Fox Kid | Fast-paced, funny, fox-tastic decodable chapter books!
Fox Kid is a new series of decodable chapter books and supporting practise resources specifically designed for struggling readers, including those who’ve ‘missed the boat’ in the early years of school. Raise engagement and motivation through success by using decodable text, with low word counts that are at the right level. Enabling children to master the application of phonic knowledge for word reading, building reading fluency and confidence.
Dan is an ordinary kid – he hangs with his big sister Mac, he raises his eyebrow A LOT, and is obsessed with basketball. But when a fox wees in a bin in Dan’s backyard, something strange happens … Dan accidentally walks in the mess and is lit up by a chemical reaction! He becomes Fox Kid – part kid, part fox! He can do mega-yaps, has super sniffing skills, and can send out bugs. Dan must learn how to be fox-tastic by balancing his new powers, fame (and ego!), with his love of basketball and his superhero responsibilities so he can take care of his hometown, Velvet Hills. Along the way, he assembles a crack team of heroes, but will they be enough to defeat the biggest baddies yet – the Skull Twins?
An evidence-based approach
Evidence-based literacy research stresses the importance of explicit and sequential literacy teaching from the beginning. Little Learners Love Literacy® is a systematic and engaging program. Without explicit phonics instruction 60% of children are vulnerable to falling behind in reading. Decodable books allow all children to master the application of phonic knowledge to read words, build fluency and confidence.
Raising reading engagement and motivation
Fox Kid chapter books are hilarious age-appropriate decodable stories that look comparable to children’s chapter books available in bookstores and libraries. These are decodable chapter books struggling readers will LOVE to read with words they CAN read!
A tried and Tested phonics sequence
Developed by decodable book experts Little Learners Love Literacy, following their explicit and cumulative phonics scope and sequence.
Written and illustrated by Australian children’s author, Adrian Beck.
Adrian Beck writes funny, action-packed stories for kids including the Furball series, the Derek Dool series and the Little Legends series with Nicole Hayes. Adrian has also written the much-loved picture books Stop The Dad Jokes! and Bears in Flares. Adrian is passionate about fostering a love of reading amongst the next generation and lives with his small football-loving family in Melbourne. Adrian wanted to create a series that everyone could enjoy no matter how they approach reading or if they find reading challenging at times.
