When there is trouble in space, Space Hamster always comes to the rescue. But one day, a big monster flies towards Earth, determined to gobble everything up. Space Hamster will have to use all his powers to keep the Earth safe! These are beginner reading books for children who have been learning synthetic phonics in school. It helps your child learn to read at home without contradicting schoolwork. These exciting superhero adventures are ideal for building confidence in learning to read. Special 'Superhero Secrets' puzzle pages help build comprehension skills. It includes stickers and a reward chart to keep learning fun.

 

This book is part of a book series called Superhero Phonic Readers .

. 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 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Mandy Ross has written lots of children's books, as well as poetry and a couple of plays.