. 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 28 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Scholastic US .

Laura Robb, M. S. Ed. , is an author, teacher, coach, and speaker, with more than 40 years of teaching and coaching in grades 4 8. She coaches teachers and works in classrooms three to four months a year. For long?term professional study projects, Robb works with those students who need the most support from teachers. A keynote and featured speaker at conferences, she leads workshops all over the United States and in Canada. Robb has written more than 25 books on literacy. She also writes articles for educational journals, posts on a variety of blogs, and publishes four newsletters a year for teachers on her website. Robb's goal is to reach all learners by supporting teachers.