Creating Unstoppable Readers

Welcome to Rhino Readers

Take your children from decoding to fluency with our Rhino Readers books. Written by teachers to perfectly
complement your children’s phonics journey, this exciting collection will grow to create the perfect reading
scheme, helping you to create confident, enthusiastic and independent readers.

What can you expect from Rhino Readers?

A growing library of phonics-led books, fully A high quality range of books for 21st century
aligned with Twinkl’s systematic synthetic readers that reflects the world today and
phonics scheme, to support your teaching promotes diversity.
of reading.
Covers all the statutory requirements from the
Books and accompanying resources produced national curriculum for English and the revised
to the highest standards developed by a EYFS 2021 Framework, as well as guidance set
specialist team of teachers, designers and out in the DfE Reading Framework on the
illustrators. teaching of phonics.

An exciting range of topics, themes and genres –

featuring well-known and new characters, and
storylines that children will love. This overview is your guide and should cover
any questions you have. If there is something you
need help with then please don’t hesitate
to get in touch.

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A Growing Library
Inspiring a generation of unstoppable readers
Rhino Readers is an innovative and exciting collection of engaging
phonics-led books. The collection will cover phonics Phases 1 to 6 and
will grow to create the perfect reading scheme.

Powered by Twinkl, you know these books have all been created by an
experienced and passionate team of teachers, designers and
illustrators to meet the needs of your children.
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A growing library of phonics-led books, fully 3a

aligned with Twinkl’s systematic synthetic

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phonics scheme, to support your teaching 6c

of reading.

A high quality range of books for 21st century

readers that reflects the world today and 5b

promotes diversity.

An exciting range of topics, themes and genres

– featuring well-known and new characters,
and storylines that children will love.

Teachers say...

‘These books will be a huge hit with

our early readers. Thank you!’

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A Wide Variety of Genres
Books for 21st century readers Teachers say...

Rhino Readers’ phonics-led books are written to capture the ‘These books will be a huge hit with
our early readers. Thank you!’
imagination and interests of all children.

You’ll find 21st century stories and non-fiction books for 21st
century readers, spanning a range of topics, themes and genres
and featuring characters and storylines that children will love.
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Fully Decodable
Phonetically decodable books with a difference
The Rhino Readers team has paid close attention to phonics
progression, creating books that support children as they move
through each level. This ensures your children are reading books
that contain only the sounds and tricky words that they have A dog can run to get
the ball.
already learnt.

Each level (or phase) has been divided into three sublevels No sock! 2

(a, b and c) to enable children to progress and build confidence 1

Level 2b The Sock

as they go. Sounds, tricky words and common exception words A dog can sit and wa
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are introduced systematically and gradually. its tur n.

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Level 3b All Sorts of
Each book gives children the opportunity to rehearse, consolidate
and apply their phonics learning in their reading. As the sun
began to gl
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Fairy Glen
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around Kit
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Before
Reading Say the sounds. Read the focus words.
If your child needs help, point to the picture and The dots and dashes show where one sound is made by one or
read the word to them. more letters.

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phew catch kelpie

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bare core “There really
are fairies in
cried Sam. Scotland!”
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Twinkl Phonics
The perfect companion
Phonics
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Level 2

Like you, we understand how important it is that a phonics scheme 3b

and reading scheme work together to support children’s reading Th e

development. That’s why we have ensured that all our books align
with Twinkl Phonics’ all-encompassing, fully-progressive
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cast of engaging characters.

Not familiar with Twinkl Phonics?

No problem! Click below to explore our phonics scheme further.
Twinkl Phonics is our comprehensive systematic synthetic phonics
programme (SSP), covering all the statutory requirements outlined
in the 2014 national curriculum and revised 2021 EYFS framework.

Click here to explore

wT i n k l P h o n i c s

Teachers say...

‘Brilliant reading books to accompany and

extend the Twinkl Phonics scheme!’

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The Rhino Readers App
Discover Rhino Readers for yourself with our easy-to-use app
Take the whole library with you wherever you go with the Rhino
Readers app. Get access to all the latest exciting books as they
are released each month.

With a Twinkl Ultimate subscription or an in-app membership,

you’ll receive access to the growing collection of reading scheme
books on the Rhino Readers app.

The user profiles and content controls allow specific books to be

selected from the library for each child to read at their own pace.
The app remains fully accessible offline, making Rhino Readers Level 3a Pop and Bang

truly unstoppable!

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Clear Progression

Each level reinforces all the focus graphemes and tricky

words/CEWs from previous levels.

Twinkl Rhino
Phonics Readers Focus Graphemes Tricky Words/CEWs Rhino Readers Books
Level Level
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k None
2a 2b
Reception

On the
4-5 years

Level 2

2c

2b
e, u, r, h, b, f, l, ck, ss, ll, ff to, the, I, no, go Bus
Other adjacent double consonants, e.g. egg Th Click to explore our
Ruge
full range of fiction
Level 2 consolidation All previous words and non-fiction titles
2c
at this level.

j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, th, ng he, she, we, me, be, was
3a 3a
Reception

3c
4-5 years

Level 3

ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, oo, ar, or, ur, my, you, they, here, all, are
3b ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er on the
Click to explore our
Run
full range of fiction
Level 3 consolidation All previous words and non-fiction titles
3c
at this level.

CVCC and CCVC words said, so, have, like, come, some
4a Digraphs and trigraphs without adjacent
4a

consonants A
Trip
in a
Reception

Rocket
4-5 years

Level 4

4c

Words with adjacent consonants including Level 3 were, there, little, one, do, when, out, what
4b vowel digraphs/trigraphs
CVCC and CCVC words
Click to explore our
Further adjacent consonant combinations learned All previous words full range of fiction
4c in Level 4, including three-letter sequences like and non-fiction titles
‘strip’ at this level.

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Clear Progression
Twinkl Rhino
Phonics Readers Focus Graphemes Tricky Words/CEWs Rhino Readers Books
Level Level
New spellings ay, oy, ie, ea, a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e, ou could, should, would, want, oh, their, Mr, Mrs, love,
Long vowel sounds a, e, i, o, u your, people, looked, called, asked, water, where,
5a ‘ch’ saying /c/ (e.g. school) who, why, thought, through
5b
5a

,
Mr Ga le s
‘ch’ saying /sh/ (e.g. chef) ,
Jay s Day Ga rden
at th e Park
soft c, soft g work, house, many, laughed, because, different, any,
5-6 years

Level 5

New spellings ir, ew, ue, aw/au, ow/oe, wh eye, friend, also, once, live, please, coming, Monday,
Year 1

5c

5b ‘y’ saying /ee/ Tuesday, Wednesday, brother, more, before

Do
‘ea’ saying /e/ Elephants
Wear Sun
‘ph’ saying /f/ Cream?

‘ie’ saying /ee/ January, February, April, July, scissors, beautiful, Click to explore our
‘tch’ saying /ch/ castle, treasure, door, floor, bought, favourite, full range of fiction
5c ‘are’/’ear’ saying /air/ autumn, gone, colour, other, does, talk, two, know and non-fiction titles
‘ore’ saying /or/ at this level.

‘y’ saying /igh/ four, eight, world, poor, great, break, steak
‘dge’/’ge’ saying /j/
‘gn’ saying /n/
6a ‘kn’ saying /n/
6a

6c

‘wr’ saying /r/

6a

‘le’ saying /l/

A
‘eer’ saying /ear/ busy, clothes, whole, listen, build, earth, delicious, Rubbish
6-7 years

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Level 6

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Year 2

‘ey’ saying /ee/ fruit, learn, search, famous, shoe, pretty, neighbour,
‘mb’ saying /m/ (e.g lamb, climb) group, England, tongue, country, heart, dangerous 6c

6b ‘a’ and ‘al’ saying /or/ (e.g. chalk)

A
‘o’ saying /u/ Ha ndbook
to Life on
Words ending in -ture Ea rt h

‘or’ saying /ur/ (e.g. world, work) special, enough, aunt, father, prove, improve, hour, Click to explore our
‘a’ saying /o/ (e.g. watch, wash) move, sure, sugar, half, quarter, straight, touch, full range of fiction
6c ‘s’ saying /zh/ (e.g. usually) caught, daughter, journey, area, heard, early and non-fiction titles
Words ending in -tion at this level.

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