Island Adventure

Island Adventure focuses on alternative vowel spellings.

Jack and his little sister, Snub, are visiting Gran and Grandpa. Gran is a wildlife photographer and she takes Jack out to take pictures of the local animals on the remote island where she lives. An accident brings them closer together, but a subsequent calamity will be the start of an exciting quest, changing all their lives forever.

The Island Adventure series helps pupils aged 8–14+ who are struggling with alternative vowel spellings, focussing on alternative spellings for the vowel sounds: ae, ee, oe, er, ow/oi, oo, ie, or, air, and ar.

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