This book helps you to support, embed and extend learning for students as they work on the accompanying student book Boost your Progress in Reading and Writing.

It contains:

- Teaching notes and answers to all the activities in the student book

- Suggestions for tailoring the activities to suit the needs of your students

- 'Next Steps' ideas for extension and follow-on activities that will stimulate and challenge more able students

- Meaningful assessment advice and activities so that your students can continue to make progress

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 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 112 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hodder Education .

Alan Howe is an experienced classroom teacher, and author of books on English and Literacy.