Young children need to recognise the sounds that make up words, whilst having fun with language. The aim of this book, is to do just that. Through the medium of songs and rhymes, it aims to explore vocabulary, pattern, alliteration, phonemes, digraphs and consonant clusters.

In order to achieve the goals set out in the National Literacy Framework document for word level work, young children need plenty of opportunities to explore, to become aware of, and to learn to recognise the sounds that make up words, whilst having fun with language. The aim of this book, is to do just that. Through the medium of songs and rhymes, it aims to develop an awareness of onset and time. There are songs for exploring vocabulary, pattern, alliteration, phonemes, digraphs and consonant clusters. In addition there are teacher's notes with ideas for activities to support the songs. Helen MacGregor has written Listening to Music" and "Tom Thumb's Musical Maths" while Kaye Umasky is known for her "Three Singing Pigs, Three Rapping Rats" and "Phantasmagoria"."

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Kaye Umansky is the much-published and popular children's writer and author of several music titles for A&C Black. Helen MacGregor, co-author of Music Express, is Music Adviser for Kent. Peter Bailey has been illustrating books for more than thirty-five years and has worked with many of today's best known authors, including Philip Pullman, Allan Ahlberg, Michael Morpurgo and Joan Aiken. He lives near Liverpool with his wife, Sian, who is also an illustrator. Kaye Umansky is very well known for her PONGWIFFY stories (Puffin) and other