This book is part of a book series called J-B Ed-Ready-To-Use Activities .

This book is aimed at the following children: primary school, 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 160 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Pearson Higher Education .

Jack Umstatter, master English teacher with over 25 years' experience, is a multiple winner of the Teacher of the Year Award. He currently teaches in the Cold Cprings Barbor School District of New York. He is the author of numerous teacher resources, including Grammar Grabbers! (2000), Brain Games! (1996), and Writing Skills Curriculum Library (1999) and other practical teachers resources published by The Center for Applied Research in Education.