in fox (and written as kisses at the end of a letter)
Y as in yes
Z as in zoo (and zzzzzzzz…. a bee buzzing)
ii) the words ‘you’, ‘your’, yours
iii) y at end of word, doubling consonant (eg funny, runny, silly, happy)
iv) y modifying vowels : ay, ey, oy (eg day, hey, boy)
v) y as a main vowel in first syllable : (eg by, fly, . try , my)
vi) ‘ow’ words rhyming with ‘yo ho ho’ (eg low, blow)
vii) ‘oe’ (eg toes, goes )
viii) plurals and verb forms from words ending in y (eg flies)
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