GeneralFictio n Arion and the Dolphins
The King lived in a big palace. He loved music, and he invited lots of singers and people who could play different instruments to come and live at the palace with him. He held lots of concerts, and he was always ready to have a party, and join in with the singing himself.
The King had been told that a man called Arion was the best harp player in Greece. So he invited Arion to his palace to play for him. Everyone was very excited that such a well known person was going to visit the city of Corinth and that they would be able to hear him play the harp.
At the contest, everyone loved Arion and his music. They sang and clapped along, and he did indeed win many prizes. Arion loved the fame and fortune that winning the contest gave him. Everyone wanted to listen to him play.
When the contest was over, Arion needed several sailors to help carry his prizes onto the ship to go back to Corinth. The sailors looked at each other as they carried all of the things down into the hold, where cargo is stored.
“That’s a lot of gold, silver and jewels,” they said to each other. “We would be very rich if we owned all that!”
Arion pleaded with the sailors to be able to sing one more song and play his harp one more time. The sailors agreed, so Arion stood up and looked out to sea. He sang, played his harp, and requested that the gods be kind to him and save him.
When he had finished, he jumped off the ship and into the sea below. The ship sailed on and left poor Arion bobbing alone in the waves. Luckily, a pod of dolphins had been swimming by the ship and had listened to his lovely music.
The dolphins swam up to Arion.
“Help me!” he called to them. They swam around him and allowed him to ride on their backs, holding onto their fins. They took him back to the island of Corinth where he landed safely on a beach. From there, he made his way back to the royal palace and the King.
Jolly Phonics Readers
These readers have been written with a carefully controlled vocabulary, and are specifically designed for children who are learning to read and write with Jolly Phonics.
• The text in these Purple Level Books (fifth level) uses only decodable regular words that use the letter-sound knowledge taught so far: the 42 main letter sounds and the main alternative letter-sound spellings (‹y› as in happy, the hop-over ‹e› spellings of the long vowel sounds, ‹ay› as in day, ‹ea› as in seat, ‹y› and ‹igh› as in fly and high, ‹ow› as in low and now, ‹ew› as in few, ‹oy› as in joy, ‹ir› and ‹ur› as in bird and turn, ‹al›, ‹au› and ‹aw› as in talk, pause and saw, soft ‹c› and soft ‹g› as in cent and gene, ‹ph› as in phonics, and ‹air›, ‹ear› and ‹are› as in hair, pear and care), and a small number of tricky words (frequently used words that are not fully decodable at this stage). In this level, children are also expected to know and use the rule, ‘If the short vowel doesn’t work, try the long vowel.’
• All new tricky words and alternative vowel spellings used are shown on the front inside cover. These can be used as a quick practice activity before starting the book.
• Faint type is used for silent letters, like the ‹b› in lamb.
• Comprehension questions and discussion topics are included at the end of the book. These ensure that children are able to read the text and also get meaning from it.
Purple Level Readers
Inky Mouse & Friends General Fiction
The Circus
The Steam Fair
Gingerbread
The Scarecrow Festival
The Accident
Hedgehog Help
Nonfiction
The Hare and the Tortoise Goldilocks and The Three Bears Assembly
The Enormous Turnip Rumpelstiltskin
Puppets
Bears
Dolphins
Ada Lovelace
Many More Monsters
Little Red Riding Hood Monster
Arion and the Dolphins
The Pumpkin Party
Martha Ricks
The Amazon
Hairy Monsters
Town Mouse and Country Mouse
Centipedes and Millipedes
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