Did you know that: just 12 words make up one quarter of the words we read and write?; or that 100 words make up one half of all printed vocabulary? It is easier for children to learn to read if they are taught these words first. That's exactly what the key words reading scheme aims to do.

 

This book features in the following series: Key Words, Ladybird Keyword Stories .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels. This reading book uses the key words method. This method involves a whole word approach. Children learn words by their entire shape, rather than through their constituent letters, in much the same way that they recognise that the Macdonalds sign reads as Macdonalds. They receive lists of words that must be rote learned and then reading books use a high proportion of those words in their stories. This method is especially useful in enabling children to read words that do not conform to frequently observed spelling patters, such as yacht. It is also useful for words which appear very frequently and glue stories together, for example function words such as the, my; whilst some of these may be decodable, immediate recognition from rote learning can allow a child to make quicker progress through a story than through decoding alone.

There are 56 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Puffin Books is the children's imprint of British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.