Gia the giant loves to knit but everything she makes is too big for the villagers and they do not appreciate her talents. One cold December morning, deep snow covers the villiage and her knitting turns out to be much more useful than everybody thought. The Knitting Giant is part of the Rocket Phonics range from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics builds a firm foundation in word reading through fresh and fully decodable phonics books for Pink A to Orange band. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding.

Reading age: 5-6 years

This book features in the following series: Rising Stars Reading Planet, Rocket Phonics .

This book has been graded for interest at 5-6 years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 20 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Rising Stars UK Ltd .

Frances Cross is a widely experienced author, who has published books for adults and children. The first of her childrens novel's from the Blobber trilogy 'The Boy, the Witch and the Blobber', and 'The Mystery of the Green Elephant' were published by Ransom in 2006. Alison Milford is an educational writer and childrens author, with a considerable list of published books, ranging from fiction and poetry, to more educational titles and teachers resources. Before she became a writer she was a primary school teacher.