Comics for Phonics are the fun new way to reward young readers. Every comic is 100% phonically decodable, so kids can reinforce all the literacy skills they learn at school without even noticing it!

Every comic in Comics for Phonics is jam packed with stunning artwork, cool characters and gripping stories that will get kids reaching for the bookshelf.

This book features in the following series: Bug Club, Comics For Phonics .

This book is aimed at children in primary school. 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 Synthetic phonics method. (This can also be referred to as 'blended phonics' or 'inductive phonics'). A phonics 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. In Synthetic Phonics, children are taught to sound and blend from the start of reading tuition. Children are taught a small group of letter sounds and then shown how these can be co-articulated to pronounce unfamiliar words. Other groups of letters are then taught and the children blend them in order to pronounce new words. The pronunciation of the word is discovered through sounding and blending, and spelling by mapping sounds to letters. Consonant blends that cannot be read by blending are explicitly taught.

There are 8 pages in this book. This is a comic book/graphic novel. This book was published 2012 by Pearson Education Limited .

CELIA WARREN's children's poems and stories have appeared in numerous anthologies; been broadcast on BBC Schools TV and Radio; used in verse-speaking festivals and some have been set to music. Celia has titles with a number of educational publishers.