Use these highly-targeted intervention tasks to develop your students' reading skills at an individual level, with a star system to help you tailor your teaching and track students' progress.

Based on our Upgrade English online resources and fully aligned to the new Key Stage 3 Curriculum, this teacher's book provides sharply-focused intervention tasks, with sets of teacher notes and accompany student worksheets to improve student's reading.

- Helps you demonstrate your students' progress using our straightforward 1-4 star system to identify the level they are working at as they move through tasks

- Enables you to easily tailor resources to differing students' needs and ensure that they are developing their skills in the areas that need the most work

- Provides the flexibility to set tasks to groups or individuals, with worksheets that students can complete independently either in class or at home

- Conveniently works with any assessment system so that you can easily identity and target areas for improvement

- Is fully aligned to the new Key Stage 3 Curriculum and ensures that your students are ready for GCSE

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