Code Detective Book T2 Level 2

Written by Janet Sherlock exclusively for Leaders are Readers.
Written by Janet Sherlock exclusively
for Leaders are Readers
Dedicated to the memory of Roger Sherlock,
a devoted father and husband.
Intermediate Level 2
Please refer to the week’s Homework Timetable for the pages appropriate for
your child’s current level of knowledge.
For use only by a child enrolled on the Leaders are Readers programme.
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Please stick in box below a photograph of your child or cut out and
stick a picture of a person, animal or object from an old magazine.
Then read out the following to your child. Please use your own words if you prefer.
Here is a picture.
Who (or what)
does it represent?
Just like this picture represents you [or name the person, object
or animal], letters are pictures representing the sounds we
speak. Letters are pictures of sounds - they are sound pictures.
i

Read out the following to your child. Please use your own words if you prefer.
Letters are pictures representing the sounds we speak. Letters
are pictures of sounds - they are sound pictures.
Here is a picture for a sound.
Code Detective: Do
you know the sound
this picture represents?
If you do, shout it
out loud!
C
Code Detective: Look at the sound pictures in this book. Can you work out
which sounds they represent?
ii

c a t
1

ck
ck
ck
2

t a p
3

Tip-top!
4

f a t
5

ff
ff
ff
6

s a t
7

ss
ss
ou se se
8

C(e)
C(i)
C(y)
ce
ce
9

Good work!
10

m o p
11

mm
mm
er
mm
12

t o p
13

tt
tt
tt
14

c o t
15

tch
(w)a
qu
(qu)a
qu
sh
16

p o t
p o p
17

pp
pp
pp
18

a g
19

gg
gg
le
le
gg
20

u g
21

Exactly right!
22

p i n
23

th
dd
24

a t
25

bb
er
ed
bb
26

j u g
27

Thumbs up!
28

d i g
29

dd
dd
le
er
dd
30

a t
31

rr
rr
wr
wr
wr
rh th rh
32

h a t
33

That's awesome!
34

w e b
35

wh
wh
wh
36

z i p
wh
37

zz
zz
ze
ze
se
38

e
gg
39

Top-notch!
40

m a n
41

nn
nn
er
nn
kn
kn
ee
kn
gn
gn
gn
42

v a n
43

er
ve
ve
ve
44

l i p s
ck
45

ll
ll
ll
pp
le
le
le
el
el
el
46

f o x
47

Hats off!
48

Talk to your child as follows. Please use your own words if you prefer.
What is this?
1
But this is?
12
What is this?
2
What is this?
t
But this is?
th
What is this?
h
Some sounds are represented with one letter and others are represented
with two or more letters.
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Read out the following to your child. Please use your own words if you prefer.
Code Detective: can you spot the sounds
on the next four pages which
are represented by two letters?
Which sounds are they?
Show all the different sounds on a piece of paper.
Then see if your Mum or Dad knows the answer!
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qu ee n
qu
ck
qu
qu
51

th i n
th ck th
th
52

f ea th er
th
th
th
53

f i sh
sh
sh
sh
54

Please read out the following to your child. Use your own words if you prefer.
Look at these two different pictures.
What does this picture
represent?
What does this different
picture represent?
Child would expectedly say each time, ‘A cat!’
So you see, two different pictures can represent the same thing.
The sound picture below
represents ‘ch’.
ch
This different sound picture
also represents ‘ch’.
tch
Sometimes different sound pictures represent the same sound.
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Read out the following to your child. Please use your own words if you prefer.
Code Detective: can you spot the different sound pictures
on the next page which all show the same sound?
Which sound is it?
How many ways can the sound be shown?
Show all the different ways on a piece of paper.
Then see if your Mum or Dad knows the answer!
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ch i ck
ch
ch
ch
57

tch
tch
tch
58

oa t
oa
oa
oa
ow
ow
ow
59

oe
oe
oe
o
o
e
e
o-e
60

ough
ough
ough
61

Read out the following to your child. Please use your own words if you prefer.
The sound pictures in the left column represent different sounds. Each sound
picture has an “e” [egg] in it. The sound pictures can be cut in some words.
When the sound picture is cut, you have to hop-over the sound in the middle
to complete reading the sound picture, before you read the sound in the middle.
ae
ee
ie
oe
ue
62

a
a
e
e
a-e
e
e
e
e
e-e
e
e
i-e
63

o
o
e
e
o-e
u
u
e
e
u-e
64

c
ow
ow
ow
ow
ou
ou
ou
65

ough
t
ough
l
ough
66

g ir l
sh
ir
ir
ir
er
er
er
67

ur
ur
ur
ear
ear
ear
or
re
(w)or
re
68

f ee t
ee
ee
ee
ea
ea
ea
69

ey
ey
sh
ie
ie
ie
e e e-e
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Revision
71

Read out the following to your child. Please use your own words if you prefer.
These two pictures are the same.
Here, it is a lollipop.
But here, it is a balloon.
This is a sound picture
for ‘oe’, like in ‘flow’.
ow
But here it represents
‘ow’, like in ‘brown’.
ow
Sometimes the same sound picture can represent different sounds.
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Read out the following to your child. Please use your own words if you prefer.
Code Detective: can you spot a sound picture on the next
pages that is also the sound picture for a different sound?
Which different sounds does the sound picture represent?
Can you show on a piece of paper one word for each different
sound?
Then see if your Mum or Dad knows the answer!
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Which different sounds does this sound picture represent?
ow
74

c l ow n
ow
ow
ow
ow
ow
75

This sound picture represents more than one sound.
Which different sounds does the sound picture represent?
o
76

ll
77

Detective, have you detected that when there is le at the end of a word,
you may have to read a, e, i, o, u as ae, ee, ie, oe, ue? And have you
discovered that you may only do this when there is no more than one
sound between the a and the le, the e and the le, and so on.
ae a le
ee e le
ie i le
oe o le
ue u le
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t a b le
a (-le)
k e b le
t i t le
e (-le)
i (-le)
n o b le
o (-le)
b
u
g
le
u (-le)
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Detective, you are amazing! So clever!
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