Run, Bun, Run!
Run, Bun, Run!
by ReadRead · 5 min readRun, Bun, run! A funny first book a child can read all by themself: short words to sound out, a refrain to shout, and a bunny who jumps into a pond to catch the sun.
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Here is Bun, a little grey bunny. Here is the sun, and from down in the grass it looks so little. “I can get the sun!” says Bun. Run, Bun, run, up the hill! The sun is up, up, up. Jump, Bun, jump, but Bun can not get it. The sun goes down, down, down, and then, look: the sun is in the pond! Bun jumps in. Splash! It is not the sun. Bun is wet! That night Bun goes to bed, and in the morning up pops the sun, right over Bun’s bed. Bun got the sun!
The new words in this book
The big bright light in the sky. It comes up 10 times, and the paper sun is on the page every time: it rises up, up, up, sticks out its tongue at Bun, goes down at sunset, shows in the pond and pops up in the morning.
Bun is the little bunny in this book. The name comes up 12 times, and Bun is there every time: running up the hill, jumping for the sun, diving into the pond, dripping wet and fast asleep in a tiny bed.
This is a Level 2 decodable reader: almost every word is either a short-vowel word a child can sound out (sun, bun, run, get, got, wet, bed, hill, not) or one of the very first sight words (here, look, said, jump, up, down, little). 95% of the words are at that level; the only harder ones, pond, splash and pops, are shown big in the pictures. The two new words, sun and bun, rhyme and differ only in the first letter, so the child learns to look at the start of the word, and the refrain “Run, Bun, run!” lets a new reader join in from page 3.
Questions to ask while you read
Pause after each spread and ask one question. There are no right answers; the point is to get your child talking.
- 1Who is this? Where does Bun live?
- 2Does the sun look big or little? Can Bun get it?
- 3Can you say it with me? “Run, Bun, run!”
- 4Who is up the hill? Where is the sun now?
- 5Jump! Can Bun get the sun? What does the sun do?
- 6Where does the sun go? What colour is the sky now?
- 7Look in the pond. What can Bun see?
- 8Should Bun jump in? What do you think will happen?
- 9Tap the sun in the pond. Splash! Is it the sun?
- 10Who is in bed? What pops up in the morning?
How hard is this book?
Every short vowel (bed, sun) and the first sight words. A decodable book: 9 words in 10 can be sounded out at this phonics step.
- Dialogue × 2“I can get it!” said Bun.
- Commands × 5Look! A pond!
- Not / no × 2Bun can not get the sun.
- Past tense × 3Bun got the sun!
All 25 words, most used first
the 13 · is 10 · sun 10 · up 6 · run 4 · can 3 · down 3 · get 3 · in 3 · jump 3 · here 2 · hill 2 · i 2 · it 2 · not 2 · pond 2 · said 2 · splash 2 · a · bed · got · little · look · pops · wet
Names don’t count: the picture shows who it is.
Tips for parents
- First time: use Read to me and enjoy the jokes together. Then switch to I can read and let your child read it to you.
- Cover the first letter of sun and bun with your finger, read “un”, then show s or b. Let your child hear the change.
- Every time the book says “Run, Bun, run!”, let your child say it, loud and fast.
- On the pond page, count the splashes together until Bun is dripping wet.