National Geographic Primary Readers pair magnificent National Geographic photographs with engaging text by skilled authors to help your child learn to read. Developed by education experts, this series of books for beginner readers is spread across four levels: Early Reader, Becoming Fluent, Becoming Independent and Independent Reader.

Storms can be scary - but after learning more about them, they're not so scary after all! Why does the wind howl? Why does it rain for days? How do rivers overflow? From thunder and lightning to monsoons, hurricanes and tornadoes, the fascinating facts and brilliant photos in this carefully levelled National Geographic Reader will blow kids away!

Level 2: Becoming Fluent books are a great match for kids who are developing reading stamina and enjoy a longer book. They are ideal for readers of Green, Orange and Turquoise book bands for guided reading. For another National Geographic Level 2 Reader, try Wild Cats (9780008266585).

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

This book has been graded for interest at 5-7 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 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Miriam Busch Goin is a writer who has previously worked as a teacher and a landscape architect. She is the author of National Geographic Readers: Storms .