National Geographic Primary Readers is a high-interest series of beginning reading books that have been developed in consultation with education experts. The books pair magnificent National Geographic photographs with lively text by skilled children's book authors across four reading levels.

Readers will be inspired by the amazing story of Helen Keller in this informative biography. They will learn all about her life, her achievements, and the challenges she faced along the way.

Level 3: Becoming independent
Best suited to kids who are ready for complex sentences and more challenging vocabulary, but still draw on occasional support from adults. They are ideal for readers of Purple and Gold books.

This book is part of a book series called National Geographic Readers .

This book has been graded for interest at 6-7 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 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 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by HarperCollins Publishers .

National Geographic Kids collaborates to put forth fun and interesting non-fiction for kids. Kitson Jazynka is an award-winning freelance writer and children's author. Her work appears regularly in National Geographic Kids , American Girl , and Young Rider magazines, as well as the Washington Post 's KidsPost section. A lifelong horse lover and equestrian, Jazynka currently lives with her family including her two young sons in Washington, DC, and keeps a horse at a stable nearby.