Gus loves the hedgehog in his nan's garden - but what happens to Huffkin in the winter? This beautiful fiction story was written by Pip Jones.

Gus loves the hedgehog in his nan's garden - but what happens to Huffkin in the winter? This beautiful fiction story was written by Pip Jones.

Blue/Band 4 offers longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language. Non-fiction uses signs, labels and diagrams.

This book focuses on adjacent consonants with long vowel phonemes.

Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.

Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

This book is part of a book series called Collins Big Cat Phonics For Letters And Sounds .

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 16 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Pip Jones is a freelance journalist. Squishy McFluff won the inaugural Greenhouse Funny Prize in 2012 and Pip is delighted to bring him to the page at Faber. Pip lives in London with her husband, two daughters and a real imaginary cat.