This title presents a phonic-based approach to reading - using letter sounds and blends. It introduces letter formation and letter-sound recognition to help pre-school children get a head-start on classroom skills. It includes: over 35 lively and interactive activities to help develop important skills needed for reading; 60 gold stars to reward and encourage; and, 30 fantastic coloured stickers and badges. It is written by former teacher and current children's non-fiction author Louisa Somerville, with expert teacher and consultant, David Smith. Teachers may photocopy pages free of charge for classroom use. These Phonics books have been specially devised to give children preparing for their first years at school a real head start. Children will learn all about the alphabet, starting with letter formation, basic blending and letter-sound recognition. The activities are designed to stimulate children and demonstrate basic concepts that will be developed in the classroom. The material can be photocopied by parents and teachers to use again and again.

 

This book is part of a book series called Coming Top .

. 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 2016 by Anness Publishing .

Jenny Tulip is a much-loved children's artist, with over 25 years' experience of creating children's books and stationery. Louisa Somerville used to be a primary school teacher, but now has been writing books for children for many years, on a wide range of subjects from activity books and bedtime stories. Jean Williams is a former head teacher with a huge amount of primary educational experience. As a result, she understands the tuition needs of young children. David Smith has been writing history books for adults and children for over thirty years. He has recently written an educational series on the Holocaust and several books on different aspects of the contemporary Middle East. He is also a novelist.