Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each week of Essential Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable readers are 100% matched to the phonic progression of Essential Letters and Sounds. Essential Letters and Sounds is a systematic synthetic phonics programme validated by the Department for Education. These readers complement your existing decodable readers from OxfordUniversity Press and can be used alongside them to support the teaching of Essential Letters and Sounds. Bats versus Bugs allows children to apply their phonics learning fromReception, Spring 2, Week 2 of Essential Letters and Sounds.