Easter Hunt At The Beach

In Easter Hunt at the Beach, Quinn and Jane are enjoying their Easter holiday at the Bells Beach Camp when disaster strikes. Dad’s bag has vanished, along with the passports and wallets, and it happened while Quinn was meant to be keeping watch. With a bit of teamwork and the help of their clever beagle Spot, the siblings uncover an unlikely thief with an eye for fancy things.

It is the third book in the Story Spellers Collection: Long Vowel Team Series. This decodable story highlights 128 high-utility words that use the grapheme "ea" to spell the long /ē/ sound.

Do you ever wonder how to teach students when to use the various spellings that can be used to spell the long sound /ē/ made by the vowel 'e': 'ee', 'ea', 'y', 'ie', 'ei', 'ey' or 'e consonant e' (e-e). Does your student struggle to differentiate between homophones, such as "seem" vs. "seam," “piece vs. peace,” "meet" vs. "meat" vs. "mete" or "seen" vs "scene"?

This book helps students who struggle with spelling confusing long vowel spelling patterns to learn spellings by associating focus words with a fun storyline.
The text has been carefully written to ensure that words with the long /ē/ sound using spelling patterns other than 'ea' (such as: 'ee', 'y', 'ie', 'ei', 'ey', 'e-e') are not included anywhere in the text. This helps avoid confusion while students become familiar with the focus words in the story. It is a simple and effective way to teach students who struggle with spelling to differentiate between homophones and choose the correct spelling patterns.

The books in the Story Spellers collection have been developed to support orthographic mapping of focus words. Each book in the Long Vowel Team Series focuses on one or two related long-vowel team spellings and includes multiple target words spelt with the same pattern that school-aged learners will encounter when reading and spelling.

Students with learning difficulties who struggle to differentiate multiple spelling patterns for long vowels will benefit from this book. The intention is for children to associate the focus words with the story and subsequently become fluent in encoding and decoding those words.

Each book in this collection comes with educator resources to use alongside the story, reinforcing the spelling patterns covered. With lively illustrations, gentle humour, and high-utility words woven naturally into the adventure, children practise focus words, strengthen reading fluency, and build spelling confidence through meaningful story experience.