This book is part of a book series called Popular Rewards Early Readers .

This book has been graded for interest at 7+ years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading book uses the Synthetic phonics method. (This can also be referred to as 'blended phonics' or 'inductive phonics'). A phonics 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. In Synthetic Phonics, children are taught to sound and blend from the start of reading tuition. Children are taught a small group of letter sounds and then shown how these can be co-articulated to pronounce unfamiliar words. Other groups of letters are then taught and the children blend them in order to pronounce new words. The pronunciation of the word is discovered through sounding and blending, and spelling by mapping sounds to letters. Consonant blends that cannot be read by blending are explicitly taught.

There are 36 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Award Publications Ltd .

Jon Davis worked in 3D animation before switching to children's book illustration full time. He is the illustrator of several picture books, including Stuck with the Blooz by Caron Levis. Small Blue and the Deep Dark Night is the first book which he both wrote and illustrated. Jon lives with his family in London. www. jonsmind. com