This book is part of a book series called Scholastic Teaching Strategies .

This book has been graded for interest at 9-17 years. 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 160 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Scholastic Teaching Resources (Theory and Practice) .