Exam Board: SQA
Level: Higher
Subject: English
First Teaching: September 2014
First Exam: Summer 2015

This book (which is photocopiable within the purchasing institution) accompanies the student book of the same name. It is a brand new edition of a bestselling title, updated for the newest CfE Higher English course, and particularly directed at offering support for Paper 1: Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation. It provides detailed answers and suggested marking instructions to the student book material, and gives you the support and advice you will need to succeed in this element of Higher English

- Become more secure in your knowledge of the English language and in your reading skills
- Apply those reading skills in learning how to answer questions on close reading
- Practise answering questions in the accompanying student book

This book has been graded for interest at 16+ 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 64 pages in this book. This is a study guide book. This book was published 2015 by Hodder Education .

Mary Firth and Andrew Ralston are hugely successful authors of English books for Scotland. they both teach at Hutchesons' Grammar School.