First class fiction at an appropriate interest level, the books in "TreeTops More All Stars Pack 3A" provide: quality books by top authors and illustrators to challenge and motivate your children, including the retelling of a classic story; the right level of content, at an appropriate interest level for Year 2 children; and careful text levelling to gradually build stamina. Also available are flexible "Teaching Notes" to provide support for much more than guided reading. The other titles in "TreeTops More All Stars Pack 3A" are: "Huge and Horrible Beast", "Dancing the Night Away", "Mary-Anne and the Cat Baby", "Duperball", and "Dick Whittington". They are available in a "Pack of six" (ISBN 0-19-919616-8) and a "Class Pack" (ISBN 0-19-919615-X), containing 6 of each title.

 

This book is part of a book series called Oxford Reading Tree .

This book is aimed at children in primary school. 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 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Oxford University Press .

Martin Waddell is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest living writers of books for children. He has won many awards for his work, including the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2004.