These catchup resources give students a firm foundation in reading and writing knowledge and skills so that they are ready to access the 11-14 National Curriculum for English.
With a focus on the essential skills and knowledge of reading and writing, the self-contained units are divided into two sections:
- Reading includes: making inferences and referring to evidence, using knowledge of figurative language, text structure, presentation, and learning new vocabulary through reading
- Writing includes: using grammar, vocabulary and spelling accurately, summarising and organising ideas, and writing for a wide range of audiences and purposes

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school. 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 200 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hodder Education .